Will spend up to four years in state prison for obstructing criminal trial. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced yesterday that two collision repair facility employees have been sentenced to prison after pleading guilty to corrupting witnesses and making bribes for false testimony as part of a conspiracy to obtain acquittals at a March 2012 […]
Safelite AutoGlass Opening Two Locations in Boston Market
Safelite AutoGlass continues to invest in the Boston area, opening two new store locations this summer with plans to hire additional technicians in the fall. Safelite currently employs 260 people in greater Boston. Thanks to growing customer preference, Safelite is opening shops just north of downtown and in Worchester County. Located at 39 Massachusetts Ave., […]
Shop Profitability Seminars Scheduled in Connecticut and Massachusetts
“We’re the only $60 billion industry in America that charges $30 billion for our work” say Tony Lombardozzi and Peter Abdelmaseh, owners of Superare Advertising + Marketing Agency in Belmont, Mass., and they believe auto body repair shops have been offering a “perpetual half-price sale” for decades and don’t have to do that anymore! Two […]
DCR Systems Opens Dealer-Based Collision Repair Center in Massachusetts
DCR partners with Coastal Dealerships and The Gallery Group to form The Collision Center of Rockland DCR Systems announced its sixth dealer-based accident repair center near Boston in partnership with Coastal Dealerships of Norwell and one of DCR’s existing centers, The Gallery Group in Norwood and Rockland, Mass. The center was completed in early 2016. […]
Massachusetts Bill Seeks to Set Minimum Collision Repair Labor Rate
Legislation would authorize the Commissioner of Insurance to establish minimum rates paid by insurers to collision repair facilities. Legislation recently introduced in Massachusetts, House Bill 4197 (HB 4197) seeks to provide the Commissioner of Insurance with the authority to establish minimum labor rates paid by automobile insurers for collision repairs in the Commonwealth. HB 4197 […]
AASP/MA Reports Standardized Auto Policy Withdrawn
The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of Massachusetts (AASP/MA) and the Statewide Towing Association of Massachusetts (STA), announced that due to o pressure from the two industry associations, the Automobile Insurance Bureau (AIB), the association of insurers, has withdrawn their recently filed standard auto policy for Massachusetts. A new policy has been filed by AIB […]
Massachusetts Legislators Pass Right to Repair Bill
Compromise with automakers sends last minute bill to Governor’s desk. Massachusetts lawmakers have passed a last minute compromise bill to settle the Right to Repair dispute over OEM diagnostic information. The language of the bill was proposed in a joint letter on Tuesday to lawmakers from car manufacturer associations and the Right to Repair Coalition. […]
Massachusetts Court Upholds Shop’s Right to a Reasonable Labor Rate
In what is believed to be the first court ruling in Massachusetts where a court upheld in a first party claim the right of a policyholder to be paid a labor rate other than what the insurer set, District Court Judge Paul V. Buckley, Jr. ruled that Arbella Mutual Insurance Company must pay its insured […]
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