Voters in Massachusetts overwhelmingly backed an expansion of the state’s landmark automotive “Right to Repair” law, allowing independent mechanics and collision repairers greater access to vehicle data. “The Auto Care Association is extremely pleased that [...]
A new batch of online courses covering everything from millennial workers to lawsuits over short-pay claims can be found today on the Society of Collision Repair Specialists’ virtual Repairer Driven Education website. The four new [...]
SEMA on Monday crowned adasThink the Best New Product in the collision repair and refinish category. The software beat out more than 100 other new products featured within the virtual SEMA360 collision repair and refinish [...]
Half of the Society of Collision Repairer Specialists’ virtual Repairer Driven Education series is “live” now, available for all to watch on the rde.scrs.com website. SCRS anticipates releasing the rest of the 18-session lineup — [...]
The Collision Industry Conference next week will pursue a vote on data protection “Golden Rules” for the industry, discuss business lessons from the pandemic and look to the future with a panel on electric vehicle [...]
Collision repairers should develop their own market survey of retail door rates to successfully counter insurer objections to their labor rate, an AkzoNobel industry consultant advised in a virtual Repairer Driven Education course released Monday. [...]
The Claims Bridge on Thursday announced it had brought its Australian artificial intelligence hail estimating system EziClaims Suite to the U.S. The company said it would give insurers free enterprise subscriptions to try out the [...]
Three repairers in separate states this summer reported State Farm refusing to reimburse OEM-mandated safety inspections following a repair. In Wisconsin, a body shop provided State Farm with additional clarification from a Subaru representative, only [...]
Ford CEO Jim Farley said Wednesday his company saw a tremendous opportunity in electric commercial F-150s and Transits, a prediction with significant ramifications for auto body shops handling business and fleet collision repairs. He called [...]
General Motors last week revealed a 2022 GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 which “makes the battery pack a fundamental structural element of the chassis.” It’s one of several body details accompanying — or leveraging — the [...]
