IN BRIEF: Direct Line shareholders approve sale of business to RSA

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Direct Line Insurance Group PLC - Bromley, England-based motor and home insurer - Confirms the sale of its brokered commercial insurance business lines to RSA Insurance Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intact Financial Corp, has been approved by shareholders at today’s general meeting. Expects to receive the initial consideration within five business days, in accordance with the terms of the deal. Explains this will provide a significant uplift to the continuing group’s pro-forma solvency capital ratio, and this uplift is expected to be around 45 percentage points.

Current stock price: 164.50 pence

12-month change: down 16%

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