CPAN Shares Update Following Meeting with Rep. Brenda Carter; Hearing on Senate Bills Expected in Coming Weeks

Nearly 100 Organizations Sign Open Letter Calling on State Rep. Brenda Carter to Hold Hearings on Senate Bills 530, 531 and 575

Hoste: ‘CPAN believes we share with Chair Carter the common objective of ensuring access to care for catastrophically injured people’

LANSING, Mich.—(Feb. 28, 2024)—The following statement can be attributed to Tim Hoste, president of CPAN, following a meeting today between CPAN representatives and State Rep. Brenda Carter to discuss the policies necessary to end the Crisis in Care for car crash survivors.

“CPAN believes we share with Chair Carter the common objective of ensuring access to care for catastrophically injured people and recognizing that the only path to achieve this objective is through legislative changes addressing the current fee cap system and arbitrary limits to family provided care. CPAN appreciates Chair Carter’s commitment to fairness and truth in solving these urgent issues that have caused unnecessary turmoil and suffering.

CPAN looks forward to hearings on the bipartisan Senate bill package (SB 530, 531 and 575) within the next two to three weeks. Since October, CPAN and our collaborative partners have called for fair and balanced hearings to ensure crash survivors, families, and care providers have an opportunity to further testify about the devastating impact of the current system and the relief the proposed solutions will provide. In addition, opponents to the bills, including the Department of Insurance and Financial Services and the Insurance Alliance of Michigan, should publicly answer questions about their broad statements made in their attempts to stop these solutions from moving forward.

Furthermore, CPAN and our partners eagerly look forward to the opportunity to provide input on any alternative solutions being contemplated by the House of Representatives. It is essential that impacted stakeholders such as crash survivors, families and care providers have a voice in the development of any proposed solutions, and we appreciate Chair Carter’s guarantee that this will occur.

The ultimate goal is to end this sad chapter in our state’s history and restore the access to the continuum of care Michigan consumers are promised with every payment they make on their insurance policies. CPAN is excited to move forward in this shared goal with Chair Carter with the urgency that is required.”

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CPAN is a broad bipartisan, Michigan-based coalition whose mission is to be the consumer advocate for auto insurance policyholders, those who have been injured in a motor vehicle crash and the medical providers caring for them, representing them at the Capitol, in the courts, and in the public forum. For more information, please visit www.CPAN.us.