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AGRR Companies Assess Damage from Louisiana Floods, State Farm Comments on Flooding
by Jenna Reed, glassBYTES.com
Eleven are dead and more than 40,000 homes have been affected by the heavy deluge of rain and floods in Baton
Rouge, LA, that began August 12. Some AGRR companies are just now getting back up and running while others were luckily enough to escape the water’s wrath. “We’ve been closed since Friday [August 12],” says Kristen Miles, owner of a Clear View Auto Glass in Baton Rouge, La. “We’re all right, but our home office got flooded. We probably won’t be able to get back into the house until Monday [August 15].” See Louisiana Floods, Page 16
CAA Board of Directors Kicks Off Important Role at 2016 NACE
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The California Autobody Association (CAA) had a hectic schedule at this year’s NACE | CARS Conference and Exposition as the organization held its quarterly Board of Directors meeting and hosted two key presentations on Aug. 11 and 12. By bringing in a panel of top speakers from the Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR) along with the California Insurance Commissioner, Dave Jones for well-attended presentations, body shops from San Diego to San Francisco flocked to see both events.
The CAA took the main stage at NACE | CARS for at least a few days in Anaheim and the organization came through with flying colors, according to Dan Risley, ASA president and executive director. “Many of the issues that California deals with can impact the rest of the country,” he said. “The CAA programs offered during the show were of interest to California businesses, but for shop owners from around the country as well.” To get a glimpse into how an organization such as CAA operates and performs its role in California, ABN sat in on their third-quarter Board of
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CDI Commissioner Dave Jones Addresses Shops and Insurers at NACE by Ed Attanasio
If you own a body shop in California, you would likely agree that current Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones has been proactively helping the collision industry since day one. Jones was first elected in 2010 and reelected in 2014 to lead the California Department of Insurance and regulate the California insurance market. Insurers collect $259 billion a year in premiums in California, making it the largest insurance market in the nation. On August 12 at the NACE | CARS Conference and Exposition in Anaheim, CA, Jones gave a 30-minute presentation and industry update, including a report on proposed labor rate survey regulations and how they will affect shops and insurers. He also talked about anti-steering regulations and how they will protect consumers
and shops. He also discussed crash parts and other issues that might affect consumers in the auto body industry now and in the future.
Dave Jones gave a 30-minute presentation that was packed with information, followed by a brief Q&A session
In many ways, Jones’s speech was his department’s state of the union address, in which he described See CDI’s Dave Jones, Page 22
CIC Presentation Highlights Issues that Pre- and Post-Repair Scans Raise for the Industry
ber Fred Iantorno said. “It’s just that there’s a need in the marketplace for A Collision Industry Conference (CIC) that.” committee charged with looking at With that in mind, the commitemerging technology in the industry tee’s presentation focused on the quesargues that more guidelines and contions related to scanning that it hopes sensus is needed within the to bring automakers, insurindustry on when pre- and ers, tool-makers and collision post-repair scans are necesrepairers together to address. sary, and over fair compensaRozint noted, for example, that in-house scanning by tion for that work. collision repair shops could “I don’t think it’s neceshave the least impact on cycle sarily correct to say every retime and repair costs, yet pair needs to be scanned Jack Rozint before or after, and it’s cershops report more difficulty tainly not correct to say that only 1-in- in getting paid for in-house scans than 10 cars needs to be scanned,” com- those that are sublet to dealerships or mittee chairman Jack Rozint said at outside vendors. The costs related to scanning are the CIC in Anaheim, Calif., in August. “It’s definitely somewhere in between real, Rozint noted. Buying OEM scan tools for just the Top 10 nameplates there.” “It’s not that this body is going to would cost a shop more than $100,000, set those guidelines,” committee memSee CIC Focus on Scans, Page 28 by John Yoswick
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