The Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de l\u2019assurance automobile du Qu\u00e9bec (SAAQ) has permanently closed its Place Vertu service centre in Montreal following an administrative investigation that uncovered irregularities and prompted a complaint to police.<\/p>\n
The provincial auto insurer announced Monday the location shut down effective immediately, ending its business relationship with the private operator that managed the site.<\/p>\n
The agency\u2019s investigations unit had launched a review last month after receiving reports about the service centre\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n
That investigation found irregularities in the activities of the mandatary, some serious enough to warrant an official complaint to law enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n
Because of what it described as a breakdown in trust, the SAAQ said it decided to terminate the contract.<\/p>\n
The SAAQ also said it will not provide further details, citing ongoing police investigations.<\/p>\n
Services at the Place Vertu location had already been suspended in February while the administrative review was underway.<\/p>\n
Customers with existing appointments are being contacted and offered new dates at nearby service centres elsewhere in Montreal.<\/p>\n
The SAAQ said its broader Montreal-area network can absorb the additional demand and noted that some transactions remain available online.<\/p>\n
The agency acknowledged the closure may cause inconvenience and thanked customers for their understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de l\u2019assurance automobile du Qu\u00e9bec (SAAQ) has permanently closed its Place Vertu service centre in Montreal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-510325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}