Direct Line car insurance has won a hearing at the Court of Appeal against eSure, who used a similar mark – a mouse with wheels – to Direct Line in a series of advertisements run in 2004. Direct Line had been using a telephone on wheels in its advertising since 1990. Just a few days […]

The Business Sale Report reports that Insurance Australia Group Ltd, the car and home insurer, has (IAG) has put three of its UK insurance businesses up for sale. The businesses on the block include the broking division of Equity Insurance, Advantage Insurance and Hastings Insurance. This comes as a surprise to many as […]

We have a note in from Halifax car insurance that they are now offering a five year guarantee on repairs if a customer uses one of the recommended repairers. If you’ve had trouble in the past with shoddy repairers, as I had last year after someone pranged the back of my Mercedes ML270i, this could […]

One third of motorists are victims of vandalism, according to a survey commissioned by Direct Line car insurance. Only two years ago this figure was only 10%, a shocking increase in such a short time. The most startling statistic to emerge is that there has been a fifty percent increase in vandalism offences amongst females […]

Research just produced by Swiftcover reveals that millions of women throughout the UK could be paying up to £300 too much for their car insurance to firms that supposedly specialise in insurance for the fairer sex. Evidence suggests that women are, in fact, safer drivers than men. Not only do women have less accidents than […]

Several car insurance companies are now offering `offset’ car insurance deals. First seen early in 2007, these carbon neutral policies are now becoming more popular as motorists and seek to appease their guilt. car insurance companies, you can be sure, are not quite as altruistic, but nevertheless have seen a way to underline their […]

A post-Budget poll has revealed that 50% of people thinking about buying a new car are now significantly less likely to buy a high-emissions vehicle. Direct Line car insurance commissioned Opinium Research to conduct the survey of over 2000 UK adults to assess the demand for high-emissions vehicles in the wake of the government’s […]

Here’s a handy guide to the new car tax bands as announced in the March 2008 Budget. The thirteen tax bands are calculated by the amount of CO2 your car produces. Any car producing under 100 CO2 g/km range is not taxable at all, whereas gas guzzlers including top-end sports cars to Mercvedes SUVs will […]

Easter will see many UK holidaymakers heading for the sun. But, according to excess insurance experts, Insurance4carhire.com, those people renting cars on the continent are vulnerable to massive excess charges of up to £1000. European car rental firms will often just take this off the credit card details they have for the driver. Insurance4carhire.com carried […]