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National legal and insurance services provider Carpenters has launched MyClaim app for its insurance clients, enabling them to receive up-to-the-minute communication and submit instructions, information and documents quickly and conveniently through its portal
The average price for a comprehensive car insurance policy has fallen for the third consecutive quarter, as insurers react to anticipated government reform of spurious claims activity, according to the latest AA British Insurance Premium Index
The Supreme Court has delivered a victory for personal injury lawyers, overturning a Court of Appeal judgement that held that insurers could go behind their backs and settle directly with claimants
A ghost broker who sold fake car insurance policies and made fraudulent motor insurance claims worth £321,000 for fictional car accidents has been sentenced to almost four years in prison
Former DAS Insurance CEO Paul Asplin defrauded the insurer by failing to declare his interest in companies that he passed work on to, Southwark Crown Court has heard
Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) president Brett Dixon has mocked the £35 ‘saving’ that the government and insurers put forward as the chief benefit of passing the Civil Liability Bill, pointing out that the “princely sum” off the cost of annual car insurance policies is tantamount to “a round of beers in the hotel bar”
Insurance company AXA and law firm Burges Salmon have called on legislators to introduce standards for vehicles that can switch between autonomous and human driving
The cost of car insurance policies fell £13 on average during the first three months of 2018, according to Confused.com’s latest price index
Zurich paid out 99% of all claims in the UK last year, with payments worth more than £1.7 billion
Law firm BLM has successfully defended a catastrophic brain injury case that centred on whether a supplier of security services was vicariously liable for an assault committed by a doorman at a nightclub it serviced