Fri 06 Jun 1999

Internet life assurance firm offers low-cost alternative

The persistent belief that life assurance is sold, not bought, is one of the main reasons that the sector has been slow to take to the Internet outside the US.

However, a Wicklow-based firm LABrokers has just launched an online insurance brokerage service, the first of its kind in the State and one of the first instances of an Irish firm in the financial services sector using the Internet to offer a low-cost product alternative…..(archives)