Travel Insurance

Travel: 34% of Brits Planning Overseas Holiday

With England’s ‘Freedom Day’ just around the corner, and lockdown restrictions set to ease across the UK in the coming weeks and months, new research from Forbes Advisor UK, the personal finance insight and comparison […]

News

Regional Variances in Car Quotes, Plus Telematics Goes Mainstream

Telematics offerings have long been positioned competitively for younger drivers, with 59% of the five cheapest quotes for drivers under the age of 25 coming from telematics firms. But the latest research from insurance data […]

UK Insurance Trends

Forbes Warns on Crypto’s Inherent Riskiness

Commenting on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) research on cryptoasset ownership, published recently, Kevin Pratt, money expert at Forbes Advisor UK, the personal finance insights and comparison website, said: “The FCA has repeatedly warned about […]

Pet Insurance

100K Customer Milestone for Markerstudy Pet Brands

Markerstudy’s Pet insurance brands, including award-winning Purely Pets and Petwise, have celebrated reaching the milestone of 100,000 customers. There was more good news for 5* Defaqto rated Purely Pets recently, having been shortlisted in the […]

Opinion

Halfway to Insurtech Heaven, or a Dot.Com Hell?

Straight talking from the Editor’s keyboard, as Alastair look at the recent record-breaking insurtech funding announcements and wonders if we are entering crypto bubble territory. LESSONS FROM HISTORY Let’s start back in 1999. No, not […]

Life/Health/Critical illness

Smokers & Their Partners Can Face Extra Insurance Costs

If you’re struggling to convince your partner to quit smoking, you’re not alone. Despite health concerns related to smoking and second-hand smoke inhalation, new data from Quotezone.co.uk shows that 16% of couples in the UK […]

News

That Side-Hustle Thing, Probably Not Insured..

Real-time driving data is revealing the potentially widespread problem of commercial deliveries in cars insured for private and domestic use only. ThingCo, the telematics insurtech has estimated that as much as 5% of new private/domestic […]