When insurers first started covering motor vehicles, they had a fairly obvious problem: nobody knew what the risk looked like. In 1904, one of the early motor policies written through Lloyd’s of London reportedly borrowed from marine insurance, describing the car as a “ship on land”. Insurers were dealing with unfamiliar risks, from collisions with horses to engine fires and leaking petrol tanks. There was no long claims history to tell them wha…
This story is only covered by news sources that have yet to be evaluated by the independent media monitoring agencies we use to assess the quality and reliability of news outlets on our platform. Learn more here.