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State Farm has dropped its platform-agnostic policy and can require Select Service collision repairers to make use of CCC by next spring, calling it dependent on customer support and streamlining. “While State Farm has historically allowed repairers in the Select Service network to make use of any of the three...

Nearly 40 % of collision repairers itemize time spent researching diagnostic trouble codes rather than bundling this labor in their scanning time, based on the latest “Who Will pay for What?” survey. The October 2021 poll saw 61 percent of auto body shops indicating their bills’ scanning line item might...

Incoming Collision Industry Conference Chairman Darrell Amberson challenged the Nov. 10-11, 2021, virtual CIC audience to create someone new to the upcoming inter-industry summit. Circumstances since that time make it easier still to meet his call. Originally, the January 2021 CIC ended up being to be held in the Phoenix,...

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...

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...

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...