Boyd Group Services, operator of Gerber Collision & Glass, announced that CEO Timothy O’Day will step down from his role, effective May 14, 2025 and he will be succeeded by Brian Kaner, the current ...

One month later, we've closed the poll on the question we asked about State Farm lowering labor rates in your area. We also received some comments from shop owners and operators for whom the insurer ...

Collision repair volume is declining — but not because people stopped crashing. The real shift is behavioral. Today’s claim environment is shaped less by accident frequency and more by consumer ...

Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes introduced Collision Core Pronto XL, a fully automated solution for commercial vehicle paint operations, in a news release. The new dispenser is integrated with ...

Last week, McGovern Auto Group (MAG) announced the grand opening of the MAG Collision Center, McGovern’s new flagship body shop and the largest body shop in the Northeast. This center promises to ...

The Automotive Lift Institute (ALI) has released its 2026 Lifting Points Guide, Vehicle Lifting Points for Frame Engaging Lifts. Produced annually by MOTOR Information Systems, the Lifting Points ...

Consolidators, accelerators, and independent MSOs remain undaunted in their pursuit of growth. In a year that saw interest rates more than double, shop rates and repair costs surge more than 10% and ...

In the last five months, more than $9 billion in capital has been invested into the collision repair industry by private equity firms. The biggest chunk of this new capital was $4.6 billion in debt ...

On December 5, U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced William Oldham Mize to 12 years in federal prison for a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme involving false and fabricated insurance claims, ...

Having run hundreds of performance groups over the past 40 years, I was challenged by FenderBender to recap the main topics the groups discuss. So, this will be a four-part series focusing on ideas to ...

OEConnection LLC (“OEC” or the “Company”), the leading global automotive technology provider for OEM distribution networks, and Genstar Capital (“Genstar”), today announced they have finalized a deal ...

David Krause spent a lot of time throughout his 30-year automotive career waiting for the industry to catch up. Krause, a fourth-generation electrical technician, owns Platinum Programming and ...