Insurance & Reinsurance

Road Safety: When Will Parking on The Pavement Become Illegal?

It’s a nightmare for wheelchair users, the less able, mums with buggies and small children – the scourge of pavement parking leads to road rage incidents, vandalised cars, people tripping up, or in extreme cases, […]

News

Smart Motorways to Get More Cameras, More Safe Spaces. Not Good Enough

A government report is due to be published soon, which is expected to condemn so-called Smart Motorways, and the death toll caused by their unsafe design. Doing away with the hard shoulder to speed traffic […]

Legal

Legal: Clyde & Co Warn on Rising Diesel Fumes & Opiod Claims

A look-ahead at potential legacy claims trends in 2020 has highlighted weed killer, diesel fumes and opioid addiction as potentially growing in significance for UK insurers. According to David Tait, partner with global law firm […]

News

Drink Driving is On The Up, Says Vantage Leasing Study

Fatal and serious drink-drive casualties have reached their highest level since 2010, according to new analysis of Department for Transport (DfT) figures by Vantage Leasing. The spike in drink-drive casualties coincides with a 17% drop in […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

BIBA Calls for Ring-Fencing on IPT to Fund Flood Defences

Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) is a penalty for doing the responsible thing, let’s be blunt about it. Those who dodge car insurance often end up with a fine that is one quarter of the cost […]

Insurance Brokers

Broker Update: Questgates Warns on Highways England Fixed Costs Plan

Leading specialist loss adjuster QuestGates has issued a word of warning to the insurance industry that the new Highways England process for dealing with ‘Green Claims’ shows a hardening of approach by the government company […]

InsureTech

Insurtech: Honcho Gets a £750K Investment Boost from Maven Partners

Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity firms, has invested a further £750,000, in disruptive car insurance platform, Honcho Markets Ltd (“honcho”). The funding has been provided by Maven VCTs […]

Opinion

Opinion: IAM Roadsmart Says Total Ban on Pavement Parking is Wrong Solution

A blanket ban on pavement parking could lead to a need for thousands of new car parking spaces that towns and cities are simply not equipped to provide, warns IAM RoadSmart. The warning has come […]