Britain may stop car, home insurers from penalizing loyal customers [Reuters]
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UK watchdog may ban some car, home insurance pricing practices - Reuters 2 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Some pricing practices in Britain’s 18 billion pound ($22 billion) car and home insurance market may need to be banned as competition is not working well, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Friday. The FCA, in interim conclusions from a study launched a year ago into how car and home insurers treat their customers, said that firms use complex pricing practices that allow them to raise prices for consumers that renew with them year on year, known as “price walking”. Six million policyholders paid high prices in 2018, and if they had paid the average price for a policy, they would collectively have saved 1.2 billion pounds, the watchdog said. This includes one in three people who are potentially vulnerable. “The options we are considering include limiting pricing practices that allow firms to charge higher prices to consumers who do not switch, for example, restricting or ba
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