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Car Insurance Claim Confusion
Sorry about the previous version of this thread my spell checker seemed to screw it up!! A very weary hello to all, I hope you can offer some form of advice.:mad: About 4 months ago I had an accident on a mini round-about in which my car was hit on the rear by another vehicle approaching from the right. Idon't want to…
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Broker vs online comparison sites??
I recently saw a broker about a mortgage, and whilst I was there he tried to sell me some insurance policies. Buildings/Contents, Unemployment and mortgage life assurance. I listened and asked for printouts, just to see how they stacked up. He was insistant that I'd find cheaper online, but they would not be anywhere near…
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Insurance cancellation fee query
I took out home insurance with Swinton, this starts on 24th Dec and I paid over the phone but on receiving their information pack I now see the details are not the same as I had understood them to be when I spoke to someone on the phone, I want to cancel but the paperwork says they charge £45, can anyone tell me if they…
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Home content insurance and keeping receipts
Evening, In the event of a big insurance claim how do you actually prove what needs replacing without receipts for everything? I'm sure we have many items of value in our homes which we don't hold receipts for. Do you make a list? What do the insurance companies generally accept? Debating whether I can destroy some of my 3…
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Short Term Car Insurance
I was made redundant a few weeks ago, so I didn't renew my car insurance when it expired. I've just slipped on the ice while cycling and broken a wheel, so now I need insurance for a day to take the broken wheel to a repair shop! Where can I find a comparison site for short term insurance? There seem to be lots of…
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Selling a life insurance policy
In May 1998 I took out a whole-of-life policy for £58000 at about £73 per month. The original policy was with Scottish Amicable but is now with the Prudential. At the time I was 51 years old. I agreed that the sum assured would increase each year to keep in line with inflation. However, after 10 years and a second policy…
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Value of Life Assurance
Hi all, I hope this is the correct place to post this question. Recently my mum passed away and we've had to sort out the life assurance. There were a total of six policies all with the same company. Three of the policies were taken out by my grandmother in 1929, 1938 and 1939. The face value of these three policies…
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Accident At Work
Hi I had a accident 2 weeks ago at work, at the time i did not feel anything and have been ok, but recently i have ben getting pain on the side of my body were i fell. I believe do to the cold weather thats been setting in and carrying shopping. Is it too late for me to go to the docs etc to have it checked out, plus will…
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Had NCB longer than licence?
I'm due to renew my car insurance in December and when I use the websites recommended on MSE, I am unable to get an accurate quote because I will have 2 years NCB in December, but will only have held a licence for 1 year 8 months. Does anyone know any sites that allow me to input a NCB that is higher than the time I have…
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Insurance trick
I was in a car accident last week, the driver has admitted full liability. I informed my insurance provider and also informed them I recently obtained a speeding penalty. They immediately increased my premium by £140 and my excess increased from £250 to £750. Is this legal? I know for a fact if I had that speeding penalty…
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accident
Hi not sure if this is right place to post this..sorry if it isnt. My girlfriend was driving kids to school this morning, and it was snowing so she was driving at 16mph(digital display) and at a left turn turn she had to stop to let a bus which was on opposite side of road pass as, there was cars on it's own side of road.…
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Car accident Insurance Claim help
Last week I was in a car acident - fault of other party.He admitted liability at the time, and I hope that there will be no change in that. However, I am having back problems due to the prang and am not sure what I need to do to get the physical injury covered. The insurance co automatically get the car checked over, but…
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Who should I complain to ?? (Norwich Union)
Hi all, well we are getting a new car next week, well 5 year old but better than what we currently have and our current insurance runs out with norwich union on monday. We rang last night to look at a new quote for the new car and its coming up at £450+ on a 5 year old scenic and the woman from bangalor (supposedly…
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You don't always get NCB even though you didn't claim on your car insurance!!!!!
Just wanted to make others aware of this little pitfall that I have just found myself in! I always thought that if you had car insurance for a year and didn't claim on it, then you earned 1 years 'no claims discount' (NCD). If you had 2 continuous years without a claim, then you would have '2 years NCD' at the end of the 2…
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Damage by pets
I notice that in my home/contents insurance, and the few others I've seen, exclude damage done by the family pet. As I have a nice bouncy dog, I wonder if there is any cover out there I could get, just in case poochy jumps up and knocks the tv off the shelf! I suppose I could always lie and claim I / The kids, had done it,…
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Non-renewal of insurance
I've just tried to not renew insurance policies for both car and contents insurance (separate companies) because I've found significantly cheaper quotes elsewhere, and couldn't believe quite how pushy they were to try and keep me! I know they've got to make an effort to keep my business, but when the new quotes I was…
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Please Help with rearranging life insurances
Hi, can anyone help advise us on life insurance? We have been told we have too much! We are struggling for money at the moment so any cut backs would help. We have mutiple polices from each time we re mortgaged. We really need an unbiased opinion on which policies we no longer need, which I know our bank will not give us.…
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Income Protection Insurance Premium +++
Hello People, A little advise just to make sure I'm headed in the right direction. I took out Income protection insurance in August. I just received an email yesterday stating that my premium is going to be increased by 50% due to bad market conditions by Hitachi Insurance. I read the T&C and it doesn't even mention…
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Health Insurance advice
Hi everyone I'm leaving my job so I'll be losing my BUPA health insurance, so I've been trying to get quote to see if I could afford to carry on privately. BUPA have quoted me a 'discounted' £49.04 per month which I don't think I can afford. I've had a look on Monesupermarket and the cheapest one seems to be with Freedom…