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If your auto body shop’s business model depends on income from total loss storage, you might desire to reconsider, an accident industry expert and a telematics provider recently suggested. Technology allowing insurers to classify and redirect totals up front could stop what Collision Advice CEO Mike Anderson referred to as...

Chief announced Tuesday it would this hail season present an automated system in a position to identify and measure vehicle hail dents and convey an estimate to fix them. The Constellation technology “eliminates the requirement for an adjuster to manually evaluate the damage,” Chief wrote inside a news release, calling...

Enterprise Holdings announced Monday a brand new pilot program according to Ranken Technical College’s hybrid school-and-shop collision vocational education model. The Automotive Collision Engineering Pilot Program will run two years and debut in the Saint Louis, Mo.-based Ranken; Contra Costa College in San Pablo, Calif.; Texas State Technical College in...

CCC reported that repairable auto vehicle claims were down 21.3 % in 2021 — and 26 % if comprehensive claims were discarded. The second quarter proved the worst for auto body shops, with all repairable claims down 35 % from 2021. Claims proceeded to hover at around 20 percent throughout...

A ValuePenguin “State of Car insurance in 2021” report announced a week ago estimated that auto insurance rates this season represent a 1.7 percent decline — the first reduction in more than a decade. “The speed decrease in 2021 is an anomaly caused by fewer Americans driving in 2021 due...

The Mustang Mach-E just won Motor Trend “SUV of the season,” GM just redid its logo to worry electrification, and Volkswagen’s all-electric $39,995 ID.4 goes on sale “within weeks.” Charging networks are expanding nationwide. Some OEMs have even committed to ditching internal combustion engine-only powertrains in support of fleets that...

Canadian safety charity Parachute announced an inaugural telematics competition to find “Canada’s Safety Driver” produced sustained improvement in the riskiest competitors. But nearly all competitors “returned to their old habits by contest end, notably in the measures of aggressive driving as along with phone distraction,” according to Parachute. Parachute said...

The latest “Who Will pay for What?” survey found about half the body shops polled reporting that eight major insurers reimburse invoiced aluminum labor rates always or more often than not. The percentages of shops seeing that consistency fell slightly from 2021, though it’s unclear if these declines were inside...

Advanced driver assistance systems calibrations produce an example of what economics terms a “credence good,” CIC Industry Relations Committee Co-Chairman Jonathan Chase observed Wednesday. A credence good represents a black box to the consumer buying it. They can’t begin to see the fruits of the labor they’ve purchased. A consumer...

Calling the Database Enhancement Gateway’s information “invaluable” to both association members and the collision industry, the Carolinas Collision Association has joined the ranks of DEG Gold sponsors. "CCA is extremely proud to partner using the DEG,” CCC President Kyle Bradshaw said in a statement Thursday. “The DEG is a superb...