Insurance News - Thursday, June 27, 2013

Here are the leading auto insurance headlines from ONTARIO AUTO INSURANCE TOPICS ON TWITTER for Thursday, June 27, 2013:

• The Manitoba government will introduce new consumer protection rules for vehicle repair shops effective July 1.
• A U.S. analysts suggests that claims processing in the American P&C industry is inefficient and the industry could reduce claims costs by $36 billion. Claims operations are still extremely labour-intensive, heavily paper-based, and data-rich but information-poor.
• Social media is here to stay so the P&C insurance industry might as well learn to use it.  I've noticed that many insurers are now on Twitter.
• Is it really that easy to hack a car and cause a crash?