Tag Archives: Vehicle Service Contract

Maryland HB1046: Vehicle Service Contract Technical Service Bulletin Restrictions Effective October 1, 2025

Maryland House Bill 1046, signed into law on April 22, 2025, and effective October 1, 2025, protects consumers by prohibiting certain practices, including:

  • Mechanical repair contracts cannot exclude coverage solely because a technical service bulletin identifies the issue
  • Vehicle Service Contract obligors/providers denying claims solely based on repairs being listed in technical service bulletins

This law significantly protects consumers by preventing certain coverage exclusions in vehicle service contracts.

Full Text: https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/2025RS/fnotes/bil_0006/hb1046.pdf

Washington State Service Contract Provider Update

Effective July 27, 2025, Washington State will allow service contract providers to use multiple reimbursement insurance policies (CLIP) as forms of indemnity.

Service contractor providers may now use more than one reimbursement insurance policy (CLIP) as a form of indemnity. A service contract must be insured by only one CLIP. You can’t insure the same service contract on more than one CLIP; however, you can use multiple CLIPs to cover the same category of service contract.

Source Article: https://www.insurance.wa.gov/insurers-regulated-entities/company-registration-and-renewal/company-registration-and-renewal-service-contract-providers

FTC Lawsuit Claims Deceptive Sales Practices and Discrimination at David McDavid Honda of Irving

David McDavid Honda of Irving, a dealership under the umbrella of Asbury Automotive Group, is at the center of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lawsuit alleging deceptive sales practices and discrimination.

Full Article: https://www.irvingweekly.com/s/8535/FTC-Lawsuit-Claims-Deceptive-Sales-Practices-and-Discrimination-at-David-McDavid-Honda-of-Irving.php

CarShield settles FTC charges for $10M, to halt celebrity endorsement

Source: https://www.autoremarketing.com/subprime/carshield-settles-ftc-charges-for-10m-to-halt-celebrity-endorsements/

The 15th Annual Extended Warranty & Service Contract Innovations

September 23-25, 2024, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois.

This year’s event takes a deep-dive into new frontiers in extended warranty and service contract innovations!

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Meramec Secure Announces New Relationship with a Leading Insurance Platform

Meramec Secure Adds Homeowner and Automobile P&C Insurance Solutions for D2C Home Warranty and Auto Service Contract Sellers

Chicago, IL, February 12, 2024 – Meramec Secure, a nationwide designer and producer of specialty insurance and service contract solutions, has recently announced a new strategic relationship with a leading insurance platform. 

This relationship provides access to products from multiple property and casualty insurance carriers.  It is designed to generate cross-sales of auto and home insurance coverage for direct-to-consumer auto and home service contract shoppers via automated API, warm transfer, or web-based solutions.

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Vehicle Service and Warranty Lifecycle Summit

Reshaping Your Warranty and Aftercare End-To-End Experiences

October 24 – 25, 2023 | Dearborn, MI

MAPconnected’s Summit unites the Warranty & Aftercare Value Chain and is designed as an annual platform to exchange ideas to optimize costs, enhance customer satisfaction and ensure continuous improvement.

This year’s Summit creates an opportunity to examine key case studies around integrating, analyzing and actioning data by harnessing best-in-class organizational processes and the latest technology innovations. Network with over 200 of your peers, engage with leading tech expo innovators come away with invaluable learnings and easily implementable strategies that will streamline and strengthen your warranty lifecycle roadmap.

Download the latest Brochure for full details:

https://www.mapconnected.com/download-vehicle-service-warranty-lifecycle-summit-brochure-warranty-news/

Portfolio Wins 3rd Straight DCA Diamond

Dealers ranked Portfolio as the nation’s No. 1 reinsurance provider in the 2023 Dealers’ Choice Awards, the company’s third straight Diamond award and 10th category win.


LAKE FOREST, Calif. — Aug. 2, 2023 — For the third straight year and 10th time overall, Portfolio won the first-place Diamond award for Reinsurance & Participation in the annual Dealers’ Choice Awards.

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U.S. Treasury Department Issues Proposed Regulations To Finally Eviscerate Microcaptive Tax Shelters

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has finally regulations to deal with so-called microcaptive transactions.

Microcaptives are, for the most part, insurance companies that attempt to qualify for treatment under section 831(b) of the Internal Revenue Code by way of a shared risk-pool arrangement which only superficially provides risk sharing and risk distribution for tax purposes, and whose real purpose is to provide inflated deductions for the businesses that the microcaptives are insuring.

Read the Full Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jayadkisson/2023/04/11/us-treasury-department-issues-proposed-regulations-to-finally-eviscerate-microcaptive-tax-shelters/

LegalEase Launches iPAT AI Tool for Managing Automotive Warranty Litigation in California

Company to demo product at upcoming MAPConnected warranty roundtable

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (October 4, 2021) — LegalEase Solutions LLC, which provides customized legal solutions for corporations, in-house legal departments and law firms, has launched iPAT for the automotive OEM market. Developed by a team of attorneys and data scientists at LegalEase in partnership with Felix AI, iPAT leverages historical data, artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive analytics to predict case outcomes, value cases and analyze buy-back eligibility of vehicles, to help OEM’s resolve warranty/lemon law claims more accurately, quickly and at a significantly lower cost. 

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