Amendment Strips Indiana Consumers Of Right To Assign Benefits To Body Shops

“That largely explains it,” Insurance Institute of Indiana and State Farm lobbyist Jon Zarich told a state House committee Feb. 21 in presenting an amendment at least one of them hadn’t seen. But his summary of the amended Senate Bill 164 omitted any mention that the proposed language would effectively strip away auto insurance policyholders’ right to assign insurance benefits to body shops. The issue never came up in the House Insurance Committee hearing Feb. 21 before the committee voted 12-0 in favor of the language backed by Zarich and the Property Casualty Insurance Association of America.