Insurance News

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1. Hidden Clauses Leave Homeowners Inadequately Insured
   Making a successful claim on your house insurance could depend on the hidden catches and exclusions contained within your home insurance policy.
2. Remember To Insure For Christmas - This certainly raises the cost of Christmas for many families, but how to afford this outlay isn’t the reason for Churchill pointing out the cost. Rather the implications of adding this much value into your home could have on your insurance cover.
3. Time To Revamp Your Home Insurance - It seems as a nation we pay little attention to our home insurance cover once we’ve bought it, treating home contents cover like a commodity that doesn’t change but will continue to protect us and remain as good a deal as when we signed up to it.
4. Life Insurance – Get Cover For Less - A boom in the life insurance market due to consumers desiring the safety and security of life insurance to provide for their loved ones should the worst happen has led to lowered premiums.
5. Sound Insurance Advice for New Car Buyers - With the new ‘55’ registration plate released a few weeks ago, hundreds of motorists have purchased new cars, with many more expected to follow suit. How many, though, will give insurance much consideration?
6. AA Muscles in on Life Insurance - The AA has announced that it is to branch into life insurance, increasing its already impressive financial services portfolio.
7. Travel insurance a must for holidays - Nearly a quarter of a million UK travellers will require their travel insurance to cover the costs of medical treatment this year, while on holiday.
8. Insurance Fraud Rife In America - The state of New York has a $1 billion a year in insurance fraud and part of this is made up of car insurance fraud. This in turn leads to, as we all know our car insurance premiums rising even if we have not made any claims, with these rises accounting for the cost of fraudulent claims.
9. Last Fling for the Little Old Ladies - Well it has been revealed by AA car insurance, that woman of a certain age (60’s and 70’s) are opting for one last carefree moment and splashing the cash on soft-topped cars
10. Look At Personal Injury Protection - How would you feel if this happened to you? You were minding you own business and as you were taking a leisurely stroll to the store for some fresh milk, and as you are crossing at the junction, you are hit by a car, you are fine apart for a few bumps and bruises, though you did not know this until you had paid a visit to the emergency ward for some x-rays, to confirm that you were free from any broken bones.
11. US Car Insurance Premiums Fall - Great news on the car insurance front for many Americans, as they are finding that their premiums have fallen, with an overall rise of just 1.5% being forecast this year. Some good news, after the recent rises in the cost of gas, that has not went down to well in a lot of quarters.
12. Young Drivers' Difficulties With Insurance - All young drivers will know of the difficulty of trying to find car insurance, that doesn’t cost as much per annum, than the price of the car that they are looking to buy.
13. Gaps in Home Insurance
    The problem of a gap in home contents insurance is one that has been documented recently, with examples of a sudden rise in the value of contents due to events such as getting married.
14. Children’s crashes cost parents £128m
    Teenagers are costing their parents millions as they are paying £128m in damages caused by their children crashing their cars.
15. Britons and Travel Insurance
    Halifax is traditionally a building society, however like many financial institutions they provide insurance and other financial products. As such they’re interested in the habits of the UK consumer and have recently conducted a survey into our holidaymaking habits.
16. Increase in number of women buying life insurance
    According to LifesSearch, the number of UK women buying life insurance has doubled in the in the last six years.
17. UK Households Ignore Home Insurance
    Halifax has revealed that a great many British consumers have a potentially disastrous gap in insurance cover by having no home contents insurance. According to Halifax’s new figures 7 million people have no home insurance cover at all and 13.6 million only have limited cover.
18. New schemes could half insurance for young drivers
    Younger drivers could cut the cost of their car insurance in half thanks to new and innovative schemes introduced by some insurers. Combined with more sophisticated shopping techniques, young drivers could make considerable savings.
19. Motorists lie to insurance companies
    According to research by RAC Financial Services, one in ten motorists lie to insurance firms to keep premiums low.
20. Car Insurance Premiums
    Car insurance premiums have been in the spotlight over the last week, partially due to the large number of claims that follows a Bank Holiday highlighted by Lloyds TSB Insurance.
21. Premiums fall due to online insurers
    A new study has revealed that online car insurance quotes are 8.2% cheaper than those given over the phone. Insurance is now one of the many services discounted if purchased online
22. Don’t be taken for a ride
    Due to the rise in scooter thefts, the Home Office has launched a campaign with the aim of encouraging scooter owners to safeguard their bikes. More than 50 scooters and mopeds are stolen every day in the UK ...
23. Sainsbury's Pet Insurance Charter
    Sainsbury’s Bank have produced a new Pet Insurance Charter, and found that only one policy in eight meets its requirements according to the new charter.
24. Surveys warn of the rising cost of car insurance
    The average comprehensive car insurance premium quote fell by 0.7 per cent to £750 over the last three months due to temperate winter months, the AA Insurance Index revealed.
25. Women elect for cheaper car insurance…rather than equality
    Under the EC’s gender directive, insurance firms would have banned from offering cheaper premiums to women on the basis that they were statistically safer drivers. As an alternative, insurance firms will be allowed to take gender into account when setting premiums, after a deal had been agreed.
26. Profits for Car Insurance Giants
    Since floating on the stock market last year, Admiral the car insurer has recorded a record profit of £100 million. In its first result since said floatation, it has given many of it’s 15 hundred staff in the Welsh cities of Swansea and Cardiff, a fantastic cash bonus.
27. Car Insurance Changes
    If there’s one thing that makes the blood boil when it comes to car insurance, it’s when you are told that your premiums are going up this year, due to claims made by motorists who had been involved in an accident with an un-insured driver
28. Online Car Insurance Increase
    With the upsurge in the use of the Internet to apply for your Car and home insurance the U.K has now got three-quarters of insurance customers buying their insurance on line.
29. Saving on Insurance Premiums
    Saving money on everyday bills and policies is something when somebody mentions it and they have done it we say that we will have to do that, though when it comes down to it we say “I’ll do it tomorrow” and we never do, because we really are just to lazy to any thing about it.
30. Lacking Home Insurance Cover
    Home contents insurance is one of those everyday things most of us give little thought too other than to check the renewal form once a year. Yet with most of us constantly upgrading our home contents and all the great home insurance deals out there we’d be wise to give a little more time to ensuring we have adequate home contents cover at competitive rates.
31. Holiday Insurance Cover
    As winter draws to an end and spring approaches many of us will start planning our holidays. Whether it’s a relaxing break away in the sun, a short stint skiing or finding some little known local spot somewhere we all need a break from work and some time to relax.
32. UK Insurance Cheats Exposed
    Insurers uncovered fraudulent insurance claims worth £3.5 million per week last year. Claims relating to accidental spills, personal injuries and car crashes were exposed.