Aviva, one of the UK's best known insurers, announced a catastrophic loss on Thursday morning of £3.05 billion, driven by the writedown of its US bus...

The second wettest British summer on record has cost insurers £1.19 billion - the highest annual figure in five years. Around 486,000 claims were ...

The payment protection insurance (PPI) furore is far from over, as new data from the financial ombudsman shoes almost half of the PPI complaints broug...

Champagne corks may soon be popping in the City again after data revealed the worst may have finally passed for the financial services sector. Figu...

Global insurance giant AIG, which was saved by a bailout following the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, is considering joining a legal case that...

Environment secretary Owen Paterson has derided reports that the government was struggling to secure a new deal with flood insurers for vulnerable hom...

Dogs and coffee cups are among causes of accidents to car drivers, according to a poll. Inappropriate footwear is also to blame for some crashes, a...

Barclays Bank's announced today it has put aside a further £700 million to pay claims for mis-sold payment protection, taking its total claims pot to...

Direct Line's initial public offering today represents good value for those looking to buy, according to stock analysts. Investment experts have sa...

Confused.com has announced a new partnership with MyJobMatcher.com to offer customers new way of searching for a job. The online comparison servic...

Insurers are facing mounting concerns about whether householders and businesses in high-risk flooding areas will be able to take out insurance at a re...

Specialist insurance market Lloyd's of London announced its most profitable half-year results since 2008. Lloyd’s, a marketplace in London where ...

This month's Office of National Statistics employment figures have offered positive, albeit tentative, signs of growth in the British labour market. While overall unemployment fell by only 7,000, if one looks more closely at the figures they potentially reveal a booming entrepreneurial spirit in Britain.

Private investors will get the chance to buy shares in some of the biggest household names in insurance after RBS announced it will put its insurance ...

Over the years there have been some very high profile instances of uncovered frauds and here are six of the most spectacular to hit the headlines.

Car insurance specialist RIAS has been banned from broadcasting an advert asking "Why pay more than £195?". Two complainants challenged a televisi...