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Daily Mail - 5,000 firms chasing car insurance claims... and 700 of them have been struck off, PM to chair Downing St summit on this crisis

Daily Mail - Transport Secretary Justine Greening: government to tackle the problem of garages that overcharge on an insurance repair

Audatex - confirm increase of 5.63% in paint index from Monday 6 February

Volvo Trucks - how safety development has moved from passive safety to active safety

PPG - introduce unique flexible system to match any low gloss OEM finishes

Spies Hecker - the benefits of a paint system

Allianz - new Operating Guide for non-approved repairers available for Club members

Sherwin-Williams - appoint Doug Slicker (ex Pro-Spray) as UK market manager

Nationwide - choose Bodyline range from Brown Brothers Bodyline as their dry goods partner

FSA - announces 15.6% increase in funding requirements for next year, up to £578 million

Helphire - issue media statement about the Accident Exchange / Autofous case

Remit - goes ‘back to the floor’ for National Apprenticeship Week (6th to 10th February)

Admiral - extend current successful reinsurance arrangements until at least 2014

Weather - white weekend in store! Three inches of snow to fall across England on Saturday as cold snap grips Britain

BEN - launch charity cycle challenge at Rockingham speedway circuit on 16 March

Peugeot - to stay out of short-cycle business such as courtesy cars

Inter-est - Vision estimating solution chosen by Lex Autolease for its Swift Panel Repair Program

WNS / Helphire - Helphire cancelled agreement due to low level of hires, claims WNS

WARNING - new generation of malicious emails that infect your PC as soon as you open the email to read it

Weather - forecasters warn that extreme cold will grip the country over the next few days

Volkswagen Group - introduce their new Modular Transverse Matrix (MQB)

Chevrolet - launch "Chevrolet First", a new accident aftercare programme that is free for all owners regardless of vehicle age

Credit hire - seven Autofocus employees face jail for “industrial scale perjury” in cases involving Accident Exchange

XL Motors awarded 2011 Peugeot Independent Bodyshop of the Year with support from Audatex technology

Autoclimate restructures and appoints Chris Phipps as Sales Director

Hastings Direct's car insurance awarded Defaqto 5 Star Rating

I Love Claims 3rd Annual Motor Claims Conference - 3 May, Ricoh Arena

Guardian - "Insurance lobbyists were briefed by mandarins over legal reform"

Government to focus on the reliability and standards of garages but abandons plans to change MOT frequency

Axa UK - launches £20 million marketing campaign entitled "Where others ask why? AXA asks Why Not?"

Motor claims: The rise of fraudulent compensation claims

Fix Auto Rotherham - calls meeting of creditors

Accident Exchange - likely to receive huge payouts from insurers as "suspect" Autofocus cases head to the House of Lords

ABP Club website - record breaking start to the year with 85,000 visits in January viewing 1/4 million pages; also record month for Forum

Ford - to unveil new B-Max at Geneva motor show in March; car has no B-post and sliding rear doors

RBS - former chief Sir Fred Goodwin stripped of his Knighthood

Ministry of Justice - delays no-win, no-fee reforms by 6 months from Oct 2012 to April 2013

Harborne Accident Repair Centre Ltd , formerly Fix Auto Birmingham South - wound-up and liquidated

DWS - Zolfo Cooper write to creditors regarding the sale of the business, amounts due and directors' conduct

IMI - to create 16 new jobs as part of a programme of work to benefit the automotive sector

Brake calls for compulsory eye tests for drivers

Audatex - Jason Moseley moves to become Associate Managing Director for Audatex Canada

Just Car Clinics - mobile glass service"exceeding expectations"

Volkswagen - poised to complete buy-out of Porsche

M6 toll road - charges go up on 1 March to £5.50 for cars during daytime on weekdays

Hastings - survey reveals rising petrol prices will push 1 in 5 drivers off the road; 73% have cut down on car use

AW Repair Group opens new repair facility and HQ

Allianz, Aviva and Axa - Standard and Poor's ratings agency puts them on "negative outlook" due to their exposure to Eurozone crisis

ABP Club February meeting reminder - pre-meeting dinner sold out!

Lotus - buyout rumoured

BSI - what happens to the Kitemark when a company changes ?

Capita - add to their insurance portfolio with acquisition of Fish Administration

RBS - group chief executive, Stephen Hester, turns down his £963,000 bonus

Motoring fines set to rise from £60 to £100 to pay for victims' support

Government - drop proposed overhaul of pre-pack administration rules; ABI unhappy

Whiplash - proposal that UK adopts German minimum impact speed of 6mph for whiplash payments

Referral fees - Mail on Sunday "GP: I was asked to sign patient off for a year for whiplash"

Referral fees - Mail on Sunday Jack Straw says "honest drivers pay the price for this web of scams"

Referral fees - Mail on Sunday "The great whiplash backlash; How one man fought back against bogus car insurance claims"

World's First Dedicated Lean Conference for the Accident Repair Industry!

Crash for cash - naive motorist spared jail in £50K fraud scam

iris urges bodyshops to consider the benefits of direct marketing

Euro Car Parts fuels economic growth with new stores

Helphire ends their commercial relationship with WNS

Daily Telegraph 's Mr Money: Insurance costs to go through the roof – again

Subaru - launch EToC, a free 3-year aftersales package including £300 contibution to excess, acc man, minor dent and alloy wheel repairs

BBC Radio 4 Moneybox - this Saturday at noon: why don't insurers check a vehicle history before insuring it?

EXCLUSIVE: DWS - the full details behind their pre-packaged sale; business was offered to 12 potential purchasers