Susquehanna Private Capital’s plans for the new Quality Collision Group MSO differ from the traditional private equity collision playbook. Perhaps the most obvious is its launch of a consolidator emphasizing what Quality Collision Group CEO Jerod [...]
About 68 percent of collision repairers surveyed reported “always” or “usually” encountering insurer approval without coming out to their shops to reinspect. Last year, this only proved true for 52 percent of the respondents polled [...]
Collision repairers saw worse business conditions in September than they did in August, with CCC reporting Wednesday repairable claims last month were down 22.7 percent compared to September 2019. By contrast, August repairable claims were [...]
Quality Collision Group CEO Jerod Guerin said Wednesday his newly formed national MSO’s “OE-centric approach” wouldn’t preclude direct repair programs, but the company wouldn’t solely hinge their business model upon them either. Guerin said the [...]
I-CAR and Ford recently highlighted how a collision repair professional could leverage the OEM’s free consumer-facing parts website and owner’s manuals for valuable information. I-CAR also reemphasized the value of the free fordcrashparts.com informational portal [...]
Verisk on Tuesday announced Ford would participate in the analytics provider’s connected car Data Exchange. The deal allows Ford and Lincoln owners to easily opt-in to receive insurer offers of discounts related to their real-world [...]
The Collision Industry Electronic Commerce Association Calibration Committee early this fall released what, for now, ought to serve as a free and final version of a suggested ADAS workflow for collision repair facilities. Committee member [...]
Top 30 insurer Southern Farm Bureau announced Tuesday it had launched a DriveDown telematics program tracking real-world trips and rewarding good drivers with reduced deductibles. The system uses Arity’s “Routely” smartphone app — there’s no dongles [...]
It might feel like complaints to state insurance departments do nothing, but Wolters Kluwer senior compliance counsel Kathy Donovan called them among the factors which led to the market conduct investigations she studied. “There’s no [...]
Hyundai on Monday announced it would incorporate functional as well as aesthetic changes to the body of the refreshed 2021 Santa Fe. “The 2021 Santa Fe body structure includes increased high-tensile steel for greater body [...]
