Besides its discussion of “unfair anticompetitive restrictions on third-party repair or self-repair of items,” Democratic President Joe Biden’s executive order Friday addresses two other practices potentially relevant to the collision repair industry’s professionals: noncompetes and [...]
The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of Massachusetts recently met with lawmakers to advocate for bills requiring insurers to reimburse labor rates adjusted for inflation. “We have already made tremendous strides during this current legislative [...]
Liberty Mutual on Monday announced it would buy the “super-regional” auto insurer State Auto for $52 a share in a deal expected to close next year. Liberty Mutual referenced State Auto’s $2.3 billion book of [...]
Democratic President Joe Biden on Friday “encouraged” the Federal Trade Commission chair to “consider” regulations on “unfair anticompetitive restrictions on third-party repair or self-repair of items.” Assuming Chairwoman Lina Kahn and the rest of the [...]
A lack of CCC and Mitchell data on late-model Nissan vehicles may soon be resolved, based on comments from the information providers and Nissan on Friday. “Mitchell enjoys an excellent long-term relationship with Nissan,” Mitchell [...]
A British company seeks to patent a business process where new or existing OEMs looking to do small production runs of electric vehicles could outsource the assembly to auto body shops. Setting up a conventional [...]
Mississippi Collision Repair Association Executive Director Josh Kent on Friday announced his trade group would change its name to the Gulf States Collision Association and open to shops in Louisiana and Alabama. “We are just [...]
Cadillac used the body-frame interface of the 2021 Escalade to mitigate “cabin boom” on the 2021 Escalade, GM lead upper structure engineer Jeff McCormick said recently. McCormick’s presentation to the virtual 2021 Great Designs in [...]
Stellantis on Thursday announced it would produce four electric vehicle platforms soon and seek to have more than 40 percent of its U.S. sales involving plug-in hybrids and EVs by 2030. Along the way, the [...]
Axalta announced Wednesday it would buy auto body repair and refinish products manufactuer U-POL for about $590 million in cash. U-POL’s brands include Raptor, Dolphin, Gold, System 20 and Tiger Seal, and its products include [...]
