Safe Collision Repairs

Get Your Head Out of the Sand

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:17:00 PST

This article first ran in BodyShop Business / August 2006 / pages 42-44. While some of the information is specific to the laws in the writer's home state of Illinois, the bulk of the material applies to dealings between insurers and repair shops that would be applicable in all geographic locales. The meat of the article boils down to this statement: Unless an insurance company chooses the �repair� option in the insurance contract � making it fully liable for its repair choices � it has no legal right to be involved in the repair process ...[MORE]

Poor Quality Collision Repairs Alters Timing of Air Bag Deployment

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:19:00 PST

Attention Personal Injury Attorneys: Structural repair of an auto is risky because the timing of future air bag deployment can be altered, leaving occupants less protected in a crash than the car maker intended. If a technician does not restore a vehicle to its pre-accident crushability, the shape of the crash pulse may change. This may fool the sensor into deploying the air bag too soon or too late. [MORE]

An Open Letter to Personal Injury Attorneys in OH, KY & WV

Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:33:00 PST

There are many reasons why attorneys should be anxious to partner with us at Safe Collision Repairs. But most importantly, our services allow lawyers to obtain documentation about the true measure of physical damages to an auto, which in turn helps them substantiate their client�s claims of serious bodily injury. We would love to add you to the growing list of firms which utilize our services. If you have questions after reading through some of the material on the website and would like us to visit your office for a personal one-on-one consultation, just give us a call. We would be privileged to accommodate you! [MORE]

Diminished Value And Leased Vehicles: Do Leased Cars Really Suffer Less from Collision Damage?

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:19:00 PST

Insurers often have difficulty (or pretend to have difficulty) understanding who should be the recipient of diminished value claims proceeds when a vehicle is leased as opposed to owned by a claimant. They even go so far at times as to assert that neither the lessee nor lessor should be entitled to compensation and thus refuse to pay. In this article, Ohio based lawyer, Erica Eversman, clears up the confusion and helps us understand that diminished value IS recoverable on leased vehicles. [MORE]