Skip to main content Skip to office menu Skip to footer
Capital IconMinnesota Legislature

Office of the Revisor of Statutes

Key: (1) language to be deleted (2) new language

CHAPTER 80--S.F.No. 1542

An act

relating to commerce; regulating conduct of an insurer in collision cases;

amending Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 72B.092, subdivision 1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2006, section 72B.092, subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Prohibitions on insurer.

No adjuster or insurer, director, officer, broker, agent, attorney-in-fact, employee, or other representative of an insurer shall in collision cases:

(a) limit the freedom of an insured or claimant to choose the shop;

(b) require that an insured or claimant present the claim or the automobile for loss adjustment or inspection at a "drive-in" claim center or any other similar facility solely under the control of the insurer;

(c) engage in boycotts, intimidation or coercive tactics in negotiating repairs to damaged motor vehicles which they insure or are liable to claimants to have repaired; deleted text begin ordeleted text end

(d) attempt to secure, except in an emergency, the insured's or claimant's signature authorizing the party securing the signature to act in behalf of the insured or claimant in selection of a repair shop facilitynew text begin ;new text end

new text begin (e) adjust a damage appraisal of a repair shop when the extent of damage is in dispute without conducting a physical inspection of the vehicle; or new text end

new text begin (f) specify the use of a particular vendor for the procurement of parts or other materials necessary for the satisfactory repair of the vehicle. This clause does not require the insurer to pay more than a reasonable market price for parts of like kind and quality in adjusting a claimnew text end .

Presented to the governor May 14, 2007

Signed by the governor May 17, 2007, 3:35 p.m.

Official Publication of the State of Minnesota
Revisor of Statutes