Fix Auto has signed of a partnership agreement between Fix Auto China and the People’s Insurance Company of China (PICC), which handles about 20 million claims each year. The collaborative agreement was announced during a signing ceremony held at Fix Auto China’s first annual national conference in Suzhou on 27-28 November, which was attended by [...]

A Mercedes dealership accused of demanding a ‘mafia-style’ bribe from a New York bodyshop in exchange for renewing an OEM certification sponsorship has fired back with a defamation countersuit. An attorney for Celebrity Auto of Westchester accused North State Custom and owner Greg Coccaro Jr of acting ‘in reckless disregard for the truth when they [...]

International expert organisation DEKRA officially opened its connected car test area in Malaga, Spain as part of its international network for connected, automated and electric driving. At the opening, DEKRA’s experts organised two live connected car demos utilising BMW vehicles and showed some of the scenarios DEKRA has developed to test V2X technologies (vehicle-to-everything e.g. [...]

Consultants The Romans Group has published a white paper which predicts a slowing down of consolidation within the North American collision repair market. Its 11th annual Advancing Our Insights into the 2016 Collision Repair Marketplace report says, ‘Consolidation within the collision repair industry is slowing and we now have at least one ‘category killer’ among [...]