UK Insurance News

Recent research carried out by YourMoney claims that homeowners in the UK are overpaying on their home and contents insurance by £500million collectively every year.
YourMoney claim that too many UK homeowners renew their buildings and contents insurance without reviewing their needs and not shopping around, resulting in customers paying an average of £180 per year [...]

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PJ Hayman’s Free Spirit policy is one of the UK’s largest specialist travel insurance providers, offering cover for clients with pre-existing medical conditions and disabilities and enabling over 40,000 people to obtain cover for travel abroad over the last two years.
Free Spirit was the first scheme of it’s type specifically dedicated to offering cover to [...]

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UK high street retailer Debenhams have announced the appointment of the Heath Lambert Group as sole provider of cover for Debenhams Retail’s home insurance.
Debenhams will offer the home insurance product via it’s 154 stores across the UK and Ireland  and also on the internet through the company’s Debenhams Direct online shopping portal.
The deal with Debenhams [...]

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UK Specialist Travel Insurance and Schemes provider, P J Hayman is urging the government to lower the 17.5% Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) that is payable on all travel insurance premiums.
This rate was initially introduced in an attempt to deter travel agents from giving holiday discounts on the condition that travel insurance was purchased as part [...]

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UK insurer MORE TH>N say that despite the media coverage relating to the ‘crash for cash’ scam, 41% of motorists have never heard of this form of gang crime.
While co-ordinated efforts by the police and insurance companies have seen a drop of 11% in incidents of the scam over the last two years, MORE TH>N [...]

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