Treasury rejects calls for greater regulation of price comparison sites
The Treasury has rebuffed calls for greater regulation of price comparison sites, after a specialist construction broker argued they were leading to under-insurance.
Construction Insure’s Mark Herbert wrote to it to request greater regulation, claiming that the use of aggregators by construction professionals was leading to a huge insurance shortfall in SME
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