Interior Ministry proposes to tighten regulations on buying car insurance

Every year about 20% of drivers do not purchase car insurance (OC), which is obligatory by law. Because of this, insurance companies are losing out on an estimated zl. 837 million in sales. The Interior Ministry (MSWiA) has proposed a motion to establish a central register of OC contracts which would help police trace drivers who do not comply with the law. Insurance companies are to be required to provide records of car-insurance policies purchased from them to the ministry and to registry offices. This would help keep the police informed about people who have and who not purchased insurance. Insurance companies are critical of this requirement as they say it would cost them about zl. 50 per policy for passing on the information. In total the cost of providing the ministry with car-insurance policy data could cost the industry between zl. 5 and zl. 6 million a year. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 1, 10) M.M.