Repairers will notice structural and technological changes in the 2020 Toyota Highlander following what is expected to be its debut in dealerships this month. The 2020 Toyota Highlander was slated to go on sale this [...]
Editor’s note: The latest issue of Toyota’s free Collision Pros magazine contains a detailed look at permitted and prohibited repairs on the 2020 Toyota Corolla Hatchback. While not a substitute for the actual OEM repair [...]
Uber last month made a pitch to collision repairers that it could replace traditional industry transportation methods like rental vehicles and chase cars. Uber for Business general manager Neal Watterson told the MSO Symposium on [...]
Oral arguments in repairers’ RICO appeal against major insurers suggest body shops might have a hard time suing when insurers place them in a situation of having to eat, refuse, or balance-bill necessary operations. The [...]
OEM certification will become significantly more relevant, CARSTAR President Dean Fisher predicted earlier this month. Automakers are entering the industry at an “unprecedented rate,” he said on a CARSTAR-sponsored BodyShop Business webinar Dec. 12. Fisher [...]
Need technicians? The Collision Repair Education Foundation will give the industry a crack at thousands of auto body repair and other transportation skilled trade students with its 2020 career fair lineup. The organization announced a [...]
Merry Christmas! If you weren’t happy with the presents you got for the holidays, why not console yourself with the bounty of free stuff others in the collision industry have bestowed upon your body shop? [...]
The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of New Jersey on Monday warned that an insurer had been sending out letters “making false and misleading comments” about a bill allowing a private right of action to [...]
An Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals judge earlier this month questioned an insurers’ representative on steering during oral arguments, suggesting possible hope for tortious interference claims rejected by a lower court. The comments by Judge [...]
A lawsuit alleging RICO enterprises involving leading national insurers failed to gain new life on Friday. A three-judge Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Friday unanimously affirmed Middle District of Florida Judge Gregory Presnell’s [...]
