The nation's largest auto insurer, State Farm, is sending letters to about 32,000 registered owners of improperly titled vehicles suspected to remain in use. The insurer says it made "mistakes" disposing of salvage between June 1997 and 2002 allowing a small percentage of autos it acquired during ...[MORE]
To help prevent the undisclosed sale of flood cars to the public, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) will be placing a special team of people in the Gulf states heavily hit by Hurricane Katrina. Their responsibility will be to identify and catalog cars that were injured creating what will be known as the Katrina Registry. The announcement made in a NICB press release (link no longer available) dated September 11, 2005 says the project is expected to take six months to one year to ...[MORE]
Much has been written regarding the affects of Hurricane Katrina on our nation and its economy. One informative article warns that consumers should be conscious of the fact that flood-damaged cars and trucks will soon be hitting salvage yards all across the nation. What does this mean to you? If your car or truck is damaged in an accident, regardless of where you live, it is possible that your insurance company or its network repair shop will try to convince you that recycled parts from Katrina cars in your neighborhood junkyard are really not contaminated and you should allow them to be used on your car to hold down repair costs. Don’t believe it. Learn more by reading this article: Beware of Salvage Parts From Hurricane Katrina Flood Cars
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