Enterprise: Collision repair process factors, not weather, likely caused uptick in rental times
— August 10, 2015Average collision repair vehicle rental times increased by a third of a day last quarter and were half
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Chronicle: Independent Texas doctors’ struggles mirror auto body shops’
— August 10, 2015A Saturday Houston Chronicle article describing the difficulties faced by Texas independent doctors
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Berkshire Hathaway: Auto insurance losses prompting GEICO to raise rates again
— August 10, 2015GEICO, like Allstate, was injured by its second-quarter increases in crash frequency and severity, resulting
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Progressive’s solid 2Q could be good news for repairers
— August 6, 2015Progressive is “comfortable” with its 7.5 percent margin on its insurance business, and seems
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Allstate plans rate increases, tighter claims handling to address 2Q auto losses
— August 4, 2015Allstate plans to continue rate increases and tighten underwriting to address growing auto losses seen
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MyPriceLink in-depth: Other auto OEMs expected to follow GM on real-time pricing
— August 4, 2015Other OEMs will likely shift to real-time pricing too, estimating service representatives said last
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Axalta guest column: The challenges and solutions for painting advanced-material auto bodies
— July 31, 2015Editor’s note: We haven’t done as much coverage at Repairer Driven News for refinishers
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Repairers abroad, take note: GM spending $5B to deliver advanced Chevy exports
— July 29, 2015As usual, General Motors is keeping its cards close to the vest, but collision repairers in Brazil, China,
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GM: Chevy Malibu pedestrian auto-braking among 22 new safety technologies in ’16 MY
— July 28, 2015The all-new 2016 Chevrolet Malibu, one of Chevrolet’s most popular vehicles, will automatically
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Baltimore Sun/Towson Times provides look into lives of pro ‘storm chasers’
— July 27, 2015A recent Baltimore Sun post gives an interesting perspective on the lives of “storm chasers”
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