The runners-up in Altair’s Enlighten Awards Tuesday might have even more relevance to collision repairers than the 2020 winners, for the silver medalists included advanced-material Nissan body structures and a new DuPont structural adhesive. Nissan [...]
Repairers could be encountering more composite suspension components on future wrecks, based on the winners of the 2020 Altair Enlighten Awards announced Tuesday. Top honors included a fiberglass leaf spring from Mubea and a Marelli [...]
Parts procurement platform definitions shared at the Collision Industry Conference last month revealed instances of nuanced, precise classification as well as more general approaches to terminology. The classifications provided by APU, Car-Part.com and PartsTrader also [...]
The three estimating systems are close but not entirely in sync on parts category definitions, based on information shared last month by the Collision Industry Conference. The classifications provided to the Parts and Materials Committee [...]
A Collision Industry Conference committee last month demonstrated how semantic differences between players in the auto body repair process could mean a part a vendor classifies one way could be designated something different by the [...]
We’ve covered some potentially big PPP news out of Washington, D.C. lately in the form of support for a second round of checks and easier loan forgiveness, though no legislation has yet cleared Congress. However, [...]
Auto insurers who fail to adjust pricing for the impact of advanced driver assistance systems can leave more than two-thirds of a book under- or over-paying for a policy, Swiss Re casualty underwriting Vice President [...]
A bipartisan duo of Texas U.S. representatives on July 20 filed a bill proposing government grants worth four months of certain operating expenses to bolster small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 response. Unlike the popular [...]
Eight of the nation’s largest insurers consistently reimburse blending basecoat over surfaces neighboring a new or repaired panel, the latest “Who Pays for What?” survey reported this month. “I’m glad to see that most shops [...]
A GOP “HEALS Act” portfolio of COVID-19 legislation Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., heralded as “another bold framework to help our nation” would reduce the administrative burden on many small businesses seeking PPP loan [...]
