UK Excess Protection Insurance and Waivers: Market Dynamics, Affinities and Partnerships

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UK Excess Protection Insurance and Waivers: Market Dynamics, Affinities and Partnerships is a report investigating the market for excess protection insurance and waivers in the UK. Key features include: an outline of market drivers and the value, growth and segmentation of the market from 2010 to 2014; quantification and commentary concerning the segmentation of policies in force by distribution channels used to buy them in 2014; estimates for underwriter market shares in 2014; a comprehensive listing of major affinity and partnership marketing relationships visible at the time of the research in 2015 for these types of policy; and forecasts for the value of the market up to 2018.

In this report, excess protection insurance and waivers are defined in a broad sense as any contracts entered into by a consumer in order to avoid having to pay the excess or in order to obtain a refund for the excess paid on any given insurance policy in the event of a claim. This encompasses cover excess waivers that are not legally configured as insurance (most notably available from car rental firms) plus excess protection sold as an add-on to other policies (most notably motor insurance) as well as stand-alone excess protection insurance policies.

In keeping with 19 other studies in this series, research processes and sources used to create it include the following: primary interviews with leading brokers, underwriters and affinity / corporate partners active in this field; in-house data drawn from other Finaccord reports; and comprehensive analysis of secondary information from a diverse range of data sources including UK government departments and financial regulators, relevant lifestyle organisations and trade associations, specialist publications and published disclosures by competitors active in the market.

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