Category: News
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Leadership recognition
As our customers well know, we pride ourselves on providing exceptional customer service before anything else and have made it our mission to improve the industry by campaigning for better policies and making underhand tactics used by others in the business known to customers. The result is that customers become empowered to make informed decisions…
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NEW: Top-Up GAP insurance
Announcing: Top-Up GAP insurance. An annually renewable GAP insurance policy available for new or used cars up to 8-years old.
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Would You Help Someone To Drink Drive?
Hidden camera reveals 3 in 4 Britons would help a ‘drunk driver’ to get into their car to drive! A recent social experiment carried out by Midrive tested how many people would stop a ‘drunk driver’ and whether the gender of the driver had any impact. Rhiannon and Luke were sprayed with alcohol. They acted…
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Another one (unrated, offshore GAP insurer) bites the dust?
The reason we don’t pursue the cheapest possible GAP insurance prices from offshore, unrated underwriters (they eventually go bust) just got reinforced that little bit more. Following hot on the heels of Qudos Insurance A/S in Denmark going to the wall in late 2018 (which itself followed Alpha Insurance A/S (Denmark), Elite Insurance (Gibraltar) and…
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GAP insurance Eligibility Criteria Changes: Effective 22/01/2019
Please be aware that if you’re considering GAP insurance, the eligibility criteria for our policies is changing effective from midnight tomorrow night (Monday January 21st 2019). From Tuesday onwards (no exceptions), the following rules will apply: In addition, as of Friday last week, it’s now no longer possible to defer the start date of a…
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One week left to buy GAP insurance policies underwritten by UK General Insurance on behalf of Great Lakes Insurance SE
Midnight on January 21st 2019 will mark the beginning of the end of our time spent working with GAP insurance policies underwritten by UK General Insurance Ltd (UKG) on behalf of Great Lakes Insurance SE. In late 2018 UKG announced that January 21st 2019 would be the last day that they’d accept new policies on…
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Renewable 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 Year GAP Insurance Policies!
In what we believe is genuinely a UK first for GAP insurance, we’re formally announcing today that if you buy a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5-year Invoice or Replacement GAP insurance policy from us, when that policy approaches expiry we’ll give you the option of extending/renewing the policy for another one or in some…
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Shortfall.co.uk have been in touch…
On August 22nd, we updated our report detailing how our GAP insurance policies compare to those available from each of our online competitors. In the report, we highlighted the fact that it wasn’t entirely clear whether the Shortfall.co.uk policies incorporated a ‘Market Value’ clause (in terms of the Motor Insurer’s payout) or not. Perhaps not…
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ABI publishes their (confusing?) “Guide To Making Sense of Gap Insurance”
Today we were alerted to the fact that the ABI (Association of British Insurers) had recently published a “Guide To Making Sense Of Gap Insurance”. Given the recent wider industry focus on Gap Insurance by the likes of Which? and Defaqto, we were eager to discover the ABI’s take on this form of Insurance. The…
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Sale Extended to April 30th!
Following on from the recent improvements we made to our Gap Insurance policy terms and conditions, we were inundated with requests to extend our sale (providing Gap Insurance savings of up to 60%). Apparently, it was unfair that we should introduce what are now arguably the best Invoice and Replacement Gap Insurance policies available in…