The number of motorists breaking down as a result of running out of fuel increased to 827,000 in 2014, up 50,000 on 2013, an insurer has found.

The new regulatory regime, Solvency II, could add up to 10% to pension buyout deals, according to PwC.

Police forces across the UK have seized at least 27,688 uninsured cars in 2015 to date, including luxury brands such as Ferraris and Lamborghinis, according to research by Churchill.

The over-55s in Northern Ireland are the least confident about spotting pension frauds compared to the rest of the UK, according to research.

A famous car crash scene in cult film The Blues Brothers would have resulted in the largest insurance claim in movie history, research has found.

A slump in global stock markets triggered by falls in China resulted in the UK private sector pension deficit increasing by £30bn yesterday, according to Hymans Robertson.

Insurance claims for deafness in the UK “have spiked after a short-lived respite in 2014”, according to PwC.

Nearly all (96%) of financial advisers think the state pension will change, and of those, two in five expect it to become less generous, according to a survey by Aegon.

Turnover in the trade credit insurance sector in the UK increased by 6.6% to £315bn in 2014, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI) .