Insurers Offer Some Info on Totaled Vehicles to Fight Title Fraud

The National Automobile Dealers Association—a leader in the fight for total-loss vehicle disclosure—today applauded the efforts of the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) for creating a new Web-based service with total-loss data for consumers.
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The NICB’s VINCheck allows consumers to check five vehicles per day—one VIN at a time—for reports of severe damage, flood, or theft. The Web site includes mostly insured vehicles, but lacks access to the records of self-insured vehicles, rental fleets and insurers who are not NICB members.

This information, available to consumers via a limited Web-database, gives consumers the ability to check whether a vehicle has been severely wrecked, flooded or stolen. NADA continues to seek further transparency—through support of total-loss legislation in Congress—by urging insurers to make this same total-loss information commercially accessible to vehicle history providers so that dealers, vehicle wholesalers, auctioneers, and remarketers of used cars can provide another layer of protection for consumers.

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NICB’s VINCheck is a service provided to the public to assist in determining if a vehicle has been reported as stolen, but not recovered, or has been reported as a previously declared total loss vehicle by cooperating NICB members. To perform a search a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is required. A maximum of 5 VINCheck searches can be conducted within a 24 hour period.

Source: NADA/NICB

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