contributions to the parts supply chain, citing the $32 billion dollar industry in the United States. He also noted that, “Parts sold by professional automotive recycling facilities are recycled genuine original OEM parts that meet OEM requirements. They are OEM parts, designed by the OEM, and built to meet the OEM requirements for fit, finish, durability, reliability, and safety. The legal precedent that exists for this response was also missed in your reporting -- a historic ruling by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals just last June which affirmed the use of sal- vage/recycled OEM crash parts in vehicle repairs and found that recycled parts are diametrically different from aftermarket parts.” (See article on page 40). Wilson called upon CNN to “retract much of this broadcast and after consultation with ARA, air a new segment educating viewers about the automotive parts supply chain, the many different ways in which professional automotive recyclers meet market demand for quality OEM recycled parts and how these parts are different than those parts your pro- gram sought to describe.”
ARA continues to respond to mischaracterizations and unfair portrayals of recycled parts in smaller,
Wilson called upon CNN to “retract much of this broadcast and after consultation with ARA, air a new segment educating viewers about the automotive parts supply chain.”
local media outlets as well and encourages all affiliat- ed chapters to do the same.
Insurance and Recycled Parts Experts from the insurance perspective don’t take
issue with recycled parts versus new OEM parts. “As a trade organization, we do not endorse the use of any particular kind of parts,” says Robert C. Passmore, Assistant Vice President, Personal Lines Policy, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI). PCI is an Illinois national insurance trade association that lobbies on behalf of its nearly 1,000 member insurance companies, that write approximately 35 percent of the auto insurance across the U.S. “What we do support is a competitive
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