CCC presentations this fall drew attention to means of studying an America with a new taste for working remotely. The concepts raised by CCC analyst and director Susanna Gotsch and explored further by us in [...]

Collision Industry Conference Emerging Technologies Committee member Chuck Olsen reassured repairers last month that programming vehicle systems isn’t difficult for a vehicle who had “been in to it.” It’s just a manner of properly following [...]

General Motors is taking applicants for a new certified Canadian Collision Repair Network, program manager Mitchell said Thursday. The certified auto body repair program is taking dealership applications today and will open to the rest [...]

Hillsborough County, Fla., Judge Miriam Valkenburg ruled earlier this year that GEICO had breached its contractual obligation to reimburse 11 claimants for a “prevailing competitive price” on auto glass repair. She ordered the insurer to [...]

A Florida glass shop’s victory over GEICO this summer draws attention to a potentially landmark 2018 case for collision repairers in that state. The 13th Circuit appellate decision in 2018 GEICO v. Superior Auto Glass [...]

The National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence last week announced it would feature nine Spanish-language versions of ASE certification tests in January 2021. This bilingual portfolio will include the A1-A8 automobile test lineup and the [...]

Hyundai last week unveiled its “E-GMP” electric vehicle platform and highlighted some of the structural battery protection elements collision repairers might need to restore. Hyundai already sells long-range electric vehicles, such as the 258-mile 2019 [...]

Collision Advice CEO Mike Anderson recently argued that this year’s pandemic-related business decline represented the reality shops will face when ADAS saturates the U.S. fleet. During an Oct. 29 webinar, he called COVID-19 a “wake-up [...]

Despite reports of shops closing their doors, industry experts for years have fixed the number of collision repair businesses at between 32,000-36,000, Collision Advice CEO Mike Anderson said on a webinar this fall. “The number [...]

While many companies were “backpedaling” during the pandemic, Maaco bet on advertising — and was rewarded with significant retail work, President Chris Dawson said. “It proved out to be extremely successful for us in 2020,” [...]