Car insurance premiums rise nearly 20% in a year
High costs and complexity of repairing cars fitted with expensive technology increased premiums.
Motorists paid £44 or 6.5 percent more on average for their comprehensive car insurance premiums in the second quarter of 2016 compared with the same period last year according to a Confused.com car insurance price index in association with Willis Towers Watson.
This was due to the high costs and complexity of repairing cars fitted with expensive technology, it said.
Annual increase
The research also showed that this means compared with 12 months ago policies have jumped in price by 19.2% on
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