Personal Lines articles – Page 195
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Homeserve ready for £500m D&G buy-out
Homeserve is preparing to ramp up its position in the home emergency cover market after opening talks with Domestic and General (D&G) over a potential buy-out.The emergency services provider admitted it had approached its smaller rival, with a view to entering discussions over an offer.According to analysts this could be ...
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Personal lines drive for Post Office
The Post Office has drawn up ambitious plans to grow its share of the competitive home and motor insurance market.In the next five years the company hopes to grow its share of the home insurance market by around 2% while also tripling its share of the car insurance market to ...
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Mondial places new focus on Europe
Appoints Aimee Charlwood as business development manager to expand travel insurance on a pan-European scale
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FSA finds improvement in insurance advertising
Improvements follow the regulators challenge to firms to improve home and motor insurance press advertising standards...
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Carbon neutral motor insurance launched
ibuyeco announces a new motor insurance offering which will help motorists offset their carbon footprint
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Equity contracts Open GI for branch network
Equity chooses Open GI as platform of choice for both personal and commercial lines
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Bupa appoints chief underwriter
Bupa names Chris Pollard as chief underwriter for individual protection
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MMA goes full-cycle with household products
Insurer takes the lead in offering full cycle EDI household schemes via insurecom
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Swinton: penalty points won't drive up premiums
Drivers need no longer fear impact of penalty points on premium rates following Swinton announcement
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Two arrested in staged motor accident crackdown
Police arrest a further two suspects in dawn raids in the ongoing crackdown on cash for crash scam
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Price war warning over HSBC deal with NU
Norwich Union's (NU) proposed joint venture with HSBC could spark a price war in the personal lines market, analysts have warned. The joint venture will see the formation of a new insurance company, HSBC Insurance Co, which will underwrite and distribute motor, household and other general insurance products to HSBC's ...
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Insurers agree fees for medical reports
An agreement to cap medical reporting fees has been reached between 10 leading insurers and medico-legal reporting organisations. The deal could slash the fees paid by insurers by up to 20%, according to the Association of Medical Reporting Organisations. The agreement brings to an end a lengthy period of ...
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Looking for a knock-out
The long running saga of whether travel agents should be regulated for selling travel insurance is about to be decided. Anita Anandarajah explains the issues
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Four arrested in 'cash for crash' insurance scam
The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has helped West Yorkshire Police with intelligence-gathering, leading to the arrest of four people today suspected of staging motor accidents...
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MCE launches motor insurance website
Broker, MCE, has launched a new fully interactive e-commerce site for private car and motorcycle insurance...
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Travel insurance is “too cheap” to be any use
Some policies charge too little to be able to pay out, warns Defaqto...
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Attorney general announces national anti-fraud strategy
Lord Goldsmith said the government was planning to establish a National Fraud Research Centre...
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Agreement reached on medical agency fees
Medical reporting organisations and insurers have reached an agreement that should put an end to disagreements about the recoverability of medial agency fees...
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NU targets top 10 with HSBC venture
HSBC Bank and Aviva have announced plans for the creation of a joint venture, under the "HSBC Insurance" brand, that aims to be a top-10 player in the UK general insurance industry. Under the terms of the planned joint venture, HSBC Bank and Norwich Union Insurance, the UK general ...
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Insurers must invest in fraud detection technology
Aron Thompson, head of insurance at uSwitch.com, has urged insurers to invest heavily in new technology to investigate fraud effectively...
