Auto Casualty Updates & Trends

The auto insurance industry—and the world at large—has faced no shortage of changes and challenges in 2020. From treatment trends to legislative updates, we’ve had to manage not only a changing business climate, but also industry-altering events that are reshaping auto insurance.

During the 2020 mPower industry conference held in October, Mitchell experts shared several updates and highlighted trends that will impact the auto casualty industry in the coming year.

Below are summaries of their discussions, along with links so you can get all the details.

As a part of the historic Michigan no-fault reform, the new administrative rules for Michigan utilization review went into effect on July of 2020. The industry is still waiting for the final version of these rules and clarification on some of the details introduced in the reform, including the provider appeal process.

Looking ahead, the new Michigan fee schedule is set to go into effect for care rendered on or after July 2, 2021 and there is a new bill, HB5858, in the Michigan House of Representatives that we have our eye on, which would revise the fee schedule in part for post-acute care for rehabilitation clinics.