Released: September 23, 2008

Registry for wrecks back on track

Source: Christopher Jensen, N.Y. Times (Free Registration)

On Monday a federal judge ruled in favor of consumer groups and gave the government a deadline to finally implement a law Congress passed in 1992.

Three consumer groups sued Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in February, asserting the government’s failure to carry out the law had jeopardized the safety of consumers.

Under the ruling, insurance companies, salvage yards and junkyards will be required — by the end of next March — to provide information on vehicles so badly damaged by floods, fires or crashes that they are written off. That information is to go into a national database that consumers can use to avoid being victimized when purchasing used vehicles.

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