General Insurance

What is reasonable care?

I recently read a consumer complaint in one of the national newspapers that highlighted...

FCA fines and bans individual

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined Ralph Whittington £42,111 and banned him from...

ABI seeks to reassure over personal data

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has published a new consumer guide on ‘How...

Select & Protect appoints branch manager

Select & Protect has announced the appointment of Themba Wirz as its new branch...

14% of total wealth in the UK is kept at home

A new study by Legal & General and economics consultancy firm CEBR, has reported that in...

Millions of homeowners lack home security nous

32% of Britons admit to have gone out of the house leaving the windows...

Protect Line switches to TenetLime

TenetLime has added Protect Line to its membership. The Poole-based specialist insurance brokerage offers...

Landlords reminded to check cover arrangements

The recent new of a national rise in private housing rental prices has led to...

Significant recent fall in home insurance premiums

New research from insurance market research firm Consumer Intelligence has found that between June...

Hertfordshire GI broker acquired

General insurance broker Libra Insurance Services has been acquired by consultancy firm Jelf. Jelf, which...

Review into financial advice access unveiled

A new review looking at how financial advice could work better for consumers has...

The IPT shockwave

Chancellor George Osborne caught the insurance industry by surprise with a Budget announcement that...

Fleet Mortgages outlines roadshow appearances

Fleet Mortgages has set out its appearances at a timetable of summer and autumn...

Senior GI hire for SunLife

SunLife has announced a new senior appointment. Simon Stanney has joined the business as general...

COMMENT

What commonhold will mean for mortgage lenders and brokers

Commonhold is often presented as the straightforward alternative to leasehold. It removes the freeholder, gives flat owners greater control and avoids some familiar problems...

Why you need to know what sits behind the average review score

There’s a funny thing about review scores. The better they are, the less likely we are to question them. If a company is sitting at...

The new Chancellor wants to remove barriers to growth; he should start with housing

There was probably a degree of unintended irony in the Treasury choosing to call the Chancellor, John Healey’s, first major market ‘intervention’ his ‘Growth...

Brokers are losing the attention battle 1,000 to 3

Take a client you placed on a 5-year fix last year. Over the life of that deal, their bank is now planning to contact...

Triple lock or no triple lock? That is not the question

The debate over the State Pension triple lock has returned. But perhaps the more important question is what the debate tells us about the...

Latest news

LSL mortgage revenue rises 8% as remortgage demand grows

LSL Property Services has reported an 8% increase in mortgage revenue during the first...

Foundation opens financial services careers to young people with talent programme

Foundation has completed its first Future Talent Programme, giving 18 young people workplace experience...

Rely uses AVM to deliver immediate offer on landlord remortgage

Rely has issued an instant mortgage offer for a landlord remortgaging a single buy-to-let...

Law firms urged to consider later life lending in IHT planning

Law firms should consider later life lending as part of broader inheritance tax planning...

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