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Direct Line rejects Aviva takeover offer of £3.3bn

Insurer rebuffs move as ‘highly opportunistic’ and follows dismissal of offer from Belgian firm Ageas in February

The Guardian - UK · Nov 27, 2024

Direct Line to axe about 550 jobs as part of £50m cost-cutting drive

Company to shed about 6% of its workforce of 9,000 as it loses car insurance customers

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2024

Huge insurance firm with offices in Scotland to cut 550 jobs

Direct Line Group has revealed plans to axe around 550 jobs as it looks to cut costs amid a turnaround at the insurer ...

The National (Scotland) · Nov 11, 2024

Direct Line to finally launch on price comparison websites

The insurance brand will launch on price comparison websites with a new suite of motor insurance products

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2024

Direct Line rings the changes with new CFO brought in from Aviva after recent spate of setbacks

After rejecting a £3.1 billion international bid, there are more top-level changes at the FTSE 250 firm

Evening Standard · Apr 10, 2024

Bed bug callouts soared by a fifth in London last year

Boroughs in the capital spent more than £270,000 dealing with bed bugs last year

Evening Standard · Apr 4, 2024

Direct Line rejects £3.1bn takeover offer from Belgian rival

British insurer says offer last month from Ageas was ‘highly opportunistic’, after shares surge on talk of bid

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2024

‘The quotes were £5,000 or more’: electric vehicle owners face soaring insurance costs

Drivers who ditched petrol and diesel to help save the planet face huge price rises in premiums

The Guardian - UK · Sep 30, 2023

Robert De Niro is disgracing himself – and Taxi Driver – by starring in an Uber advert

By joining the likes of Harvey Keitel for Direct Line and Judi Dench for Money Supermarket, the Oscar winner is threatening his legacy by nodding to his ‘Taxi Driver’ character in a TV commercial for a ride-sharing app, writes Nick Hilton. What is he thinking?

The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2023

Record spike in insurance firms ripping off drivers over value of their car

Exclusive: Drivers of BMW, Mercedes and Land Rover cars are worst affected with underpayments of £1,000, according to research

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2023