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Mark Rizzi Receives Glass Professional Of-The-Year Award - March 2006
Mark Rizzi Featured In National Magazine
Rizzi speaks and demonstrates at IGA's Seminar - Feb. 2003

Rust Treatment Demonstration Feb. 6, 2003
What to Do About Corrosion Feb. 7, 2003

Mark Rizzi Honored by IGA
Rizzi presents popular program at International Glass Show

10 Things Your Auto Insurer Won't Tell You
1. “When I say this is a good policy, I mean it’s good for me.”
2. “Young drivers can't catch a break.”
3. “Spotty credit? That’ll cost you.”
4. “How do we set premiums? That’s for us to know and you to find out.”
5. “Your repaired car might look and run like new, but it’s worth a lot less.”
6. “Totaled your car? Good luck collecting its full value...”
7. "... and we’re more likely than ever to declare your car totaled.”
8. “Your mechanic works for us.”
9. “Brand loyalty is for suckers...”
10. “. . . but be careful switching carriers—it could cost you.”

Worry Over Windshields - ABC News

Windscreen Monkey Business - Cheap windscreens - Buyers Beware!

Windshields play vital role in car safety - In its latest newsletter, General Motors estimates 80 percent of windshield repairs and installations are done improperly. They say people underestimate how important the windshield is to car safety and that inadequate repairs put drivers in danger. -- One man released a book, the other runs a glass shop in Alliance.

When you are at fault

Rizzi's Work: An Interview with the Man Behind the Movement

What You Should Know Before Replacing Your Car’s Windshield

Keep This Job Babcox.com - Insurers are illegally trying to control the cost of repairs by steering consumers to particular shops, while at the same time, trying to distance themselves from any liability associated with negligent repairs.

Through the Looking Glass - Head First? Babcox.com - Considering the complex nature of collision repairs compared to those of glass, it's debatable whether networking collision shops will be doable. It's also debatable whether networks are in the best long-term interest of the collision industry, consumers or even insurers.

MIS-GUIDED Babcox.com - The estimating systems are guides, nothing more, nothing less - even the providers say so. Yet somewhere along the line, repairers started treating these guides as law and handing over control to the insurance industry.

Insurers' control over repair jobs questioned Omaha World-Herald - Representatives from small-town and neighborhood auto-body and auto-glass shops on Monday complained about the insurance industry steering repair jobs to networks of shops, thereby limiting customer choices and squeezing out smaller operations. -- Mark Rizzi, an Alliance, Neb., repairman active in the Independent Glass Association, also said the insurance industry is turning a blind eye to shoddy workmanship from shops they recommend.

Insurance shoppers should get a CLUE

Direct Repair Programs and Repair Guarantees: Steering In Disguise?

Thousands killed, hurt as auto roofs collapse

Ripoffs Mistakes and Misconsceptions

Weakening insurance laws would only hurt consumers

"Steering" Allegations

Filing a claim can mean loss of insurance

What you should know when you get your car repaired

LEGISLATIVE BILL 849

California: Section 758.5

The Truth Behind Avery v. State Farm

Things to Consider before taking your vehicle to a "CHEAP" Shop

Buggin' Out Replacement shops face customers who demand windshields equipped with manufacturers’ labels.

Judge tosses insurance database rule; Firms not restricted in use of info (SF Gate) A Sacramento Superior Court judge threw out an emergency rule State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi imposed last month to prevent insurance companies from canceling homeowner policies.

Take The Auto Body Repair Quiz

Dentists sue health insurers, alleging racketeering

Refuse to Work at a Loss

Spot Fake Airbags In Your Used Car

Dealing With Corrosion - Part 1

A Correctly Installed Windshield Can Save Lives

Video: Windshield Warning!

Buffett attacks greedy CEOs, pessimistic on reform

Traffic Safety Data

Texas Legislators Tell State Farm to Cooperate or Face New Regulations

State Farm Agrees to Settle Auto, Homeowner Insurance Rates - Company will pay $775,000 in fines, investigative costs

State Farm to pay on charges

Windshields: replacements may not be as good as new