Insurance

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The practice of insurance companies stealthily hiking policy prices when customers renew looks set to become a thing of the past, following the introduction of new rules from next April that will force firms to spell out exactly how much a renewed premium costs compared with the previous year.

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Loyal customers face extra fees of up to £50 a year as a result of sticking with their existing insurance company, a MoneySavingExpert.com investigation reveals – with firms such as Budget, Hastings, Saga and Swinton among those to add on 'admin fees' at renewal.

A company has been fined almost £2.4 million after "serious failings" with its PPI complaints handling process meant customers initially missed out on more than £70 million in compensation.

Complaints about payday loans and packaged bank accounts have skyrocketed over the last year, but not by enough to knock PPI off its perch as the most complained about financial product.

Homeowners will be looking to the skies and to Westminster after being told that future home insurance rises will depend on the weather and further tax hikes.

Car insurance prices are up sharply over the last 12mths, whether you take the AA Index's 20% increase (the average rising from £465 to £561) or the Association of British Insurers' 10%. And both predict rises to continue this year yet many can act now to beat them.

Homeowners living in flood-prone parts of the UK are now able to obtain substantially cheaper home insurance under a Government-backed scheme, in some cases slashing thousands off their costs. But everyone else will be expected to stump up an average of £10 a year if insurers decide to pass on associated costs.

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