Firms claiming to have taken over from Domestic & General have become a common problem My parents, who are in their 80s, attempted to contact their domestic appliances insurer, National Home Cover, when their dishwasher packed up....
In agreeing this private equity deal and keeping most of its details from their own members, LV= directors have shown a striking combination of high-handedness and cack-handedness It was founded shortly after Victoria ascended the...
John Lewis has pulled a controversial home insurance advert over concerns it could mislead people into thinking the policy advertised would cover a child intentionally smashing up a house. The ad, which featured a boy dressed in his...
Home insurance ad featuring a boy in a dress taken off air after financial regulator warning It was attacked as everything from a crass cultural lecture to a treatise on sexism. John Lewis’s latest home insurance ad, in which a young boy...
Housing secretary may also push developers to pay for repairs in signs of renewed push to fix problem Analysis: bolder moves required as Gove tackles crisis Michael Gove is exploring how to cut soaring insurance premiums for homeowners...
Brands’ owner scrapped such policies in March 2020, but U-turn is likely to be followed by other big insurers Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage The insurers Direct Line and Churchill have resumed offering...
Big tech now encourages us to monitor everything from our heart rate to our glucose levels via smartphones and watches. How much privacy have we lost to the promise of self improvement - and is it time to stop? First we counted our...
Our home was damaged after torrential rain in July but the company says we are not covered One Sunday at the end of July our home, along with most of our neighbours’, was flooded after torrential rain. There was a foot of water in our...
Joanna Davies was dragged along the road for 20 metres but has been offered less than half the £11,000 she has claimed A Hampshire cyclist who was driven over by a partially sighted motorist has described her struggle to get the driver’s...
A hotel had to close, but the hotelier was told his policy wouldn’t help as Covid ‘didn’t count as a notifiable disease’ Good news from a hotelier who contacted me when his business interruption cover failed to compensate him for...
The cost was more than our flights and the actual car hire I paid £110 for 10 days’ car hire with Budget via an airline website. The price included basic insurance, so I paid £20 for a comprehensive policy with a third-party provider and...
Building society had stopped offering cover to new members but those already signed up retained the perk Nationwide is axing free European travel insurance for the last of its FlexAccount customers who were entitled to the cover via...
Insurance companies withdrew pre-funded policies more than a decade ago – but they could return under new plans The cap on the cost of social care could create a new market in insurance to cover nursing home fees – 11 years after the...
Insurer records £1.4bn in first-half profits after settling £9.4bn in claims Lloyd’s, the world’s biggest insurance market, has moved back into profit as a stronger underwriting performance helped it bounce back from last year’s Covid-19...
My wisdom tooth needs to come out but it says the policy only covers ‘active symptoms’ I have a medical insurance policy with Bupa that doesn’t cover day-to-day dentistry, except for “surgical operations” . At a recent dental check up, I...
Now is the time to take action, with extreme weather incidents on the rise It was like a cloudburst. The downpour came so quickly and with such ferocity that some residents of Walthamstow in north-east London didn’t have time to salvage...
From pensions to savings, and broadband to energy bills, check if you have made the right choices It is the start of a new academic year and while that might not be as associated with resolutions as the day the calendar year ticks over,...
FCA says many firms unlikely to be prepared for changes coming into force in October Insurers could face disciplinary action after the City watchdog said UK firms were not ready for stricter rules on price hikes on car and home...
To pay out on my father’s policy the company wanted information no one could hope to provide Way back in 1955, my parents both took out life insurance policies with the Prudential. In 1993 they were told by the company that the policies...
Blazes in outbuildings rose by 16% last year as workers raced to add offices, bars and gyms to their homes As the first Covid lockdown hit, workers in Britain opted to turn their sheds into offices – “shoffices” – and bars, but the trend...
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The UK government has bound by law its target of reaching net zero emissions by 2050, Prime Minister Theresa May announced on 12 June. Britain is the first The post Theresa May writes into law UK 2050 net zero emissions target appeared...
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The largest electric hybrid aircraft ever to be flown had its first successful test flight yesterday evening at Camarillo Airport, California. The public test of the six-seater Ampaire The post Breakthrough in electric aviation as...
The number of billion-dollar tech companies has tripled across Europe as it continues to rival the likes of the US and China, according to new research. The Titans The post European tech sector grows faster than US as 21 new...
The number of patents filed for blockchain technologies reached a peak of 2,666 globally between 2016 and 2017. Over half (59.6%) of all such patents – which represent the The post Patents for blockchain-related technology is...
Introducing smart charging infrastructure for electric vehicles could reduce the need to build extra storage into the National Grid – saving the UK power network £1.16bn a year, The post Switching to smart charging electric...
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A federal judge concluded that Aetna dropped Obamacare coverage in certain markets to help its merger, not for business purposes like the company stated.
The insurance company is allegedly offering different coverage plans to drivers who are low-income, single, without a college degree, and previously uninsured.
The Federal Housing Administration is dramatically cutting the premiums it charges for mortgage insurance. As a result the typical first-time home buyer should save about $900 a year.
What are the chances your home will get damaged by a tornado, hurricane, earthquake or fire? RealtyTrac crunched the data in more than 3,000 counties nationwide to find out.