John Duffy: Consumer NZ CEO on the increasing costs of car insurance

Published: May 22, 2024, 10:16 p.m.

Owning a car is getting more and more expensive.\xa0

Online Insurance Platform Quashed reported a 40% increase in average comprehensive and third-party quotes over the last year. \xa0

Stats NZ is reporting a 22.6% overall.\xa0

Consumer NZ CEO John Duffy told Mike Hosking that there\u2019s a lot of causes behind this, but a big one is unforeseen weather events such as Cyclone Gabrielle.\xa0

He said that insurers are seeing that that kind of event could happen again, and are updating their pricing accordingly.\xa0

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