Motor Insurance

Overview: How’s The UK Motorcycle Insurance Sector Doing?

We like to look in detail at particular sectors within insurance, and the motorcycle market is an interesting one. Partly because the pandemic has curtailed usage over the last 12 months, and also because AI […]

motorcycle insurance

CMA Review Finds Ardonagh-Bennetts Merger May Increase Premiums

The CMA has found that Ardonagh’s completed purchase of Bennetts could lead to higher prices, less choice and worse services for motorcyclists in the UK. Ardonagh Group Limited (Ardonagh), which operates the Carole Nash and […]

Business

New Ardonagh Funding Sees Two New Deals, More to Come?

Updated: 26.06.2020; Further to its 22 June 2020 announcement, The Ardonagh Group (ā€œthe Groupā€) announces that on 25 June 2020 it priced the offering of $500 million in aggregate principal amount of Ardonagh Midco 2 […]

Opinion

Hastings Profit Drop Highlights Car & Motorbike Insurance Transformation

Disclaimer: Your IE editor was once a happy Hastings customer, with a Triumph motorcycle covered at a fair price, via a call centre chat once a year. That was over a decade ago however, and […]

News

Ardonagh Buy Bennetts, As Consolidation in Motorcycle Market Begins

The UK motorcycle insurance market is ripe for consolidation, with a varied group of brokers and MGAs all competing for a diminishing band of 55-70 year old enthusiast bikers, plus reluctant commuters avoiding unreliable public […]

Insurance Brokers

Renewals: Bennetts Prize Draw Offers Bikers Free Cover or £250 Voucher

Bennetts are offering four riders the chance to get a year’s free motorcycle insurance by winning back the cost of their policy or if they prefer, they can choose to receive Ā£250 in Sportsbike Shop […]

insurance marketing

Marketing Strategy: Insurers Revved Up For Motorcycle Season

Motorcycle sport is fast paced and attracts a core audience of middle-aged men, often self-employed or with a low mortgage payment each month, who enjoy watching and taking part in bike sport, plus riding bikes […]