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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Miles Brignall

Is the car insurance industry driving up prices to take us for a ride?

The cost of car repairs is the key reason that insurers are giving to justify soaring premiums
The cost of car repairs is the key reason that insurers are giving to justify soaring premiums. Photograph: Dejan Ilic/Alamy

Can you please investigate whether Britain’s car insurers are using the cost of living crisis as an excuse to push though unjustified, above-inflation premium increases?

When I was complaining to a colleague, who works in the car insurance business, that insurance on my electric VW Golf had doubled, he sent me some claims data that appears to suggest the increase is completely unjustified.

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