Time for brokers to rise above the customary bashing
During a week in which the Insurance Age newsdesk was largely consumed by the usual swathe of half-year financial results, one piece of broker bashing still struck a chord.
A mystery shopping exercise by the Daily Mail's sister finance title This is Money warned that brokers can lead to"wallet-busting differences" when compared to people buying their insurance directly through a price comparison website.
In fact, the article warned that buying insurance through brokers could push the price of premiums up by £500 a year. It led to Biba expressing its disappointment with the article.
Certainly, it is always easy to hit the middlemen. But the report most definitely
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