Household Insurance

buzzvault Highlights Low Take-Up on Home Contents Cover

Responding to news from the ABI that 1 in 4 UK homes has no contents insurance, despite the cost of insurance at a record low, Charlotte Halkett, MD of insurance product at buzzvault said: “The […]

News

Sunday Special: Let Us Forgive Those Who Steal Our Plug Socket…Maybe

Remember that TV docu-soap called Road Wars? Well it seems that as more Brits spend their free time loafing about playing XBOX, stalking ex-partners on Facebook or eating soggy cornflakes as they binge-watch Netflix on […]

Flood Insurance

Emergency Home Repairs Costing £527 Per Household, Says NFU Mutual

New research released today has revealed the startling costs that Britons are paying to fix damage in their homes. Households across the country are spending a massive £527.30 per household emergency, a total of £3.7bn […]

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Sleepy Ol’ House Contents Insurers – Prepare to Get Your Butts Kicked; buzzvault is Go!

buzzvault, the world’s first truly personalised home insurance policy based on digitised home contents data has opened for business, backed by one of the world’s largest investment groups and in partnership with Munich Re Digital […]

Household Insurance

Summer Heatwave Causes Spike in Subsidence Claims

More than 10,000 households made claims worth a total of £64 million to deal with the impact of subsidence in just three months of this year, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) is revealing today. […]

Household Insurance

buzzvault Teams Up With Davies Group on Claims Handling

From launch in December 2018, buzzvault, the first hyper tailored home insurance policy based on a digital inventory of a policyholder’s home, will promise rapid claims settlement and the reassurance of complete transparency for more […]

News

Help To Buy Loans Reaching Maturity, Just as Interest Rates Set to Rise

A specialist team of conveyancing solicitors and property lawyers have extended a helping hand to homeowners facing looming interest rates by offering an expedited route to redeeming their Help to Buy loan, as thousands of […]

ABI reaction to new Ogden rate
Opinion

Opinion: Will Whiplash Reforms Be an Own Goal for Insurance Industry?

The matter of whiplash claims has caused all kinds of problems for the insurance industry, and the legal sector, in the past. Scandals involving entire families organising claims, staged accidents and more have all made […]