Editor’s note: The following guest editorial was submitted to Repairer Driven News by Tony Pendola, PE, Small Business Ombudsman/Small Business Environmental Assistance Provider (SBEAP) for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. This editorial was [...]
The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) has released the results of a data call from 10 auto insurers on appraisal use and outcomes, finding that it used in less than 0.02% of payable personal auto [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unanimously adopted final rules for cellular-vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) technology in a second report and order late last month. The C-V2X technology provides direct communication between vehicles, roadside infrastructure and other road [...]
The annual economic cost for fatal crashes in the U.S. is estimated to be $417 billion, according to a recently published 2025 Roadmap for Safety report produced by the Advocates for Highway & Auto Safety. [...]
Crash Champions Collision Repair Team has raised $200,000 for Collision Engineering, a two-year associate degree program. Co-founded by Enterprise Mobility and Ranken Technical College in St. Louis, the Collision Engineering Program (CEP) was created in [...]
State Farm was approved to raise auto insurance rates in California by an average of 17.7% starting at the end of January, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. About 4 million customers will be impacted [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized regulation amendments regarding chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to ensure that new per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) chemicals [...]
Two Maine Right to Repair Working Group members have requested a one-year postponement to comply with the telematics portion of a “right to repair” law that would require a standardized access platform beginning Jan. 5. [...]
The U.S. property and casualty industry has reported a $4.1 billion net underwriting gain for the first nine months of 2024, according to an AM Best report. AM Best calls the gain a “significant improvement” [...]
Proper contracts and documentation are needed to ensure collision repair shops get paid for total loss claims, Tony Adams, AkzoNobel services consultant, and Tim Ronak, AkzoNobel senior services consultant, said during a 2024 Society of [...]
