Insurance

Holidaymakers have just hours to avoid a rise in the cost of long-haul British Airways flights.

Banks are putting up a desperate fight to hold on to an estimated £2 billion in mis-sold debt insurance by flouting new rules that could mean compensation for around three million victims.

Some victims of debt insurance mis-selling may have to wait over two years to discover if they will receive compensation.

Holidaymakers have been urged to consider buying travel insurance soon to beat predicted price hikes over the coming months.

Motorists could face double digit price hikes in car insurance costs for the foreseeable future, experts have warned.

Britain's six million public sector workers intent on unemployment insurance should buy soon or risk being excluded, experts insist.

A ban on the sale of payment protection insurance (PPI) at the same time as credit cards, loans and mortgages will go ahead, the competition watchdog said today.

Lloyds Banking Group has been joined by many of its rivals in freezing payment protection insurance (PPI) claims.

Santander has broken ranks and become an unlikely consumer champion by refusing to take part in controversial legal plans by banks to block mass compensation to payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling victims.

A host of industry experts are calling for radical reform of insurance rules on consumers' disclosure requirements to prevent unfair rejection of claims.