This week saw some positive news for auto body shops trying to recover from a volume decline during COVID-19 coronavirus-related shutdowns and precautions. Roadside assistance platform Urgently on Wednesday said its modeling predicts traffic would [...]

A bill holding insurers to a rebuttable presumption that automaker scanning and calibration procedures are necessary for safety and pre-loss condition has effectively died in the New Hampshire Legislature this year. House Bill 1455 passed [...]

Upset at the lack of training or support from your auto body shop’s distributor? Blame the discount or advance you’re getting, according to a veteran jobber. Auto Care Association PBE segment committee Chairman Joe Mattos, [...]

Further research into metal failure has found current automotive steel material cards predict fractures earlier than what occurs in the real world, American Iron and Steel Institute automotive Vice President John Catterall said earlier this [...]

FinishMaster late last year sued California collision MSO GMP Cars, alleging it and two individual locations combined failed to make good on 2018 promises to buy more than $5 million in in paint and materials [...]

The Northern District of California U.S. Attorney’s Office has charged a collision repairer with two counts of wire fraud and and one count of making a false statement in a loan application, alleging June 5 [...]