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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...

NJM Insurance said it discarded its March 31 cutoff for COVID-19 vehicle cleaning charges and instead would reimburse the operation “for the near future." The insurer as late as Friday was declaring it would not purchase the work effective April 1. "Effective 4/1/2021, NJM won't be accepting the charges for...

The telematics company Arity on Friday announced companies could leverage its Core Driving Risk Audiences service and market themselves to drivers of numerous skill levels. For example, an insurer could pitch premium discounts to blocs of excellent drivers and entice them to switch carriers. This may be hugely lucrative for...

USAA, the nation’s fifth-largest auto insurer, confirmed Tuesday it will keep covering COVID-19 auto cleaning through June 30. “We're extending cleaning through June 30, 2021,” USAA spokeswoman Lara Hendrickson wrote within an email each day before what would have been the last day's such reimbursement. This news follows at least...

NJM Insurance on Tuesday said hello discarded its March 31 deadline for COVID-19 vehicle cleaning charges and instead would reimburse the operation “for that near future." The insurer as late as Friday was declaring it would not pay for the work effective April 1. "Effective 4/1/2021, NJM won't be accepting...

An insurance trade group including major national carriers on Monday told Texas lawmakers it had no issue with the idea of requiring OEM repair procedures. But the Texas Coalition for reasonable Insurance Solutions still opposed House Bill 1131 on grounds including a desire for parts competition, Executive Director Beaman Floyd...

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,”...

More than half of body shops polled in the latest “Who Will pay for What?” survey said leading national insurers “always” or “the majority of the time” reimburse the cost of masking the engine compartment. The response by 51 percent of the a lot more than 500 shops surveyed in...

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...

With the exception of State Farm, insurers still fail to frequently reimburse collision repairer charges for feather, prime and block, the most recent “Who Will pay for What?” survey found. Only 39 percent of hundreds of responding shops reported eight major national insurers covered the refinishing operation “always” or “the...