Household Insurance

Are We Looking at The Collapse of First Time Buyer Market?

We only ask the question after scanning this survey by Aviva, which has some sobering figures in there. What is obvious, and to some extent was already a trend before Covid, is that younger people […]

Motor Insurance

Allianz Launches EV Commercial Charger Inspection Service

Many fleets are moving onto electric delivery vehicles, so the need is there to fit charging points. These need regular inspections to make sure they are working safely and Allianz now has a service to […]

News

Gallagher Fine Tunes Its Turkey Operations

Gallagher today announced that it has fully integrated its Turkish subsidiary Brokers’ House, and the business will be branded Gallagher from next Monday, 19 September. The development marks Gallagher’s first direct presence in Turkey following […]

Insurance Brokers

Fancy Laundering Some Money? Why Not Buy a House?

Credas Technologies, the leading identity verification checks provider, has found that a significant proportion of UK homebuyers aren’t being asked to provide ID when purchasing a property, let alone having their ID properly verified. The survey […]

Insurance Brokers

Gallagher Re Teams Up With Accord Mortgages

Gallagher Re, the global reinsurance broker, today welcomed Accord Mortgages – the intermediary-only lending subsidiary of Yorkshire Building Society – to Deposit Unlock, the innovative reinsurance-backed mortgage indemnity scheme it helped design and develop for the house […]

News

FCA Issues £1m In Fines After Pension Losses

The FCA has prohibited five directors of financial advice firms from working in financial services and collectively fined them over £1 million, after they caused significant losses to pension customers. The largest individual fine was […]

News

Unsafe Loft Conversion Work Led To House Collapse

Latest case report from the HSE; A Manchester construction company was fined after much of a three-bedroom domestic property in Stretford collapsed during a loft conversion and ground floor extension work. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard […]