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Analysis: Will lockdown car insurance profits trickle down to policyholders?

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Quieter roads have led many to assume that car insurers are in for pandemic profits. Post investigates calls for lockdown windfalls to be re-gifted to motorists.

As will have been apparent from many a state-sanctioned once-daily walk, the coronavirus lockdown has emptied the UK’s roads: at the end of March, traffic had dropped by as much as 73% across the

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