REPAIRS TO CARS
Free Choice Urged (N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 17. Owners of cars damaged in accidents should be free to elect the firm they wanted to make repairs and should not be at the direction of surance assessors, the annual meeting of the Motor-Body Builders’ Industrial Union of Employers was told today.
Claims of victimisation against members of the union by assessors were made by several speakers when the meeting discussed an Auckland remit urging the union to express concern to the Fire and Accident Underwriters’ Association at the practice of some insurance assessor representatives of directing work to repairers of their choice.
If the present situation was permitted to develop, some members could be put out of business, it was said. A delegate said one repairer was told no work would be sent his way unless he took out some sort of insurance. Another said some assessors played one repairer against the other. One speaker said there were many in the industry who would hesitate to give evidence because they feared being victimised.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30393, 18 March 1964, Page 16
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