Guidewire Connections 2019
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Property Damage Appraisers Gets Customers Back to Their Lives Faster by Helping Carriers Deliver on Their Promises
What began in 1963 as four fraternity brothers looking for additional work between classes has grown into a nationwide franchise organization. With 650+ appraisers serving thousands of clients, Property Damage Appraisers (PDA) completes an astonishing 450,000 estimates annually for auto, heavy equipment and property claims. How does a company that started as a college side project become one of the most successful damage estimating corporations in the nation?
The SEMA Show 2018
The SEMA Show is the premier automotive specialty products trade event in the world, drawing the industry’s brightest minds and
KPI Spotlight: Percentage of Repair for Individual Part Types
In our recent article, “Mitchell Collision Repair Industry Data: Q2 2018”, we discussed the importance of monitoring the overall percentage of parts repaired. While this is an important step to help ensure the correct decision-making behaviors are being put into practice by appraisers in the field, it is the first of many. The next step to improving performance in regards to overall percentage of parts repaired is to look at repair percentages for individual major component parts.
The Impact of Tariffs on the Automotive Claims Industry
There has been a significant amount of press coverage surrounding the potential imposition of a 25 percent tariffs on automobiles and auto parts imported to the United States from countries that have previously received “most favored nation” status, incurring tariffs of only 2.5 percent. The proposed tariff increase emerged as a response from the Trump administration to increasing globalization of the auto industry.
Canadian Collision Summary: Q2 2018
At the request of our clients and friends in Canada, we are pleased to provide the following Canada-specific statistics, observations, and trends. All dollar-figures appearing in this section are in CDN$. This data is the product of upload activity from body shops, independent appraisers, and insurance personnel, more accurately depicting insurance-paid loss activity, rather than consumer direct or retail market pricing.
Average Length of Rental for Repairable Vehicles: Q2 2018
Average Length of Rental (LOR) for Q2 2018 landed at 11.6 days in the United States, an increase of 0.1 days compared to Q2 2017. This stagnation in the 2nd Quarter is now an official trend after similar results in 2017 and 2016. Once again, there was very little consistency between regions and states, suggesting that the quarterly result for the U.S. is not reflective of a genuine national course.