[njsteve]

Probably because the National Insurance Crime Bureau also collects claims data, which in many cases involves intertwined medical insurance claims that are linked with a particular vehicle's VIN. The moment you mention medical claims, then the Federal HIPAA laws on medical record privacy comes into play. Read that as BIG penalties for revealing personal information. That is probably why they went running scared, even though it is so far away from even being remotely related, it could still be a billion to one possibility. And sadly, that is too close to reality for them.