USAA, the nation’s fifth-largest auto insurer, confirmed Tuesday it will keep covering COVID-19 auto cleaning through June 30. “We are extending cleaning through June 30, 2021,” USAA spokeswoman Lara Hendrickson wrote in an email a [...]
The telematics company Arity on Friday announced companies could leverage its Core Driving Risk Audiences service and market themselves to drivers of various skill levels. For example, an insurer could pitch premium discounts to blocs [...]
A NJM Insurance official on Friday said the carrier will no longer reimburse vehicle cleaning as a precaution against the COVID-19 coronavirus. “Effective 4/1/2021, NJM will no longer be accepting the charges for COVID-19 clean-up/sanitizing,” [...]
Estimators, managers and all other Blueprint Optimization Tool users now can track their success adding operations flagged by the “BOT” as potentially overlooked repair labor. The BOT software allows a collision repairer to automatically apply [...]
Boyd Group Services, which draws a significant part of its income from Gerber Collision, on Wednesday announced its same-store sales fell 15.6 percent in 2020 to more than $1.77 billion. The news comes on the [...]
Parent companies of major national collision repair chains this month shared views anticipating some improvement this year in auto body market conditions. The views from came a month after LKQ offered a few views on [...]
Congress has overwhelmingly passed a bill extending the Paycheck Protection Program to May 31. House Resolution 1799, the “PPP Extension Act of 2021” now goes to Democratic President Joe Biden for consideration. CNBC reported Thursday [...]
BMW North America collision program manager Jonathan Inzano in February and earlier this month shared some of the subtleties of BMW repairs. The details from the Feb. 11 and March 11 VeriFacts Guild 21 presentations demonstrate [...]
Nissan last week announced it would use resin 3-D printing and its relatively new dieless body panel forming technique to produce more parts for discontinued vehicles. Though the OEM will only sell the NISMO Heritage [...]
Collision repairers might need to request another piece of information at intake or find themselves with difficulties test-driving certain Chargers and Challengers. Dodge announced Monday an upcoming software upgrade would help muscle car owners thwart [...]
