Insurance
Car insurance - Hope for young drivers?
The most welcome news in the latest benchmark AA British Insurance Premium Index is an unexpected fall of 5.6 per cent in the average Shoparound cost of an annual comprehensive car insurance policy for young drivers.
Over seven million Brits have suffered travel disruption
Over seven million Britons (15% of adults) have had a holiday disrupted by problems including ash clouds, industrial action and political unrest overseas in the past 18 months, according to new research from Sainsbury's Travel Insurance.
Plan ahead for a trouble free gap year
With many ‘gappers' starting to plan their trips this summer, Bob Atkinson, travel expert at moneysupermarket.com offers ten top tips to help those travelling to spend their money wisely and keep safe abroad.
RIAS enhances its travel insurance policy
With the school holidays just around the corner, over 50s insurance provider RIAS has enhanced its travel insurance policy to give customers a wide range of additional benefits for stress free holidays.
Driven to distraction costing Brits £3.3 million a year
Distracted drivers are rife on our roads, and are risking hefty hikes to their car insurance premiums if they are caught being careless behind the wheel, says moneysupermarket.com.
Social ‘Petworking’ - are you barking?!
Petplan, the UK’s largest pet insurance provider, has revealed that over half of UK pet owners* are sharing photos of their pets online and, what’s more, one in ten of all UK pets have their own Facebook, Twitter and/or YouTube page with many becoming more popular than their human counterparts.
Ensurance against rising insurance premiums
Volkswagen Insurance Service (VIS), the insurance arm of Volkswagen Financial Services, has launched a new product, ‘Ensurance’, which works with any car insurance policy and then provides full accident management support and service from the Volkswagen Group repairer network.
RIAS motor insurance launches on Gocompare.com
Over 50s insurance provider RIAS has launched its motor insurance product on Gocompare.com - the first time the specialist provider has offered insurance to consumers via an aggregator website.
92% of business travellers don't understand car hire insurance
Many business travellers are confused by car hire insurance which is putting their companies at risk of high insurance costs or high penalty fees being added to expenses claims, says a leading online insurance company, iCarhireinsurance.com,following the results of a survey it conducted with YouGov.
Chevrolet and Ageas to create new insurance partnership
Ageas has entered into exclusive discussions with Chevrolet to work together to provide fully branded motor insurance products in the UK to its customers.
UK motorists crashing for cash
Recession-hit drivers in the UK are resorting to dangerous measures to make extra cash, according to moneysupermarket.com.
Free help for adults with no will power
Hastings Direct will give a free will to anyone who takes out either a contents, or buildings, or combined insurance policy at hastingsdirect.com.
The Co-operative calls for crack down on dubious claims
The Co-operative Group has announced a number of customer-focused initiatives to deal with the increasing and unwelcome obtrusiveness of the claims management sector, which is contributing heavily to spiralling claims and insurance premiums.
New insurance policy covers lost maintenance for divorcees
A growing number of divorcees who are totally reliant on maintenance payments from former partners are dealing with the constant worry of payments stopping because of redundancy, illness - or the person simply deciding not to pay.
Brits driven off the road by the rising cost of motoring
Over 1 million motorists have given up driving over the past 12 months because of the rising cost of motoring, according to research from Sainsbury's Car Insurance.