INS-AUTO REPAIR FACILITIES

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Requires automobile insurers to allow policyholders to choose repair facilities. Allows the insurer to recommend facilities so long as the insurer informs the insured or claimant at the same time of the insured's or claimant's right to choose the facility. Prohibits the adjuster for the motor vehicle from being employed by the facility or having any direct authority over the facility's recommendations or decisions relating to the repair of the motor vehicle if the insurer owns an interest in that facility. Provides for civil penalties. Makes a violation a violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act and amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act to include the violations. Requires repair facilities in which an insurer owns an interest to file an annual report delineating the number of repairs and the dollar amount when the motor vehicle owner was an insured or claimant of the insurer with the ownership interest, and those repairs as a percentage of the total repairs. Requires the Secretary to maintain the information in the reports as confidential.