WASHINGTON--The National Conference of Insurance Legislators has rejected an effort to get states to adopt laws prohibiting municipalities from charging fees when police or fire departments respond to an accident or prepare a report on one.

They acted based on testimony from Regina Moore, president of Cost Recovery Corp., a Dayton, Ohio, company which has developed a fee-based system to provide such information, and from law enforcement officials from communities in Ocala, Fla. and Longwood, Ohio.

All three argued that such fees are necessary because cash-strapped communities would otherwise have to curtail necessary police and fire services if they could not charge those fees, especially to those involved in accidents that live outside the community.

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