Directline insurance
Direct Line
insurance
provide instant online quotes from their website, see below. Motor
insurance available for cars as well as home, travel and pet insurance.
On 2nd April
1985 Direct Line became the first UK insurance company to use the
telephone as its main channel of communication. Without middlemen
and fat commissions Direct Line offered cheaper insurance.
Direct Line
then introduced home, travel and pet insurance, loans, mortgages
and pensions and the list goes on. By
December 1993 Direct Line had become the UK's largest insurer of
privately-owned motor vehicles and in October 1995 Direct Line opened
their first Accident Management Centre in Wakefield.
By 1995 the
red telephone was trading in Spain under the name, LíneaDirecta
Aseguradora and 3years later they had become the country's leading
direct motor insurer. In 1999 Direct Line bought Green Flag, the
UK's third largest roadside recovery service. In 2001 Direct Line
acquired the German and Italian motoring insurance businesses of
US insurance company, Allstate.
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