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AAA Michigan Begins Mailing MCCA Refund Checks

3 June 1998

AAA Michigan Begins Mailing MCCA Refund Checks

    DEARBORN, Mich., June 2 -- AAA Michigan announced today it
will begin mailing checks tomorrow, June 3, 1998, to its approximately 1.25
million auto insurance policyholders to refund premiums that were paid to the
Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association (MCCA).  The company said it received
its share of the MCCA refund money today, and will begin printing refund
checks for AAA Michigan policyholders tomorrow morning.  The first checks
should begin arriving in policyholders' mailboxes by the end of this week, the
company said, and all policyholders should receive their checks by the end of
June.
    In line with a ruling in April by the Michigan Insurance Bureau, checks
will be issued to policyholders of record, March 18, 1998, the date of the
premium-refund decision by the MCCA.  That ruling provides that the MCCA
refund be given to policyholders directly and promptly in the amount of $180
per vehicle.