Hyundai announced that it equipped nearly all of the vehicles it built for the North American market over the past year with automatic emergency braking (AEB), beating a voluntary industry deadline by two years. During [...]
A California appeals court has ruled that the state’s insurance commissioner has no authority to order State Farm to pay more than $100 million in refunds to Californians who the commissioner found were overcharged for [...]
A committee of the Massachusetts Legislature has held a hearing on a bill that would limit the amount of time insurance companies have to investigate the cause of a loss, and would require the insurer [...]
Allstate is raising its auto insurance rates “just about everywhere” and focusing on increasing returns in that part of its business in response to a decline in net income in the third quarter of 2021, [...]
Alicia Figurelli, senior vice president of Thomas Greco Publishing, has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Alliance of Auto Service Providers of New Jersey (AASP/NJ), the organization has announced. Figurelli becomes only [...]
Lidar is on its way to widespread adoption by OEMs as a crucial part of the technology behind self-driving vehicles, but one obstacle to its performance is something as simple as car buyers’ color preferences, [...]
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) served up its third OEM Collision Repair Technology Summit during the SEMA Show in the Las Vegas Convention Center on Thursday. Kicking off the three 90-minute sessions was [...]
CCC Intelligent Solutions has launched a photo-based estimating service that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and “insurer-driven” rules to generate what it calls “detailed and actionable” line-level repair estimates in a matter of seconds. CCC said [...]
Hall of Eagles member Toby Chess hadn’t missed a SEMA Show since 1997, but he skipped Wednesday’s fourth annual Collision Industry Red Carpet Awards Breakfast hosted by the Society of Collision Repair Specialists (SCRS) in [...]
At about 6-foot-1, 240 pounds, collision repair industry giant and Hall of Eagles member Toby Chess is a bear of a man. There’s a fair bit of teddy bear in there. Sure, Chess can be [...]
