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Switch car cover and save up to £180
You can save 35pc by comparing as few as five insurance providers, according to the ABI.
30 Dec 2009
Change your home insurance and save £122
Moneysupermarket.com reckons you can cut the cost of their home insurance by £122, without cutting back on cover.
30 Dec 2009
Does your travel insurance stack up?
Holidaymakers have had their Christmas trips jeopardised by potential strikes, collapsed airlines and cancelled Eurostar trains.
21 Dec 2009
Insurance cost to rise under new rules
Insurance premiums could rise to pay for a change in the law that would see insurers pay out millions more to customers.
15 Dec 2009
Comparison sites 'mislead'
Deals that don't pay fees to website are excluded from home page.
05 Dec 2009
Floods: 500,000 homes could become unsellable
Flood risks mean 485,000 homes in England are potentially uninsurable and unmortgageable, according to official figures.
30 Nov 2009
Comparison sites 'failing to win over consumers'
Consumers lack trust in comparison websites with one in four people saying they have been able to find better value financial products elsewhere, a survey has found.
18 Nov 2009
Families see household insurance bills jump £150 amid recession
Britain’s middle classes have seen their family insurance bills jump by more than £150 amid the recession, exclusive research for The Daily Telegraph has disclosed.
14 Nov 2009
Women are better drivers, says study by Moneysupermarket.com
Men pay 71 per cent more for their car insurance than women because they take greater risks on the road, a study has shown.
09 Nov 2009
Insurance premiums to rise due to climate change
Climate change is set to make insurance more expensive and harder to obtain.
04 Nov 2009
PPI: Swinton fined £770,000 and to refund 350,000
Swinton, the insurance broker, has been handed a £770,000 fine by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for mis-selling controversial payment protection insurance (PPI) policies.
28 Oct 2009
Equitable: the million-dollar question
Equitable Life policyholders are no closer to getting compensation despite the Government's decision not to challenge the Parliamentary Ombudsman's rulings.
23 Oct 2009
Insurer Zurich loses details of 50,000 customers
Tape containing the data was lost in August last year, but it has taken until now for the insurance giant to alert its customers.
22 Oct 2009
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Insurer Zurich loses 51,000 customers' details
The group said the backup tape was lost during a routine transfer to a data storage centre in South Africa in August last year.
22 Oct 2009
Motor premiums soar by record amount
Car insurance premiums are up by a record 14pc in a year.
22 Oct 2009
Equitable Life: more policyholders in line for compensation
Equitable Life campaigners have secured a victory after the Government said it would not challenge the findings of a landmark High Court ruling made last week.
21 Oct 2009
Barclays wins PPI review
Court orders competition watchdog to reconsider ban on selling insurance alongside credit agreements.
16 Oct 2009
One million mortgage insurance customers to receive refunds
One million bank and building society customers who took out insurance to cover their mortgage payments will receive refunds after the City Watchdog said the contracts were unfair.
08 Oct 2009
Actuary faces inquiry over Equitable Life
The Accountancy and Actuarial Discipline Board (AADB) said yesterday that it intends to investigate an individual actuary in relation to audits of Equitable Life in the three years before the life company collapsed.
07 Oct 2009
How important is critical illness cover?
With one in every five critical illness claims for breast cancer now could be the time to make sure you have the right protection.
01 Oct 2009
Court quashes £8,000 card debt
A woman has won a "landmark" legal victory after a judge quashed her £8,000 credit card debt after she was wrongly sold payment protection insurance.
01 Oct 2009
Thousands of rejected PPI complaints to be reopened
Thousands of rejected customer complaints against banks and other lenders are to be reopened under plans by the City Watchdog to clampdown on insurance products.
30 Sep 2009
FSA orders 185,000 PPI cases to be reinvestigated
The Financial Services Authority has ordered that 185,000 sales of payment protection insurance (PPI) must be reinvestigated for potential mis-selling.
29 Sep 2009
Warning to householders who resort to DIY in credit crunch
The credit crunch is forcing home owners to take on their own major building projects – with some disastrous consequences, a survey shows.
28 Sep 2009
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