Current through Acts 2023-2024, ch. 272
Section 632.375 - Motor vehicle repair practices; restriction on specifying vendor(1) SCOPE. This section applies to every insurer that issues or delivers in this state a motor vehicle insurance policy that covers repairs to a motor vehicle registered or principally garaged in this state.(2) PROHIBITED PRACTICES.(a)No insurer may require that, as a condition of the coverage specified in sub. (1), repairs to a motor vehicle must be made by a particular contractor or repair facility. For purposes of this section, a consumer has the right to select the motor vehicle repair facility of his or her choice.(b) No insurer may fail to initiate and conclude with due dispatch an investigation of a claim for repairs to a motor vehicle on the basis of whether the repairs will be made by a particular contractor or repair facility.(3) INAPPLICABILITY TO GLASS REPAIR. Section 632.37, rather than this section, applies to the repair or replacement of motor vehicle glass under a motor vehicle insurance policy.Added by Acts 2015 ch, 93,s 1, eff. 11/13/2015.