Donegal TD says action on insurance industry welcome
A Donegal TD is welcoming raids by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission on a number of insurance companies and brokers as part of an investigation into alleged price-fixing. The Commission has declined to comment to Ocean FM News or say where the raids took place. But Sinn Fein finance…
Setanta insurance claimants victims of a bigger battle says Donegal TD
A Sinn Fein TD says the thousands of claimants waiting for compensation after the liquidation of Setanta insurance are ‘innocent victims of a bigger battle.’ Donegal Deputy Pearse Doherty says the Minister for Finance told him nearly two years ago that the Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland would be paying…
Fianna Fail Senator slams treatment of Sligo’s ‘Good Samaritan’
A Fianna Fail senator has described it as ‘an absolute scandal’ the way an insurance company is treating a Sligo man who came to the assistance of a car accident victim in Co. Leitrim recently. Paul Egan, a HSE employee, gave shelter in his car to an 18-year old woman…
Public meeting in Sligo tonight on rising insurance premiums
A Sligo councillor says private motorists are not the only people hit by sky-rocketing motor insurance premiums. People Before Profit Councillor Gino O Boyle says some bus and taxi companies and those using vehicles for their work and businesses have seen premium increases of five to six hundred per cent.…
Calls to re-establish the Motor Insurance Advisory Board
A Sligo Leitrim TD has hit out at what he says are increases of more than 60 per cent in insurance costs for motorists in the past two years. Speaking on a motion he proposed in the Dail, Deputy Marc MacSharry highlighted how people in rural Ireland — including young…