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Infographic: Seeing potential for home insurance and the connected home
Connected home technology is in nearly one in three homes, yet many consumers have held back from purchasing devices. This infographic highlights the barriers to purchasing devices and the risk prevention technologies that can be promoted to persuade consumers to adopt connected home technology.
General insurance pricing practices: Interim report
The FCA’s interim report sets out concerns about how pricing in the home and motor insurance markets leads to consumers who do not switch or negotiate with their provider paying high prices for their insurance. This report also sets out some potential remedies to tackle concerns about pricing.
Infographic: Connecting the home with the home insurance market
Thirty percent of consumers use at least one connected home technology device, with consumers placing a relatively high degree of trust in a recommendation from a home insurance provider to adopt connected home technology. This infographic illustrates the biggest influences for purchasing a device.
Infographic: Connecting with the connected home
As new connected home technologies come to market, the general consumer interest in such technologies is growing. This infographic highlights consumer attitudes towards connected home technology and how insurers can leverage these technologies to benefit policyholders and reduce claims.
Spotlight: The future of pricing - Tightening the noose
The dual pricing noose is slowly tightening around the insurance industry’s neck. Its laudable attempts to escape from the regulatory hangman seem increasingly futile as the pressure is mounting on the Financial Conduct Authority to take action. This article focuses on the implications for insurers.
Roundtable: Fair sharing
Short-term letting using platforms such as Airbnb is on the rise. How is the insurance sector responding? To find out more, Insurance Age in association with Pikl gathered a number of industry specialists.
Video: The inside scoop on the importance of broker relationships
Hear Jon Santer (Head of Home Underwriting, LV= Broker) explain the importance of broker relationships in the Home Insurance Market. He also discusses how they have recognised customer needs and how their products are 'Not Just Vanilla'…
Infographic: Prefill for home insurance - Faster, accurate and preferable
Based on the results of a recent LexisNexis Risk Solutions survey, this infographic illustrates consumer attitudes to having their data shared to prefill home insurance applications.
High net worth: A lot to lose
What do you buy the high net worth individual who has everything? By highlighting specific examples, ARAG’s Andy Talbot explains why legal expenses insurance tailored to suit the heightened and varied demands of the high net worth market is essential, to ensure such clients are fully covered.
Pricing practices in the retail general insurance sector: Household insurance
This report sets out the key findings of the FCA’s thematic work on the pricing practices of household insurance firms. It then details our expectations of firms and our next steps.