Sites like Moneysupermarket, Confused and USWICH and other comparison sites selling travel insurance and other products have been hauled over the coals in FSA report.
This article from the BBC highlights concerns raised by the FSA that:
5 Reasons to Beware: Insurance Comparison Websites
July 18th, 2008 — travel insurance
Moneybox holiday finance and travel insurance phone in
July 18th, 2008 — Travel Industry
Package holiday surcharges, currency conversion, travel insurance*, luggage loss are some of the topics covered in this weeks phone in. More woes from customers who are STILL buying holiday insurance from their travel agents. More woes from people who’s cards are eaten by machines abroad… Continue reading →
Money Supermarket holiday insurance and Confused.com travel insurance Criticised in FSA Report
May 8th, 2008 — General Insurance
A new report published by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has criticised (some) insurance comparison websites stating that, although the sites were properly authorised, there was “mixed evidence in the clarity, fairness and accuracy of information given to customers“. Amongst their concerns: Continue reading →
Let’s NOT Hold Another Meeting!
May 2nd, 2008 — random
Hey, it’s almost the weekend… this made me laugh!
Today’s resolution: skip at least one meeting every day for the next two weeks. Watch what happens.
Credit: Seth Godin
Internet Access - A Human Right
April 14th, 2008 — Legal action
MEPs narrowly voted against calls to cut off internet access for persistent pirates.
This just in from the BBC:
European politicians have voted down calls to throw suspected file-sharers off the net.
The idea to cut off persistent pirates formed part of a wide-ranging report on creative industries written for the European parliament.
But in a narrow vote MEPs backed an amendment to the report which said net bans conflicted with “civil liberties and human rights”.
It puts MEPS at odds with governments planning tough action against pirates.
Mortgage misery - moneybox live podcast
April 11th, 2008 — random
Mortgage misery - insight on the Credit Crunch and just how bad these guys think it will get.
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Heathrow Terminal 5 Nightmares - are You insured?
March 28th, 2008 — Travel Industry
Heathrow Terminal Five has was been touted as relief for baggage nightmares. However, the queues at check-in could not have gone much worse when it opened to the public yesterday, 27th March 2008! Continue reading →
Is this really news?
March 28th, 2008 — random
I’m trying to launch a new travel insurance brand (the ulitimate!) and so am really quite interested in everything [travel insurance].
This came up in Google news: More tourists buy travel insurance in case of trip cancellation, illness - that’s the headline? Continue reading →
Over 50, Overpriced, Oversight?
March 27th, 2008 — General Insurance
Don’t ask me what I was doing reading The Herald (hey, my woman’s away on business - you’d be surprised how many hours I clocked up here in the office in the past few days!)
Anyway, I came across this article on how the over 55s are taking over the world but also paying through the nose for it - this caught my eye: Continue reading →
Back-from-the-dead insurance fraudster committed for trial
March 14th, 2008 — Legal action
Magistrates have ruled that John Darwin and his wife will go before the crown court.
The 57-year-old and his wife Anne, 55, of Seaton Carew, are jointlyaccused of six counts of obtaining money by deception, totalling nearly
£250,000.
