Car Accident Attorneys Glen Ellyn IL

My lawyer friend told me that all parties involved in the collision repair industry are still trying to get away with all they can because there haven't been enough lawsuits yet. I explored that theory and found he may be right.

By Scott Biggs
11/1/2007

After listening to me for hours during socials and dinner meetings over the past several years, an attorney friend pronounced in all capital letters, “The only thing wrong with the collision repair industry as you describe it is you just haven’t had enough lawsuits yet!” Spoken like the attorney he is, he went on to explain that many more “mature” industries had already gone through a long series of individual and class-action lawsuits that challenged their traditional business practices. As a result, the various parties involved now know their boundaries and seem to stay within them more often than not. His assertion was that the collision industry just hasn’t experienced all of these yet and therefore all of the players are still trying to get away with all they can. Further, the traditional business practices everyone claims are “just the way it’s done” haven’t been challenged yet, so no one’s been forced to adopt new and less questionable practices.

With that in mind, I started to look around to see if his assertion had merit. I reflected on the one lawsuit that made all body shops paranoid: the action by Bruce Plotkin, assistant at...