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Speed is essential on the pitch, but footballers are unfortunately transferring these skills to the streets according to research from moneysupermarket.com.

LV.com has won the Chat Deployment of the Year award in the LIVEperson Innovation Awards 2007.

James Harrison, CEO of the online insurer comparison service, Insurancewide.com comments on electronic motor insurance certificates.

Gocompare.com comments on the Department for Transport’s (DfT) decision to give the go-ahead for electronic motor insurance certificates.

Action will be taken to allow consumers to receive their motor insurance certificates by email, it was announced by Jim Fitzpatrick MP, Road Safety Minister, at the ABI’s Motor Conference.

Brits believe they have lost out to the tune of £750 million in the last 12 months because they have not been able to claim on a car, home or travel insurance policy even though they thought they were covered, according to research from Tesco Compare.com.

In response to the news that the government is planning to double the fixed penalty for people caught exceeding the speed limit excessively, Debra Williams, Managing Director of the UK's leading insurance price comparison service Confused.com, said: We support the Government's plan to improve road safety by introducing a harsher fixed penalty for drivers who excessively speed.

Leading insurance comparison site Gocompare.com has warned drivers that the plan to double the fixed penalty for speeding could also lead to a doubling of your insurance premium if you were to receive a ban under the proposed new structure.

Over a third of UK households now own more than one car and new research has revealed that they are less likely to have a car accident than single car households.

As the evenings draw in and the change in weather affects driving conditions, it may be no surprise that November is the highest claim month for car accidents.

London has been revealed as the UK’s car crime capital with four of its districts being named in the top 10 list of car crime hotspots for the past 18 months. In fact, the top three places are all taken by postcodes in the city.

James Harrison, CEO of the original insurance comparison website, Insurancewide.com, said: “The Defaqto report on motor insurance aggregators makes several valid points about misleading marketing messages and limited access to the UK insurance market.

Defaqto, in its latest report into the motor insurance market: ‘Motor insurance in the UK, 2007 – the rise of the aggregator’: says people buying insurance on the Internet need to be careful when using web aggregator sites.

TescoCompare.com has been rated best car insurance comparison site by Defaqto, an independent product research company.

A rule change, designed to tighten the grip on uninsured driving and coming into effect in January 2008, could affect thousands of innocent drivers who are late renewing their car insurance.