Gerber Collision parent company Boyd Group Services on Wednesday announced it had beefed up its presence in South Carolina and Georgia with the purchase of the John Harris Body Shops regional MSO. Founded in 1975, [...]
A Ford and State Farm yearlong study of advanced driver assistance system build data appears to provide further confirmation that such technology can lower the risk for insurers — and therefore the business coming to [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday ordered automakers to report all “Level 2” advanced driver assistance system crashes to the agency. The policy’s inclusion of mass-market ADAS means collision repairers could see increased [...]
The recent conclusion of an investigation in a different transportation industry offers auto body shops a reminder of the need to adhere to OEM procedures. The National Transportation Safety Board this spring said failure to [...]
Crash Champions on Monday announced it had reached Colorado with the purchase of five auto body shops in the Front Range Corridor. The growing, private-equity-powered, national MSO has a focus on direct repair programs and [...]
The Certified Automotive Parts Association on Thursday announced a new program to recognize parts from any OEM supplier “that also produces an in-house, alternately branded version of car company original (CCO) or car company service [...]
U.S. Massachusetts District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock on Friday questioned whether halting OBD-II authorization and deactivating telematics represented acceptable solutions for automakers to temporarily comply with Massachusetts’ expanded “Right to Repair” law. He and counsel [...]
The Rhode Island Senate on Thursday backed a bill holding that insurers couldn’t refuse markups and other charges relating to auto body shops’ paint and material and sublet expenses. Senate Bill 870, sponsored by Senate [...]
Students from Colorado, Idaho, Missouri, New York, Ohio and Wisconsin on Thursday took home auto body repair, estimating and refinishing gold medals in the first SkillsUSA Nationals since 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation [...]
Volkswagen on Friday said it sought to 3D-print 100,000 components a year by 2025 and announced significant progress with A-pillar parts formed through additive manufacturing. “Together with our partners, we aim to make 3D printing [...]
