With dealers and lenders scrambling to offer payment relief to consumers in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, they need to pay attention to the effect it may have on a potential GAP claim.
The world has changed over the last few months with COVID-19, and we’re all going to have to find our new normal. To do so, we all must stand tall and stand together.
There is an increasing number of car thieves using identity theft to steal vehicles. And rather than going after cars on the street, they’re targeting dealers.
There are many parallels between COVID-19 and compliance, as both are different varieties of disaster and require planning and foresight to address. Lessons learned during this pandemic apply with equal force to compliance issues.
If the COVID-19 crisis has taught dealers anything, it is that they have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders, employees, and customers, to remain well capitalized in order to survive the next crisis. Stay the course, tweak where necessary, but don’t be so quick to fix what isn’t broken, despite what the disruptors might urge.