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Insurers Win Right to Recommend Repair Shops in Ontario Court Case

December 30, 1999 By CollisionWeek Editor

Toronto to spend $50,000 on appeal

The Hamilton, Ontario-based Collision Industry Action Group (CIAG) reports that insurers have won the right to recommend repair facilities.

Insurance companies have the right to recommend their repair shops to an insured. However the insurance company does not require that the insured use the recommended shop.

With these words, an Ontario Court of Justice judge in Toronto upheld a legal challenge of the City of Toronto towing by-law.

The legal challenge launched by Allstate Insurance, The General Accident Group and Progressive Casualty Insurance sought to declare as invalid a by- law restriction that prohibited

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