A new burst of collision repair industry consolidation has arisen as private equity firms continue to pick up smaller operators and seek to grow them into larger ones, apparently unfazed by the existing large national [...]
Jeep on Thursday announced the return of the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer, describing body-on-frame vehicles with a mix of materials including steel, aluminum and composites. “Substantial emphasis was placed on designing an all-new body-on-frame structure [...]
BMW North America collision program manager Jonathan Inzano concurred Thursday that the OEM wants auto body shops to scan vehicles before and after a collision repair. Inzano was responding to a VeriFacts Guild 21 webinar [...]
General Motors’ T1 SUVs are very similar from a collision repair perspective to the T1 light-duty trucks introduced a few years ago, the OEM observed recently. Nathaniel Skutt of GM body structure advanced serviceability of [...]
Farmers on Wednesday announced it would by mid-March have upgraded its discount-providing telematics app Signal to carry a “CrashAssist” feature. Upon detecting a possible crash based on the phone’s sensor data, the new technology will [...]
The Texas Department of Insurance on Monday confirmed that auto insurers aren’t required to offer Texans an appraisal clause option to resolve a dispute over repair bill reimbursement. The agency also has rewritten its website [...]
Assured Performance on Tuesday announced a successful Nissan email campaign pitched certified auto body shops to 3.9 million Nissan and 500,000 Infiniti customers. “The campaign launch resulted a tenfold increase in the number of hits [...]
Two private equity firms have bought a 50-year-old North Carolina auto recycler and launched a new salvage company, Aesop Auto Parts. American Pacific Group wrote in a news release Thursday that Aesop will “acquire and [...]
Progressive earlier this month reported its personal lines profitability rose nearly $1.46 billion last year despite paying out COVID-19 premium credits, reimbursing higher auto severity, and increasing its advertising spend. The nation’s No. 3 auto [...]
The three national collision repair trade groups on Friday released a position statement narrowly defining both the scanning operation and what constitutes a “qualified scan tool.” The document by the Alliance of Automotive Service Providers, [...]
