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Though it continues to be No. 3 insurer in the united states, Progressive continued to achieve last year on its rivals GEICO assuring Farm, according to National Association of Insurance Commissioners data released last month. Progressive's share of premium dollars rose 1.05 percentage points to 13.3 percent of the private...

Audatex: Weld-through primer on ‘little brackets’ not included The DEG in January drew focus on a current clarification by Audatex on when weld-through primer wasn’t included in a labor time. A DEG user in December 2021 cited Audatex’s Database Reference Manual Section 4-2, which lists “Restoration of corrosion-protective coatings ”...

WIRED magazine on Monday took phone insurance industry’s change to photo-based estimating and photo estimating artificial intelligence — as well as body shops’ criticism of the concepts. The article presents the broader trends featuring multiple collision industry voices highlighting discrepancies between photo-based estimates and just what the businesses actually detect:This...

Legislation related to OEM procedures, labor rate surveys and DRP network promotion produced extensive discussion Monday about how exactly direct repair programs operate in Texas. The House Insurance Committee conversation Monday included a representative for various major insurers declaring their DRP shops are told “‘do what must be done'” for...

A bill amending New York’s shop choice law to preserve collision repairer autonomy on part selection has returned for any fifth legislative try. Assembly Bill 6902 would append Insurance Law 2610 to report that first-party collision and comprehensive insurers could not “require a repair facility to utilize a specific vendor...

The Collision Industry Conference on Wednesday reiterated that it is April 21-22 meeting in Arizona would offer the option of attending personally or virtually over Zoom. “Due to Arizona COVID restrictions, the in-person is restricted to active 2021 Gold Pin participants,” the CIC wrote in a news release. “Those unable...

Estimators, managers and all sorts of other Blueprint Optimization Tool users now can track their success adding operations flagged by the “BOT” as potentially overlooked repair labor. The BOT software allows an accident repairer to automatically apply the "SCRS Help guide to Complete Repair Planning" to an estimate and identify...

An LKQ representative a week ago argued that a Texas bill’s proposed meaning of “like kind and quality” alternative parts unfairly required matching internal automaker specs no OEM will make open to aftermarket vendors. But Tracy Law Firm owner Todd Tracy told the Texas House Insurance Committee it was “disingenuous,”...

Despite the software’s possibility to produce higher repair bills by reminding body shops about operations, insurers have expressed pleasure at the consistency the Blueprint Optimization Tool gives auto body estimates, the Society of Collision Repair Specialists said a week ago. An external industry expert told the trade group he’d observed...

A Connecticut attorney last fall said hello can be necessary during short-pay litigation to rebut the concept that the insurer estimate carries exactly the same weight because the shop’s invoice. “Those two situations are very different documents,” Buckley Wynne & Parese partner John Parese told the virtual "Litigating and Winning...