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. [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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’ [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Despite All the Campaigns, Drink Driving is on The Increase
The UK’s roads are awash with drink-drivers with a staggering 41,000 motorists arrested in 2017, and those figures look set to rise with 2018 on course to be a boozier [...]
Brexit Update: Guernsey Signs Memo with Bank of England
The Guernsey Financial Services Commission has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bank of England. The new agreement is a reaffirmation of a long-held [...]