The New Zealand collision repair industry trade publication PanelTalk recently re-published an interesting article from IBIS (the International Bodyshop Industry Symposium). It focused on the state of the sector in the U.S. but directly mirrors the New Zealand environment. This … Read More
The motor vehicle environment is changing faster now than in any previous time. They’ve never been safer, cheaper, more sophisticated, or had as many fuel options. Self-driving car & truck technology is here, as are full electric vehicles. Shared mbility is … Read More
It’s a fickle world in the corporate shark-tank. It was reported yesterday that IAG’s new Australian Division has adopted a new strategic approach and simplified its structure, sparking a shock-wave of redundancies. http://insurancenews.com.au/…/iag-restructure-results-in-ke…. Perhaps we can look forward to faster NZI … Read More
Kia has become the latest automotive success story, based on 5-star safety, reliability, innovation and growth – and Kia Motors NZ has been at the forefront of the innovation movement. The Kia Motors Incident Care programme is a first for … Read More
The crash in the image is survivable – if you’re wearing a seat-belt. If you don’t belt up, you’ve got the driver safety gun to your own head. In the last five years, over 300 people who died in New … Read More
A woman who spent 12 hours trapped in her freezing car as it lay meters from the road near Taumaranui, would have died from hypothermia if she had been left there for another hour – potentially a serious driver health … Read More
There has been significant (and many would say detrimental) aggregation in the car insurance sector recently, both in NZ and globally. This has resulted in an extreme concentration of power and control affecting both customers and suppliers. As a natural … Read More
You heard it here first – the Commerce Commission has rejected Vero’s bid for Tower Insurance on the basis that it could substantially reduce competition. While making no comment on that, we are asking whether the CommComm was asleep at … Read More
New Zealand’s often overlooked road crash statistics received more profile this week including WorkSafe’s CEO Nicole Rosie in the Herald Business Section and the leading H&S publication SafeGuard magazine. Both highlight that car accidents are a leading cause of work-place … Read More
The company fleet driving hazard is in the media again today, with WorkSafe CEO Nicole Rosie highlighting driver risk in the Herald Business Section, p7. Ms Rosie states that New Zealand’s Health & Safety performance is one of the worst … Read More