Telematics
Insurance Strategy 2012: Insurers overlook brand power at their peril
The power of branding is an important tool for insurers to compete in a volatile market.
Insurance Strategy 2012: Telematics is about the customer, not the insurer
Telematics needs to be about the customer rather than the insurer, according to Ian Hughes, Consumer Intelligence chief executive.
Telematics box tested in car rally
Cobra UK has released a white paper on the performance of its telematics box after testing it for three days at the Ulster Rally.
Post Blog: The telematics white elephant
Is telematics the cure for the ills of the motor market? Or is the rise in the use of black box technology a false dawn? Greg Bannister explains.
NHS pilots QBE's telematics system
North East Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust has joined forces with QBE's motor risk management team to pilot a telematics system.
Axa launches telematics product for Irish drivers
Axa Ireland has launched a telematics product for young drivers in conjunction with MyDrive Solutions.
Equality Act: Age concern
The Home Office has exempted the insurance industry from the Equality Act, allowing underwriters to continue using age as a risk factor. But will Europe intervene as it did with gender?
Transactor to go live with new broker telematics offering
Insurance software specialist Transactor has teamed up with broker Carrot Car Insurance to produce a new personal lines telematics offering.
Confused launches 'Motor Mate' app in bid to boost telematics sales
Bosses at Confused hope to drive up interest in telematics technology among young motorists, following the launch of a smartphone app which rewards good driving with cash back prizes.
Aviva bullish 'take-two' on telematics will put consumer take-up woes to bed
Aviva has defended its decision to re-enter the private car telematics space, four years after pulling out of a market it helped pioneer only to suffer poor take-up, stressing that consumers are now ready to embrace a less intrusive form of the 'black…
Post magazine - 9/16 August 2012
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Aviva returns to telematics with private car smartphone app
Aviva has re-entered the telematics private car market after four years with a new smartphone behavioural driving app which could save motorists up to 20% on their motor insurance.
Wunelli launches driving simulator app
Telematics insurance business Wunelli has launched a smartphone safe driving simulator app which allows young motorists to test their driving skills and determine whether they can save on car insurance.
Co-op and Hastings sign up to telematics aggregator Compare The Box
Co-operative Insurance, Hastings Direct and Swinton are set to go live with telematics offerings on Go Compare and Wunelli's joint aggregator offering, Compare the Box.
Telematics Expo: Telematics set for mainstream, claims SSP boss
Telematics has a "mainstream" future despite its niche beginnings, according to SSP's managing director of insurance.
Telematics Expo: Feedback not a quick fix for improving driving standards
Incorporating a telematics box into a driver's car does not necessarily make a policyholder a safer or better driver, despite claims to the contrary.
Telematics Expo: Data fears unfounded in a social media world
A fear of telematics owing to data protection and privacy issues is outdated in a world where people voluntarily share so much information online.
Telematics Expo: Industry must take the telematics plunge
Insurers were warned not to pontificate over the 'VHS or Betamax' debate and immerse themselves in telematics now or risk falling behind.
Confused unveils new telematics service and TV advert
Confused has launched new telematics service with five insurers and is due to go live with a sixth, Hastings Direct, tomorrow.
Post magazine - 26 July 2012
The latest issue of Post is now available to subscribers as a digital and interactive e-book.
Your say: Different motor markets
Penny Searles, managing director of Wunelli, answers LV managing director John O'Roarke's comments about telematics.
BIA 2012: The E-Business Award
Winner: Insurethebox Insurethebox may be the new kid on the block but, with three-quarters of the telematics market, the firm is ahead in its chosen market, writes Chinwe Akomah.
Telematics sales increase 'fivefold'
Telematics insurance sales have increased fivefold in the past two years and are set to snowball to around 500 000 in the next two years.
Telematics could deliver an 'Olympic-sized' saving to UK economy
Coverbox has urged the government to encourage take-up of telematics among drivers.