Axalta announced Wednesday it would buy auto body repair and refinish products manufactuer U-POL for about $590 million in cash. U-POL’s brands include Raptor, Dolphin,…
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CRASH Network and Collision Advice this week celebrated “Who Pays for What?” results indicating the proportion of body shops charging to inspect seat belts has grown…
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The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of Massachusetts recently met with lawmakers to advocate for bills requiring insurers to reimburse labor rates adjusted for inflation….
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An Ohio high school collision repair program has restored the 1986 Monte Carlo Super Sport passed down to kidnapping survivor Amanda Berry by her grandfather…
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Honda has toughened the language on its terms and conditions for certified auto body shops to say shops “must” follow OEM procedures and “must” pre-and…
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Democratic President Joe Biden on Friday “encouraged” the Federal Trade Commission chair to “consider” regulations on “unfair anticompetitive restrictions on third-party repair or self-repair of…
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Toyota has rewritten its Collision Repair Information Bulletin No. 65 on clear coat to mandate body shops follow the paint manufacturer’s requirements. “To maintain vehicle…
An Arizona couple has sued State Farm for breach of contract and a lack of good faith over the insurer’s alleged behavior on their 2013…
Mercedes on Thursday said all of its new architectures would be electric-only effective 2025, and it would be fine with going all-electric by the end…
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced it had unanimously voted to get tougher on “repair restrictions that prevent small businesses, workers, consumers, and even…
The Boyd Group on Wednesday announced subsidiary Gerber Collision would purchase the 35-location regional auto body repair chain Collision Works. Terms of the deal were…
Honda has toughened the language on its terms and conditions for certified auto body shops to say shops “must” follow OEM procedures and “must” pre-and…
Toyota has revised a Collision Repair Information Bulletin to carry more definitive and universal language regarding scanning. The old CRIB No. 191 bulletin language dated…
The Society of Collision Repair Specialists announced Tuesday that Key Choice Collision Centers‘ network of 22 Great Plains auto body shops had become SCRS members….
