Beginning in 2035, all new light-duty vehicles purchased in New York must be zero-emission models, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Thursday. Hochul said during a press conference in White Plains, New York that she is [...]
AAA and Consumer Reports (CR) say automatic emergency braking (AEB) technology isn’t yet up to par. “AEB is still in its infancy, technologically,” said Kelly Funkhouser, CR’s head of connected and automated vehicles, in the CR’s [...]
Hurricane Ian has ripped through Cuba and spent Wednesday and Thursday in Florida with its path aimed toward South Carolina. While collision repairers may already be feeling the after-effects of the damage or will be [...]
A Massachusetts proposal to force insurers to raise Massachusetts’ lowest-in-the-nation auto body labor rate remains alive, even though the $4.6 billion governor’s economic development and tax relief bill that contains the language addressing the labor [...]
Insurance industry associations and major carriers are in agreement that it’s necessary to be able to collect “adequate rates” to stay in business — though in this case, they’re talking about the rates they’re allowed [...]
Illinois’ secretary of state has filed several criminal charges against Paul Breaux, Carvana’s vice president, general counsel, and secretary. Among the charges are acting as an unlicensed used car dealer as well as failing to [...]
Despite inflation continuing to loom, J.D. Power reports new-vehicle retail sales are expected to increase by the end of the month compared to September 2021 sales but the annualized sales rate remains “well below historical [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking into recent reports that Tesla has added special codes in its vehicle software related to crash testing with auto safety agencies. The agency is aware of [...]
Friends and colleagues are remembering Jeff Silver as a passionate and visionary leader who for decades dedicated himself to the betterment of the collision repair industry. Silver, who became head of the Inter-Industry Conference on [...]
Hyundai and Kia have settled a class action lawsuit involving defects that caused, or could cause, engine failures and fires in several model year Santa Fe, Soul, Sportage, Sonata Hybrid, Sorento, Optima, Tucson, Elantra, Veloster, [...]
