UK Insurance News

Lloyds of London have confirmed that concert promoters organising the Michael Jackson comeback tour had insured on the Lloyds market but ‘any losses are not likely to be significant.’
Earlier reports had suggested that Lloyds could face losses of up to $400million, but a spokesman said that the tour organisers AEG Live are likely to have [...]

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The Belgium based insurance company Fortis have emerged as favourites to tie up a partnership deal with Tesco, to manage the supermarkets Home and Motor insurance businesses. A report in the Telegraph suggests that talks between the two companies are at an  ‘advanced’ stage.
Tesco has enjoyed a long standing partnership with the Royal Bank of [...]

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Following the case of a pensioner being attacked and murdered in his own home for refusing to hand his car keys over to a scumbag 16 year old burglar, a police officer has suggested that the public should avoid hiding keys in their own homes, to avoid further violent clashes with similar low-life thieves who [...]

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Regardless of pre-conceptions, recent research from insurance company MoreThan has found that the safest city to leave a bicycle unsecured is Liverpool.  MoreThan discovered that it took four hours before a brand new unguarded bicycle was taken in the north west city of Liverpool, against a national average of 2 hours and 22 minutes.
In fact [...]

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The British Insurance Brokers Federation (BIBA) has warned hard up householders not to neglect home and contents insurance policies, following a survey that suggests an alarming one in five consumers have either cancelled or failed to renew cover in recent months.
Graeme Trudgill of BIBA suggests that home insurance covers almost all of a person’s worldly [...]

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