Insurance Companies Steering Car Owners to DRP Shops?

Insurance companies are steering customers to bad body shops for auto body and collision repair.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• insurance
• DRP
• steering
• auto
• body
• repair
• consumer
• rights

[gurlface]

If you are a shop with more that one DRP contract, your dick sucking lipstick is showing. You are ruining the industry.

[bigtiii]

Tell that to the judge when the shop gets sued for an improper repair. Judge will say (and State Farm or whatever ins co) "you fixed the car".

I don't work off insurance company "claims sheets" (I refuse to call them estimates) I work off my own damage analysis that I write after the vehicle is disassembled.

State Farm touts they pay better than any other insurance company too. To that I say BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

not by a mile. Even progressive pays better than SF in my shop.

[bigtiii]

@deege52 It works in our shop everyday and we're the "only one" that does it. Anything else is just an excuse. The only thing we should copy is a business that charges for what it does and charges the only person they can charge....the vehicle owner. Doing that fixed our issues.

[bigtiii]

@txr0ckabilly but the insurance company doesn't fix the car, the shop does and is liable for 100% of the repairs. DRP shops are the problem. No one is twisting their arm to sign up, they are begging to sign up. Let's keep it real. I've never been to a single auto body related meeting, seminar et al where one shop told me they were forced to sign a DRP agreement. At our shop we're responsible and we fix the car and get paid..........period.

[oneknothead]

everyone in the insurance industry are outwright crooks and liers .... everyone

... and the worst ones are the religious ones .... amen

[HellonReels1]

Could you guys call my shop and tell them this. The retards think they can't get any work without DRPs. Yet our shop has no work. Go figure.

[bigtiii]

No. The last thing we need to do is involve insurer interference. CHARGE THE CUSTOMER. That is what we should do. That's what I do. I get paid. Insurers know that I know who owes me (vehicle owner) and they know who I'll charge (vehicle owner) and therefore the vast majority reimburse their insureds for the repairs.

We must avoid anything that resembles the medical side. Health insurance contracts are VASTLY different than prop and casualty. I use the supermarket analogy often myself. :)

[deege52]

In a perfect world, if the majority of shop owners/managers did this, it would work. Unfortunately, our industry has long since whored itself to the insurance industry. We should copy the medical industry and bill for every aspirin & ass wipe etc. that is used and stand firm.Let the customer "co-pay". I keep going to the supermarket and demand that I only pay for certain items in my cart but they just don't seam to grasp the concept