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Louisiana Legislation Seeks to Increase Fines for Insurance Company Collision Repair and Auto Glass Steering

May 30, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Louisiana House Bill 411

Legislation passed by the House of Representatives would expand the state’s anti-steering law and double fines for an initial offense and a 10 times increase for third and subsequent offenses. Louisiana House of Representative legislation currently before the Louisiana Senate would expand the state’s existing insurance company steering prohibitions for collision repair and auto glass […]

Filed Under: Feature Tagged With: Anti-Steering, legislation, Louisiana

Maaco Opens New Location in New Mexico

May 30, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Maaco Collision Repair and Auto Painting announced that franchise owner Jeff Schultz has opened a new center at 2101 1st Street NW, in Albuquerque, N.M. This is the second Maaco center to open in Albuquerque this year, the first one at 6147 Zuni Road SE opened in January and is also owned by Schultz. Schultz, […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: MAACO, Network Affiliations, New Mexico

John Norris, Long Time Collision Repair Industry Association Executive in Canada, Passes Away

May 30, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

John Norris, chairman of the Canadian Automotive Service Information Standard (CASIS), board member of the National Automotive Trade Association (NATA), and executive director of the Hamilton District Autobody Repair Association (HARA) and Collision Industry Information Assistance since 1988 passed away suddenly yesterday. Norris had been attending the Automotive Technology Summit at the Skills Canada competition […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Canada, Obituary, People

I-CAR Announces 23 Sustaining Partners

May 30, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

One year after the I-CAR Sustaining Partner program’s launch in early 2018, I-CAR announced that the number of partners has grown to 23. One of the program’s key goals is to generate additional funding that helps I-CAR deliver quality training to collision repairers and educational institutions. Sustaining Partners also support I-CAR’s mission of ensuring that […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: I-CAR

Chris Fanning Named Chief Executive Officer at KPA

May 29, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

KPA, the provider of Environmental Health & Safety (EHS), HR Management and Finance & Insurance compliance software and services, announced the appointment of Chris Fanning as President and Chief Executive Officer of the company. Fanning succeeds Vane Clayton, who has served as CEO since 2006. Clayton will continue to serve on the KPA board of […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: KPA, People, Providence Equity Partners

Minnesota Legislation Seeks to Enact New Collision Repair Steering Restrictions

May 29, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Minnesota HF 2919

Legislation would also prohibit insurers from disregarding estimating system procedure pages or OEM collision repair procedures. A bill introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives on May 20 seeks to amend the state’s existing standards for automobile claims handling expanding restrictions on steering prohibiting an insurer from attempting to influence consumers choice of a repair […]

Filed Under: Feature Tagged With: Anti-Steering, legislation, Minnesota, OEM Repair Procedures

Fix Auto USA Enters Minnesota With Two Franchise Collision Repair Centers

May 29, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Fix Auto USA announced the addition of two franchise collision repair locations in Minn., marking the tenth state for the franchise network of independently-owned repairers looking to compete in a consolidating marketplace. These two new locations, Fix Auto Brooklyn Park and Fix Auto Maple Grove, are locally owned and operated by Franchise Partner Matthew Feehan; […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Fix Auto USA, Minnesota, Network Affiliations

Jeffrey Tarr Named CEO of Solera Holdings

May 29, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Solera Holdings, Inc. announced that Jeff Tarr has joined the company as a director and its new CEO. Tarr, who replaces Tony Aquila as Solera’s CEO, will be leading the company in its next phase of growth. Tarr has two decades of experience leading data and technology-enabled services companies spanning multiple sectors. Most recently, Tarr […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: People, Solera Holdings

Mitchell Releases Integrated Repair Procedures

May 29, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Mitchell today announced enhanced integration capabilities during the creation of estimates and collision repair plans, within an update to Mitchell Cloud Estimating. Initially released in early 2018 at the category level, this latest update integrates OEM repair procedures and service information directly within an estimate. While vehicle manufacturers have traditionally made repair procedure information available […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Estimating Systems, Mitchell International, OEM Repair Procedures

Auto Sales Projected to Slow in May

May 28, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

May 2019 Auto Sales Projection

J.D. Power and LMC Automotive forecast lower May sales compared to 2018. Average prices break records. New-vehicle retail sales in May are expected to fall from a year ago, according to a forecast developed jointly by J.D. Power and LMC Automotive. Retail sales are projected to reach 1,226,800 units, a 3.1 percent decrease compared with […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: J.D. Power, LMC Automotive, New Vehicle Sales

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