I-CAR Education Foundation Holds Ninth Annual Golf Fundraiser
The event, presented by PPG Automotive Refinish, raises more than $30,000 for scholarships and school grants.
The Alliance of Automotive Service Providers of Minnesota (AASP-MN) Announces Fall Seminar Line-Up
Four seminars offered covering business and tech topics.
AkzoNobel Honors Most Influential Women in Collision Repair Industry at 11th Annual Celebration
AkzoNobel started the Most Influential Women program in 1998 to recognize the unique leadership characteristics, accomplishments and contributions of women to the collision repair industry.
SEMA Show Enhances Offerings for Paint and Body Market
The 2010 SEMA Show takes place Nov. 2-5 in Las Vegas.
Society of Collision Repair Specialists Launches Educational Seminar Series in Atlanta
First of several seminars being introduced to repair markets across America generates outstanding feedback.
Society of Collision Repair Specialists Hires New Executive Director
Schulenburg currently serves as the administrator of the Database Enhancement Gateway (DEG).
ABRA Becomes Platinum Sponsor of the Database Enhancement Gateway
SMYRNA, DE – ABRA Body and Glass has become the second Platinum Sponsor of the Database Enhancement Gateway (DEG) initiative to offer collision estimating system end-users an alternative for handling inquiries regarding collision repair data. The Database Enhancement Gateway is an initiative that enables those who use collision repair estimating databases to provide feedback to
Fraud Questions from Public Meetings Debated on Video
Collision Industry News, a service of Assured Performance Network, a non-profit consumer advocacy organization and body shop co-op, officially released the edited videos of the two public meetings regarding a discussion of potential insurance fraud through low-balling estimates. The meetings that are covered by the videos were a result of a debate that started during the CIC meeting prior to NACE, November 2006.
OBITUARY: Collision Industry Veteran March Taylor Passes Away
BodyShop Business contributor and collision repair shop owner March Taylor died tragically over the weekend after suffering a heart attack while diving in Hawaii. He was 59. Taylor owned Auto Body Hawaii in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Not your typical shop owner, he worked alongside his employees as a technician. This, he said, gave him “the opportunity to see things how they really are. I’m not disconnected from production or management.”
CIC Database Task Force Meets with Information Providers
BEDFORD, TX — The Collision Industry Conference (CIC) Database Task Force and four major estimating system providers recently concluded a series of meetings in an effort to enhance the accuracy and functionality of the estimating systems used by the collision repair community to estimate the cost to fix today’s high-tech vehicles. The CIC Database Task