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U.S. Auto Body Repair and Auto Insurance Prices Grew Faster than Inflation in January

February 22, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

After a monthly decline in December, auto insurance price increases returned in January versus the previous month. Auto body price growth is slower. The most recent government figures on inflation through January 2019 indicate the rate of growth of auto body repair prices has been growing, but is somewhat flat on a month-over-month basis. Even […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Auto Body Repair Prices, consumer price index

U.S. Average Length of Rental Increased in the Fourth Quarter of 2018

February 14, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Increase follows two quarters of flat length of rental results. After flat results in the second and third quarters, Enterprise Rent-A-Car data indicates and increase in the last quarter of 2018. Average Length of Rental (LOR) for Q4 2018 landed at 12.7 days in the United States, an increase of .3 days compared to Q4 […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Length of Rental

Collision Repair Industry Production Up in November

February 5, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Production was up in November versus both 2017 and the previous month. Increases in production employee wage slow. An analysis of the latest data released from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), shows that collision repair industry production in November 2018 was up compared to both 2017 and October. Production remains […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Collision Repair Industry Production

Traffic Volume Increased in November

January 31, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Traffic Volume

Compared to the same month in 2017, traffic volume in the U.S. was up in November. The 12-month rolling average sets new record. Travel volume in November increased on a year-over-year basis. This is the second straight month where the monthly driving total increased on a year-over-year basis after declining in September. In total just […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Traffic Volume

Collision Claims Continued to Decline in Third Quarter

January 17, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Auto physical damage indicators influencing the collision repair industry declined during the third quarter of 2018 compared to the previous year. Claims remain below year ago levels while losses increased. According to the latest available Fast Track Monitoring system data from the Independent Statistical Service Inc. (ISS), private passenger collision claims decreased in the U.S. […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Claims, Losses

U.S. Auto Body Repair Price Growth Higher than Inflation in December

January 16, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Inflation comparison January 2009 to December 2018 auto body work, auto insurance, and CPI

U.S. auto body repair prices in December were up both month-on-month and year-on-year. The most recent government figures on inflation through December 2018 indicate the rate of growth of auto body repair prices has started to increase again after slowing somewhat during the first several months of the year. While general inflation declined at the […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Auto Body Repair Prices, Auto Insurance, CPI, Inflation

Collision Repair Industry Production Down in September

January 4, 2019 By CollisionWeek Editor

Production was down in September versus both 2017 and the previous month. Production hourly wage up nearly 3 percent versus previous year. An analysis of the latest data released from the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), shows that collision repair industry production in September was down compared to both last year […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Collision Repair Industry Production

Collision Repair Industry Business Conditions: Q3 2018

December 13, 2018 By CollisionWeek Editor

Collision Repair Industry Business Conditions Q3 2018

Collision repair shops reporting higher sales in the quarter compared to last year declined over 8 percentage points compared to the previous quarter’s survey. Shops reporting higher earnings up in the third quarter. The CollisionWeek quarterly survey of business conditions reported by collision repair facility owners and managers indicates that the overall percentage of facilities […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Business Conditions

Auto Physical Damage Insurance Underwriting Profit Up in 2017

December 11, 2018 By CollisionWeek Editor

NAIC Auto Physical Damage Profit including investment gains

The latest statistics from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners indicates that the private passenger auto physical damage insurance returned to profit in 2017. Data contained in the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) report on profitability by insurance line in 2017, released this month, showed some improvement in private passenger auto physical damage (APD) […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: Auto Insurance, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, Profitability

Big 4 Collision Repair MSO Location Growth in North America Exceeds Last Year

December 5, 2018 By CollisionWeek Editor

Big 4 Collision Repair MSO growth

The Caliber-ABRA merger focuses attention on the large MSO growth. With more than three weeks left in 2018, ABRA, Boyd, Caliber and Service King have already grown their total number of locations at both a higher unit and percentage growth rate compared to last year. With ABRA’s announcement on December 4 that its latest acquisitions […]

Filed Under: Research Tagged With: ABRA, Boyd Group, Caliber Collision Centers, MSO Repair Center Growth, Service King Collision Repair Centers

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