Cost of Car Insurance Rises by 30pc

The rising cost of car insurance has meant that families will have to pay £843 a year, just for their car insurance. This adds further strain on families who are already under pressure to cope with the sky rocketing cost of living.

The motorists in the North of England are the ones who are the most severely affected by the rise in costs. They now have to pay annual premiums of nearly £1,400. The rate at which car insurance is rising is more than six times the current rate of inflation. The Consumer Price Index, which is the government’s preferred measure of inflation, has now reached 4.5 per cent.

A research, which was done by a car insurance comparison website, has shown that motorists in the major metropolitan cities have witnessed some of the biggest increases of car insurance rates, with drivers in Oldham and Bradford seeing a twenty eight per cent rise in the cost of comprehensive cover, with premiums reaching £1,437 and £1,394 in that order. Drive

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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 Insurance Auto No Comments

Get Additional Coverage with Umbrella Insurance

Umbrella insurance is more or less like the extra level of protection to help you in feeling secure about protecting your assets, and ultimately, your future. An umbrella insurance policy provides you with additional layers of liability protection. This policy will kick in when your home, auto, or any other insurance policy that you own are exhausted or used up. Your umbrella insurance policy takes over to provide you with the additional protection. As compared to the comfort of knowing you are covered with a reliable policy, the cost is really minimal.

Imagine these:

There is an auto accident caused by you (or your family member) or
Your pet accidentally attack your neighbor, or
A fire that spreads along your row of houses, and the fire started from your unit.

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Thursday, October 6th, 2011 Insurance News No Comments

Calculating Your Term Life Insurance Rates

A lot goes into your term life insurance rate. First off, there is an entire branch of mathematical science dedicated to it. This is the sub field of actuarial science. People are paid good money to calculate as much of the risks as is humanly possible, and then factor it all together so that the insurance company can provide you with insurance and make a profit.

What Factors Do Actuaries Look At?

How it works is that you and your lifestyle are first split up into all kinds of different characteristics. For example, if you are a female, you have a slightly longer life expectancy and a slightly lower risk of death annually.

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Wednesday, September 28th, 2011 Insurance Advice No Comments

Top 5 Causes of Car Accidents

Car accidents are one of the leading causes of death for young Americans. Improved safety features like passive restraints and infant car seats have actually cut the number of deaths on American roadways, but more than 30,000 people a year still lose their lives in motor vehicle accidents. While the most common causes of accidents are well known, many American drivers seem unable behave responsibility when they climb behind the wheel of a car.

Driving Under the Influence

Perennially number one on the hit parade, driving under the influence is the most common cause of all types of auto accidents, fatal and non fatal. State governments have enacted laws with harsh penalties for DUI and law enforcement agencies are working together to try to catch offenders before they have an accident.

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Monday, September 26th, 2011 Insurance Auto No Comments

Unclaimed Life Insurance Policies Funds: Resources and Tools

Locating money from lost life insurance and demutualization can be hard; however there are tools to help owners and heirs find these valuable assets.

Finding and claiming lost life insurance policies can be done using various methods. A State’s Missing Property Office may have some funds from unclaimed policies. However, there are no central depositories (federal or state) for these assets. A missing insurance policy is sometimes a problem confronted by legal heirs and beneficiaries who don’t know the company’s name in order to locate the policy.

Demutualization may be another source of unclaimed funds from life insurance policies. This

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Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Insurance Auto No Comments

Cat’s life– hanging by a thread

Dr. Jane Matheys Associate Veterinarian The Cat Doctor Veterinary Hospital For Pets Best Insurance

Oscar, a handsome 7-year-old male, black and white, short-haired cat was brought to our clinic because his owner thought he might have eaten embroidery thread. She had come home at the end of the day to find a trail of the string she left on the kitchen counter the day prior, wrapped around the legs of the counter bar stools. The next morning she noticed that he was listless, didn’t eat and had vomited clear fluid a couple of times. Unfortunately, Oscar’s owner didn’t have cat insurance. Sometimes pet owners assume that if their cats live indoors they will be safe from harm’s way. But cat

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Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Insurance Advice No Comments

Parents pass on bad driving habits, warns AXA

Research from AXA suggests that young driver behaviour, often condemned as the scourge of Britains roads, can at least in part be blamed on the way parents behave behind the wheel.

The study of young driver behaviour revealed that 18 to 30-year-olds are three times as likely to have points on their licence or a complete ban if their parents do.

And young drivers who witness their parents drink driving are seven times as likely to drink drive compared with those who have no memory of their parents drink driving. AXA’s research shows that 28% of those with parents who drink drive do so themselves.

The research showed that young drivers who consider their parents to be aggressive drivers are themselves much more likely to be aggressive on the road. T

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Saturday, September 24th, 2011 Insurance News No Comments