View from the top: An historically good idea

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With the private motor market effectively commoditised, now the spotlight for personal lines insurers is on the perceived El Dorado of the online SME market. We can be sure that a VW Golf that is built in Germany, China or Indonesia is of virtually identical quality when it leaves the factory — but we certainly can't say the same about any SME business when it is created.

The online model depends on increasingly sophisticated rating engines — which get exponentially more expensive to build and then manage the more complex the rating criteria used. Because of the

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