Why Use Vehicle Insurance Tracking Solutions?

If improving the profitability of your auto loan portfolio is a goal, you’re in the right place.

From VSI Insurance to CPI Insurance, Skip Tracing to Gap Claims, and Primary Claims Service, we understand the needs lenders have. 

Miniter Group has provided outsourced tracking services for over 20 years. We are the largest provider of VSI Insurance and the only VSI provider with in-house skip tracing.

While hundreds of organizations have streamlined their processes with Miniter Group’s Lender Vehicle Solutions, thousands more have yet to discover how to transfer collateral risk and recover funds efficiently.

What can we help you with?

VSI Insurance

Blanket VSI Insurance also called LSI Insurance (Lender Single Interest) is a proven single interest insurance product used by auto lenders.

Miniter group delivers VSI Insurance with a unique approach that enables rate stability to the lender in both good and bad economic cycles. Using this technique, one of our lenders has maintained the same low VSI rate since 2003 and consistently achieves annual net charge-off reductions from 10% to 18%. 

To learn more about rate stability, read Miniter’s Complete Guide to VSI Insurance.

Blanket VSI involves charging a small premium to the borrower at loan origination, which can be excluded from the APR in most states. This premium is then used to pay for collateral and skip losses that occur after repossession.

Miniter group delivers our blanket VSI programs with a unique approach that ensures rate stability to the lender in both good and bad economic cycles.

For more details read the article “Miniter Group’s Complete Guide to VSI Insurance”.

• Reduce charge-off expense 10% to 18%
• Add 5 or more basis points to portfolio profitability
• No insurance tracking
• The borrower pays the premium at loan origination
• Premium pays repossession damage & skip claims
• Rate Stability

CPI Insurance

Collateral Protection Insurance is used to transfer physical damage, theft and other perils associated with consumer and commercial vehicles.

CPI Insurance is a Lender-Placed Insurance product that works with Miniter Group’s Borrower-CentricSM Insurance Tracking system. 

Collateral Protection Insurance Policies are dual interest policies, meaning that both the lender and the borrower will have coverage under the policy.

Learn more: A Detailed Review of VSI Insurance vs CPI Insurance

Highlights

• Broad Dual Interest Coverage
• Low cost to the lender
• Requires borrower vehicle insurance tracking
• Highly regulated
• The common name is CPI or vehicle force-placed insurance
• Skip Tracing, GAP Claim Service, and Primary Claim Service available

SKIP Tracing

Our Skip Tracing company Miniter Investigations, Inc. (MI2) was created in 2003 so that Miniter Group could control the skip tracing investigative workflow. Having skip tracking in-house has two major advantages over outsourced (4th party) skip tracing.

Our policies and procedures follow the strict regulatory requirements of the banking industry.

Procedures can be customized by the lender.

We repossess on behalf of our lenders. If the vehicle is not recovered, we continue to skip trace with no questions.

• Best locate ratios in the industry
• Unsuccessful repossession attempts continue to be skip traced – No questions
• Experience agents and private investigators
• Procedures customized by the lender
• State of the art investigative tools

With the unprecedented increase in vehicle skips since 2015, Miniter Investigations is rapidly expanding our skip tracing team to service all lenders outside of our VSI & CPI insurance products.

GAP Claim Services

• Miniter provides GAP claims service for both the GAP contracts we sell as well as for lenders who finance GAP contracts from their dealers.
• Dealer GAP contracts are debt cancellation contracts, not insurance policies. When the lender agrees to accept these contracts as part of the vehicle financing, the lender is agreeing to cancel any GAP debt if the borrower’s car is a total loss. Learn more in this article.
• Miniter Group has years of expertise working with hundreds of dealer GAP providers, which enables us to get the best possible settlement of your GAP claim.

• Knowledgeable staff focused on GAP claims payments
• Claim processing to ensure maximum recovery
• Claim payment reports by GAP provider
• GAP Compliance monitoring by State
  
  

Primary Claims Services

Each year, lenders fail to recover millions of dollars of lien-holder claims payments from their borrower’s primary insurance companies.

When a lender receives a repossession condition report with physical damage, the loan servicing department may not have the tools to identify the borrower’s insurance company, or the expertise to maximize claims payments.

Insurance companies know that bankers are not insurance experts. In our experience, they tend to “deny first” once they know they are dealing with a banker. They will quote some detail of the borrower’s insurance policy that the lender has neither the time nor the expertise to research.

Without the proper expertise to respond to the denial, a legitimate claim payment may be missed.

• Expert staff focused on lien-holder claims payments
• Expertise on auto policies in all 50 states
• Insurance discovery tools for last known borrower insurance
• Claim payment litigation history with many borrower insurance companies
• A/B testing to prove our recovery effectiveness

We have tools to identify your borrower’s last known insurance provider, and we will work with these insurance companies to make sure they pay all legitimate lien-holder claims.

Conclusion

With more than two decades of experience and the most robust and modern system in the country, we are primed to help you grow your portfolio AND help improve its profitability.  

Please feel free to reach out anytime and Ask Us Anything.

Discover more about our VSI insurance solutions with these engaging articles: 

Miniter’s Complete Guide to Vendor Single Interest Insurance (VSI)

A Detailed Review of VSI Insurance vs CPI Insurance

Understanding VSI Insurance in a Recession