Former ASA affiliates to become Texas Auto Care Alliance, Mid-Atlantic Auto Care Alliance. The Board of Directors for both the Automotive Service Association of Pennsylvania and ASA Texas have voted to join the Midwest Auto Care Alliance to serve its members in the independent automotive service industry. The moves come in response to all ASA […]
NJM Insurance Group Expands in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Announces launch in Maryland and Delaware. NJM Insurance Group today announced it now offers its full complement of personal and business insurance in Maryland and full line of business insurance in Delaware. “We are pleased to bring NJM’s insurance products and nationally recognized customer satisfaction to Maryland and Delaware consumers,” said Mitch Livingston, NJM president […]
Painters Supply Acquires Five Location Distributor in Mid-Atlantic Region
Painters Supply & Equipment Co. (PSE) announced today that an affiliate of the company has completed the acquisition of Nyquist, Inc. The acquisition adds five locations in the Mid- Atlantic region. Based in Baltimore, Md., Nyquist was founded in 1955 by George Nyquist Sr., who later sold the business to his son George Nyquist Jr. […]
Delaware Approved for Veteran Adjuster Licensing Reimbursement Program
Delaware Insurance Commissioner Trinidad Navarro announced that the Delaware Department of Insurance has been approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for reimbursement of licensing test fees. Veterans that successfully pass the exams for Insurance Producer and Adjuster licenses will now be reimbursed those fees. “This is an exciting announcement for the Department of Insurance. […]
Service King Acquires MSO with Four Collision Repair Centers in Pennsylvania and Delaware
Service King Collision Repair Centers announced it acquired True Collision, a Pittsburgh, Pa. based multiple shop operator with three locations in the Pittsburgh market and one in Delaware. The Delaware location is the first for Service King in the state. They now operate collision repair centers in 24 states. “This is certainly a significant and […]
Spanesi Americas Announces Capital Collision Equipment as New Distributor
Spanesi Americas announced that it is expanding its distribution team to better serve its customers and the collision repair industry. “We are extremely pleased to announce that Dave Hardester, has joined the Spanesi team. Dave will be distributing the complete Spanesi product line in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, and Southeast Pennsylvania as Capital […]
Metropolitan Car-o-liner Expands Territory into Delaware and Maryland
Car-O-Liner announced that Metropolitan Car-o-liner, the first-ever U.S. distributor of Car-O-Liner products, is expanding its territory. Metropolitan’s current service area includes shops throughout New Jersey, Connecticut, eastern Pennsylvania, and eastern New York. They have now acquired the state of Delaware and the remaining part of Maryland on the DELMAR peninsula. “The expansion of our territory […]
Delaware Enacts Photo Appraisal Regulation
The Delaware Department of Insurance published revised regulations allowing the use of photos to prepare an appraisal of auto physical damage. On Sunday, May 1, the Delaware Department of Insurance published in the state’s Register of Regulations revisions to its Regulation 602 governing Motor Vehicle Physical Damage Appraisers that would allow the use of photographs […]
Delaware Insurance Department Proposes to Allow Photo-Video Appraisals
State is latest to consider overturning prohibition against use of photographs to prepare collision repair damage appraisals. The Delaware Department of Insurance has proposed to amend its Regulation 602 relating to Motor Vehicle Physical Damage Appraisers to allow the use of digital images by appraisers. Similar proposals have been proposed in neighboring Pennsylvania and Virginia. […]
ABRA Acquires Delaware Collision Repair Center
ABRA Auto Body & Glass expanded in Delaware Friday with the acquisition of Henry Brothers Auto Body. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. The new repair center is located in Wilmington, about 30 miles southwest of Philadelphia. The acquisition brings the company’s total repair center count to 312 in 23 states. ABRA first entered […]