State Farm last month told the Kansas Department of Insurance it directs third-party claimants to obtain an estimate from a Select Service repairer, but the claimant “is under no obligation to use that repairer.” An [...]
The COVID-19 coronavirus situation had poked holes in some approaches to the collision repair business, based on comments from some collision industry experts participating Wednesday on a 3M webinar. Collision Hub CEO Kristen Felder said [...]
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety awarded the next-generation 2019-20 Wrangler a “marginal” rating on the small-overlap crash test after the impact mysteriously tipped the Jeep over on its passenger side in two test runs. [...]
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday issued an executive order that employees filing workers compensation claims for COVID-19 as of March 19 were presumed to have contracted the disease at their workplace. The move [...]
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists and more than 100 other business organizations have teamed up to create the America’s Recovery Fund Coalition and request federal “medium-term” aid for companies during the COVID-19 coronavirus recovery. [...]
I-CAR’s significant “Even Better I-CAR” curriculum overhaul has hit its stride, with the only remaining hitches attributable to the COVID-19 coronavirus. “We believe we’ve delivered,” CEO John Van Alstyne said in a live, interactive YouTube [...]
Illinois has repealed a workers’ compensation presumption that any employee of an “Essential Business” — such as an auto body shop — found with COVID-19 would have been presumed to have contracted it on the [...]
The Collision Repair Education Foundation said 65 percent of the auto body trade schools it surveyed reported the COVID-19 coronavirus will affect their program budgets in the 2020-21 school year. It has even dealt a [...]
Audatex has begun to publish scanning labor times applicable to certain circumstances, the Database Enhancement Gateway reports. The times only apply to OEM scan tools or tools running the official OEM software through the SAE [...]
The Database Enhancement Gateway, which allows repairers and insurers to make inquiries and suggestions of the estimating providers at no cost, offers weekly tips for repairers on the Audatex, Mitchell and CCC programs online and through the Society of Collision Repair Specialists’ email list. [...]
