MOTOR INSURANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 292, 10 December 1925, Page 10

MOTOR INSURANCE.

ANOMALIES IN POLICIES. PROTEST BY AUTOMOBILE CLUB. Anomalies in the present comprehensive policies on motor cars were discussed at a meeting of the Wellington Automobile Club, it being decided to forward the following letter to the Underwriters' Association:— >"A a meeting of my executive the complaints from members were discussed with regard to certain clauses in motor comprehensive policies, and I am directed to ask your council if it would not be possible to amend the clause which specifies that a damaged vehicle must be removed at the to the nearest garage or railway station. A case was quoted where recently it cost £30 to remove a 'ditched' car to the railway station. It was also mentioned that if a car went over a precipice into a river, thus being practically lost, it appears that the insurance company could insist upon it, being recovered and removed to a garage at the insurer's expense before a claim i would be considered. ' , "My executive is resisting a strong,' i movement towards co-operative insur-! . ance, feeling that thie is a matter better . handled by companies, and if one or , two anomalies such as the item under. . notice were rectified, the present service as rendered by joint stock companies would be all sufficient. If my executive I is able to report to its large membership that this hardship has been amelio- , rated, it would go a long way towards . averting the co-operative competition that must otherwise inevitably come." i