{"id":110247,"date":"2016-01-27T10:42:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=110247"},"modified":"2016-01-27T10:42:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:42:02","slug":"virgin-money-insurance-clients-moved-to-dial-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/110247\/virgin-money-insurance-clients-moved-to-dial-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Money insurance clients moved to Dial Direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Money insurance has announced that the group&#8217;s partnership with Dial Direct has ended.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Money and Dial Direct had been in partnership since October 2010, where Virgin&#8217;s short- and long-term insurance polices were underwritten by the Dial Direct and 1Life Insurance.<\/p>\n<p>Effective 1 March 2016, the partnership will come to an end, and Virgin Money clients will have their policies moved directly to Dial Direct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the two businesses are moving in different directions, the current partnership is not being renewed, through mutual and amicable consent,&#8221; Virgin said.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will have minimal impact on clients, the group noted.<\/p>\n<p>Policies will still be provided, administered and underwritten by Dial Direct, whose branding will now reflect on all documentation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This change will have no effect on your policy contract or your premium,&#8221; it said. &#8220;The only change is that all Virgin Money policies will now be handled directly by Dial Direct and 1Life Insurance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on insurance<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How tech is changing insurance in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wealth\/107593\/how-tech-is-changing-insurance-in-south-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How tech is changing insurance in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Fresh push for compulsory car insurance in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/103203\/fresh-push-for-compulsory-car-insurance-in-south-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fresh push for compulsory car insurance in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Here are the main reasons why your insurance claims are rejected\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/89354\/here-are-the-main-reasons-why-your-insurance-claims-are-rejected\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Here are the main reasons why your insurance claims are rejected<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Money insurance has announced that the group&#8217;s partnership with Dial Direct has ended &#8211; here&#8217;s how clients will be affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":110249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[25,10447,4023,2860],"class_list":["post-110247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-active","tag-dial-direct","tag-insurance","tag-virgin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110255,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110247\/revisions\/110255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}