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Motor insurers should stop apologising for premiums
Editor’s View: Rather than toadying to MPs by promising to tackle premiums, Emma Ann Hughes argues providers should do a better job of explaining the value of car insurance.
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ABI insists fire safety scheme is temporary
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Price of tower block insurance finally slashed
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Direct Line rejects second bid from Ageas
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Could premium finance face Gap-like FCA action?
After the Financial Conduct Authority’s Matt Brewis labelled premium finance a “poor product”, Scott McGee examines if the industry has done enough to defend this method of paying for insurance or whether the regulator will soon feel forced to clamp down…
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Top trends driving motor insurance
Post Podcast: 2024 will be a corrective year for motor insurers as they move back towards profitability, industry experts have predicted.
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60 Seconds With... Ecclesiastical’s Geoff Turner
Geoff Turner, broker distribution director at Ecclesiastical, hates cleaning the hob, shares why the bigger picture is what really matters and insists he hasn’t told a lie since childhood.
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Diary of an Insurer: Staysure’s Finn Walsh
Finn Walsh, CEO of Staysure, catches up with the provider's founders, aims to put the “sure” in travel insurance, goes to the gym and manages to read his son a quick story before bedtime.
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Pet insurers with satisfied customers revealed
Data analysis: Fairer Finance’s latest consumer survey reveals the pet insurers with the most extremely satisfied customers and examines the lessons providers need to learn from the Financial Ombudsman Service increasingly ruling in favour of complaining…
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Esure addresses issue with renewals and quotes
Esure insists an issue with the £141m digital transformation that resulted in the provider temporarily being unable to offer renewals to some customers has now been fixed.
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Admiral CEO shares electric vehicle ambitions
As Admiral reported pre-tax profits of £597m from its UK insurance operations in 2023, CEO Milena Mondini De Focatiis revealed to Insurance Post the insurer’s ambitions to be a “leader in electric vehicles.”
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Aviva has reported its UK and Ireland general insurance business grew gross written premiums by 16% while the provider’s operating profit surged 63% in 2023, and GI CEO Jason Storah said he is “confident” the business “will build on success” in 2024.
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IPT haul helps Hunt fund 2p National Insurance cut
In today’s Budget documents, the Office for Budget Responsibility increased its estimated tax haul from insurance premium tax by more than £370m between 2023-24 and 2028-29.
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Lack of motor risk data leading to ‘inconsistent’ pricing
Thatcham Research and LexisNexis Risk Solutions have partnered to address the issues caused by the advancing complexity of vehicle technology and its associated data, Insurance Post can reveal.
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Why the ABI is getting Snippy on insurance premium tax
Trade Voice: Chris Blackwood, head of communications at the Association of British Insurers, explains the trade body’s efforts to ‘unmask’ insurance premium tax.
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FCA pauses all Gap insurance sales
The Financial Conduct Authority has ordered all providers of guaranteed asset protection insurance to pause selling the product by the end of this month.
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Allianz returns fire on ‘embarrassing’ Revolut allegations
Allianz has hit back at Revolut in its latest filings in a lawsuit over a prematurely axed travel insurance deal.
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Scale of motor insurance market shrinking laid bare
Data analysis: Mike Powell, insight manager for banking and general insurance at Defaqto, examines why there are now 14% fewer insurance brands selling comprehensive car insurance than there were 10 years ago plus what features have been stripped out of…
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Bspoke acquires Police Mutual personal lines business
Bspoke Group has completed the acquisition of Police Mutual personal lines business less than four years after the mutual was absorbed by Royal London.
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Four ways to boost motor insurer’s profits
Insurance Post gathered a group of personal lines experts to discuss what it will take to make motor insurance more profitable for providers and appreciated by policyholders.
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Why Ageas buying Direct Line makes sense now
Having been talked about as a takeover target itself in recent years, content director Jonathan Swift observes Ageas’ move for Direct Line marks a change in fortunes for the Belgian insurance group and makes perfect sense in terms of fit and timing.
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Direct Line confirms it rejected ‘opportunistic’ Ageas bid
Direct Line has said it received an approach to buy the group from Ageas on 19 January, which it felt “significantly undervalued” the group and its prospects.
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Ageas mulls £3.1bn bid for Direct Line
Ageas has confirmed that it is in the “preliminary stages” of considering a £3.1bn bid for Direct Line.
