Insurance News - Friday, March 1, 2013

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Friday, March 1, 2013:

• IBC met with the NDP today to discuss auto insurance premiums and initiatives that can reduce rates including implementing anti-fraud measures, implementing reforms to FSCO DR system and revising the catastrophic impairment definition.
• Andrea Horwath says she had a productive meeting with industry leaders but warns of election if auto insurance premiums aren’t cut.
• Auto insurance battle under way in the North Carolina legislature as insurers look to opt out of rate making process administered by their Rate Bureau.
• Check out Shepstone v. Cook, an Ontario Superior Court decision dealing with the verbal threshold. The Court ruled that shoulder & low back pain was not a permanent serious impairment.