Implementing a means of keeping customers in the loop through text messages and educating them with photo evidence might prove as successful for collision repairers…
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If an insurer proclaims a certain labor rate reflects the market but won’t reveal the data behind that amount, repairers might have a means of…
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Auto body shops and insurers will encounter another new piece of technology in prime collision real estate with the upcoming next-generation 2020 BMW X6. BMW…
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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a California federal judge improperly cut the damages awarded a body shop owner who alleged Sherwin-Williams…
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Flush with another $100 million investment, Luminar on Thursday announced it would bring cheap, compact LiDAR to the personal and commercial vehicle markets starting in…
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Collision repairers will encounter martensitic ultra-high-strength steel tubes running from the A-pillar to C-pillar and “plentiful boron” on the 2020 Ford Escape, according to a…
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Both houses of the California Legislature have approved a bill ensuring an insurer can’t force a consumer to have a vehicle repaired and reiterating that…
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The California Department of Insurance while developing its current labor rate survey regulations in 2016 removed its plan to require insurers make public the posted…
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Collision repairers, auto recyclers and OEMs might have a new and potentially lucrative means of disposing of bumper fascias: Give them to the plastics industry…
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CARSTAR President Michael Macaluso on Tuesday said for the first time, multiple “OE partners” were represented at the company’s 2019 Conference. He guaranteed “double that”…
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