Insurer, OEM strategies promote auto body networks as early as point of sale
— March 8, 2016A Progressive email and OEM marketing for customers demonstrate how both sides can tout their respective
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Subaru global platform will debut with 2017 Impreza, offer more rigidity, use high-strength steels
— March 8, 2016All next-generation Subarus starting with the Impreza on sale later this year will feature a rigid,
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Done deal: Vista Equity closes $6.5B acquisition of AudaExplore parent Solera
— March 4, 2016Calling it the “next phase of Solera’s global expansion,” AudaExplore parent company
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CCC: DRP share of appraisals holds steady in 40% range, shifts from regional to national MSOs with consolidation
— March 4, 2016After booming in the 1990s, direct repair program shop volume has leveled off to a less than 45 percent
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Thatcham says autobraking cuts premiums 10%; Consumer Reports adjusts scores to push tech
— March 3, 2016Consumer Reports announced last month it will give extra credit to models with autobraking, and Thatcham
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Buffett: Higher GEICO claims losses welcome for boosting premiums/’float’
— March 3, 2016The next time a GEICO adjustor gets upset over your bill, tell him you’re just helping his company.
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CCC Crash Course: 70% of appraisals had lightweight part — up from 11.1% just 10 years ago
— March 2, 2016In a decade, the number of vehicles with at least one lightweight part grew from 11.1 percent of vehicles
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CCC releases annual ‘Crash Course’ report at ‘inflection point’ for shops, insurers
— March 2, 2016Calling both the auto insurance and collision repair industries at an “inflection point,”
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LKQ straddles OEM, aftermarket glass worlds with $635M purchase of PGW
— March 2, 2016LKQ’s $635 million acquisition of Pittsburgh Glass Works not only launches the aftermarket collision
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Costa: Canadian CARSTAR’s work on insurance, division of shop labor, OEMs could come to U.S.
— March 1, 2016The accelerated merger of U.S. and Canadian CARSTAR operations could also accelerate the sharing of some
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