All we seem to hear about these days is the ‘cost of living crisis’ where everything is getting more expensive and stretching our budgets to the max. Well, here’s one good piece of news: the average price of insuring your home is down by 7% over the last year, with the price of covering your…
In recent weeks we have received enquiries regarding a sharp increase in the premiums for building insurance policies for flats. At present it is mainly flat renewals that are affected but this could spread to any other buildings insurance and it is worth taking time to understand what is happening and why. Most people would…
The British Insurance Brokers’ Association and ITN Productions Industry News launch “Leading the Way”, a news and current affairs-style programme exploring the essential role of insurance brokers in protecting both businesses and consumers against the evolving threats of the modern world. The UK has arguably one of the best insurance industries in the world despite…
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CCTV played a major role in convicting a woman from Chester who was charged and sentenced after faking a burglary and setting fire to her car as part of an elaborate insurance scam. Hayley Barlow pleaded guilty to fraud, perverting the course of justice and possession of a class A drug at Chester Crown Court…
Every year families suffer disasters over the festive period which result in making a claim against their home insurance policy. Ageas, one of the country’s leading insurers, has revealed some of the Christmas claims that spoilt last year’s festive fun for 11,000 of their customers: The loft is rarely visited by many of us and mainly…
On-line comparison websites don’t tell the full story: #DeriskingTheFuture
Having one car catch fire is bad luck; losing every car in a multi storey car park to fire is extremely unusual. Yet on New Year’s Eve that was exactly what happened in a multi storey car park at the Liverpool ECHO Arena. It is believed that one car caught fire and the flames quickly…
Three hundred and fifty years ago this week most of London was razed to the ground in the Great Fire of London. Samuel Pepys famously buried his wine and Parmesan cheese as his house caught fire. What would you save? It turns out that most people nowadays are more likely to want to save credit…
