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Are Motor Insurance Premiums Being Wrongly Inflated? - Charles Bagot, Hardwicke

17/10/12. The Office of Fair Trading (‘OFT’) suspects so and has made a referral to the Competition Commission. The latter will be shining a light into the dark (and some might say murky) world of those who arrange, pay for and profit from repairing the vehicles of and hiring replacement vehicles to ‘not-at-fault’ drivers [OFT announcement: http://www.oft.gov.uk/news-and-updates/press/2012/85-12 ].

The OFT suspects that drivers’ insurance premiums are being inflated by insurers passing on in higher premiums the unnecessarily high costs of repairs and...

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