What’s New: In Brief (April 02, 2008)

ING Insurance has announced an average reduction in automobile rates of 4.6% for consumers in Nova Scotia. The reduction in premiums is intended to benefit young drivers with clean driving records, as well as experienced drivers, the company says. Those who insure both their homes and their cars with ING’s home and auto combined policy will benefit from a higher premium discount, according to an ING release. “We continuously monitor trends in claims and other cost-related factors at ING and we are pleased to share with consumers the benefits of the continuing reduction in claims costs in the province,” lan Blair, ING’s senior vice president of the Atlantic division, said in the release.

PPG CertifiedFirst network of collision repair centres now has access to the line of Mitchell management systems, as part of a preferred vendor partnership between PPG Canada Inc and Mitchell International Inc. Mitchell offers technologies to give repairers powerful tools that add efficiency to business operations and help them connect to leading business partners, according to a PPG release”PPG is pleased to be able to offer CertifiedFirst Members a great choice in management systems,” Jeffery Murphy, marketing programs manager at PPG, said in the release. “Mitchell’s ABS and ABSe Collision Shop Management Software provides profit-enhancing functions that can turn any shop into a more productive enterprise, something that the CertifiedFirst collision repair centres are looking to do.”The preferred vendor partnership will be in effect from Mar. 14, 2008 until further notice.