Money Watch – Personal Finance Blog

Finally, after two years of trials, a new type of car insurance product from Norwich Union is available to all from today. Probably any well-adjusted human being would find this terribly boring, but not me! Thankfully for you Fools, I’m geeky enough to actually find this interesting, as it should suit a lot of you and hopefully reduce your premiums.

Low cost pay-as-you-drive cover will appeal to many, but is letting your insurer know where you are, 24 hours a day, a price worth paying?

If there’s a TV advertising jingle that has driven me mad over the last few months, it’s the one for Sheilas’ Wheels, the car insurance firm targeting women drivers. It might seem as if the company has been around for years, so ubiquitous is the jingle but in fact, it’s only just celebrated its first birthday.

Author: Emma Mayo
Speed cameras are already the bane of the driver’s existence. There’s a lot of dispute as to whether they do help save lives, but one thing’s for sure, the Government is making a lot of money out of our collective inability to keep within the speed limits.
If you thought it was bad before, […]

Waitrose and John Lewis customers will be able to add insurance, flights and tickets for events to their shopping baskets

Motor, home contents and travel insurance fraud costs insurance firms more than £1bn per year. in turn, this costs us, as insurers charge more in premiums to cover the loss. Conservative figures have it that 6% of us have exaggerated a claim and 2% have made one up, which, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI), means that around 3.3m people have committed insurance fraud in Britain.

Car insurance premiums have crept up throughout the year according to latest figures – Insurers are turning to technology to keep premiums down

According to a report from uSwitch, we Brits are wasting hundreds of millions of pounds every year, thanks to packaged current accounts.