SEMA events Vice President Tom Gattuso on Friday said the COVID-19 coronavirus hasn’t deterred SEMA from holding its 2020 show Nov. 3-6. “I’m not sure where it comes from,” Gattuso said of the thinking that [...]
SEMA events Vice President Tom Gattuso on Friday said the COVID-19 coronavirus hasn’t deterred SEMA from holding its 2020 show Nov. 3-6. “I’m not sure where it comes from,” Gattuso said of the thinking that [...]
State Farm has told Select Service auto body shops it will reimburse an hour of body labor and $25 in materials expended cleaning vehicles as a precaution against the COVID-19 coronavirus. “Thank you for all [...]
Our recent interview and research on Subaru yielded a couple of other tidbits beyond details on certified shop growth and auditing, and we thought repairers might be interested. Here’s our “reporter’s notebook” roundup: Certified shops [...]
CCC last month doubled the Collision Industry Foundation’s COVID-19 coronavirus fund with a $100,000 match of CIF’s initial seed money. CIF, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, helps people with ties to the collision industry after disasters. It [...]
Progressive on Thursday announced it would divide more than $2 million among its network of affiliated collision repairers. Spokeswoman Olivia Gust (Allison+Partners) in an email Thursday said the company had more than 2,000 Guaranteed Repair [...]
The Small Business Administration won’t accept new applicants for the Paycheck Protection Program or for COVID-19 economic injury disaster loans — at least for now. “The SBA is currently unable to accept new applications for [...]
Solera regional managing director Ramon Suarez on Wednesday estimated U.S. auto claims volumes had fallen 50 percent, with auto glass claims down 30 percent, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and response. “Most of [...]
Honda last month told repairers to consider both form and function when applying various corrosion and chip protection substances. The March 2020 Body Repair News supports the notion that restoring pre-loss condition includes the aesthetics [...]
More than a year after opening to independent shops, Subaru’s certified collision network is up to more than 500 shops, with around 150 more repairers near the end of the enrollment process. A few hundred [...]
