State Farm announced Friday its auto claim spending and loss adjustment expenses fell 13.75 percent during the pandemic year of 2020. The nation’s No. 1 auto insurer paid out $27.6 billion in claims and LAE last [...]
Barbara Cellini, the former co-owner of Broadway Auto Rebuilders and a longtime AASPI member, died recently. She was 78. She and her husband Tom Cellini ran the shop until what the Daily Southtown reported was [...]
A bill supported by the Nebraska Auto Body Association would forbid insurers from totaling out a vehicle for a repair bill lower than 75 percent of actual cash value. Nebraska Legislative Bill 602 would in [...]
A new Nebraska bill would prohibit insurers from requiring aftermarket parts on vehicles aged 3 years or less at the time of the crash. “People who just bought a new car do not want aftermarket [...]
An OEM certification won’t produce repair volume unless a collision repair facility does the legwork to market itself, an Illinois body shop manager said Tuesday. Body Builders Auto general manager Joe Phillippi called it one [...]
Scan tool manufacturer and calibration sublet provider asTech announced Wednesday it had purchased adasThink, a software platform which alerts shops to calibration operations required on a vehicle. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. AdasThink [...]
“Clearing the Confusion” developers have given the Collision Industry Conference “their blessing” to reproduce and use the SAE generic nomenclature for various advanced driver assistance systems, a CIC committee co-chair said last month. This final [...]
Editor’s note: As a collision repairer spraying coatings, you’re by default regulated under the “6H” rule. But you might be eligible for an exemption. A new Environmental Protection Agency tool will help shops easily figure [...]
Pennsylvania and national trade groups this week honored body shop owner and industry advocate Gerald “Rick” Dotterer, who died suddenly Saturday after contracting COVID-19. He was 63. A second-generation shop owner, Dotterer ran Royersford, Pa.-based [...]
Citing plans to “advance the digitization” of the automotive supplies giant, 3M has invested in asTech. Terms of were not disclosed in asTech’s Tuesday announcement of the deal. AsTech’s private equity owner Kinderhook Industries confirmed [...]
