Doubling car spares price puts pressure on cover premiums

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Doubling car spares price puts pressure on cover premiums. FILE PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK

Escalating prices of car parts have hit motor insurers hard, squeezing their margins further in the wake of an unrelenting weakening of the Kenyan shilling.

The price increase, at a time when some parts have become harder to find, has pushed insurers into a tight corner with increasing costs of servicing claims, forcing them to react by revising upwards the monthly premiums for new customers as well as those renewing their policies.

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