Archive for the ‘News’ Category

New Electronic Life Insurance Application at theidol.com

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

  theidol.com are pleased to announce the launch of the Norwich Union Simplified Life application on our quote link life insurance comparison service , this is a new sophisticated online life insurance application from Norwich Union it is straightforward, easy and ...

Hidden Hiccups And How To Save On Car Insurance

Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Of the two million British drivers expected to drive their cars across the Continent this summer, it is expected that many of them will unwittingly be under insured. European law states that British car insurance will automatically cover your third ...

Retail Distribution Review

Friday, May 2nd, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

 The FSA has this week released an interim report on their Retail Distribution Review, this interim review sets out the FSA’s current thoughts on the future distribution of financial products in the retail sector. The review follows a lengthy consultation ...

Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Leading UK Life Insurance Company Legal & General have worked together with a University to create a tailored accredited course in specialist life insurance underwriting. The life insurer says this is the first course of its kind in the UK ...

Travel insurance Terminal 5

Friday, April 18th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

What a mess at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 with cancelled flights and huge amounts of lost or delayed luggage after massive problems with the baggage handling system since the new terminal opened, now passengers flying out of Terminal 5 are having insult ...

Financial highlights this week

Friday, April 11th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Lots of news in the financial markets this week, the Halifax released their latest house price index, the highlights showed a fall in house prices for the month of March by 2.5% overall in the UK, there was a mixed ...

Legal and General publish claims data

Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Legal and General one of the UK’s leading protection insurers has recently released their claim figures for critical illness insurance over the 2007 year. L&G say they paid out £110 million in critical illness insurance claims over the year. The ...

The insurance industry counts the cost of last week’s earthquake

Friday, March 7th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Insurers are counting the cost of last weeks earthquake, which  reached 5.2 on the Richter Scale, the epicentre was in the East Midlands and tremors were recorded as far a field from Devon to Dumfries. It was the biggest earthquake experienced ...

House price inflation down

Friday, February 29th, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

There is still a lot of doom and gloom on the financial markets this week.Today the Nationwide released their monthly report on the state of the housing market, the report highlights  a fall in house prices by 0.5% in February, this ...

Internet Sales On The UP

Friday, February 22nd, 2008 Posted in News | No Comments »

Lots of news this week on the rise of internet sale on a range of different products. We at theidol.com believe the internet should offer value for money products where customers can make a saving, by operating via the net ...