Analyst names insurers likely to face most disruption from pricing practices review
Disruption caused by any regulatory interventions on insurers’ pricing practices is more likely to affect insurers such as Direct Line Group, RSA and Saga than price comparison site-based underwriters such as Admiral and Hastings, Peel Hunt has predicted.
The Financial Conduct Authority published the interim report on its market study of pricing practices in home and motor insurance earlier this month.
In the report, the regulator said it had found a
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