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Recommendations for Classic Car Insurers please
I've been told that classic car insurers can offer policies which are significantly cheaper than standard policies, especially with lower mileage. Can anyone recommend a good classic car insurer please?
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Got insurance now what?
I've just got my first house contents insurance! phew that took an hour or two. More than with accidental and seems good policy, £198 but with £100 cashback certainly helps the premium. Now I have the insurance, what do I do now? Do I need to take pictures of my belongings? I don't have receipts, what about if I take my…
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Tesco Car Insurance & Driving in Europe
Hi, We've recently purchased a new car and need to sort out insurance. We want to go fully comprehensive. Tesco has come out one of the cheapest which we are happy to go with. However, we have a couple of queries: 1. We have a joint Tesco Clubcard (in my name though) - apparently to qualify for the 1000 Clubcard points,…
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car insurance question
i have two cars both in my name and i wish to be the main driver on both policies with my wife as second driver. am i ok to do this and use my previous no claims discount that I have build up in the past, but on both policies? ta!
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loa insuarnce
hello, abut 2 years ago i payed of a loan early. i had ppi with it so am i entitled to a refund on my ppi?
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Insurance for expats
I will hopefully be moving to Vietnam later in the year, initially for a period of 4 weeks of training, but then I will be working there indefinitely (when I will need to apply for a work visa). I just need to know what my options are with regards to medical insurance. What is the general advice and the things I need to be…
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Post Office Life Insurance
Hi, just wondered if anyone has taken up the Post Office's Life Insurance offer with £100 cashback? From what I understand you get the £100 at the end of your first year, but with this and £40 Quidco cashback, a year's cover for myself and my husband would only cost us £10....very tempting!
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Car insurance variables
I'm ready to renew and am playing around with variables on these online forms to see what really affects my quote. Does anyone know why having children under 16 would knock £70 off my quote?
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Car insurance, do i need to inform them (accident)
Hi. my son has had a little accident with a motorcycle. the guy was old and was shaken so my son phoned for an ambulance, the ambulance took the guy away and the police took away the motorcyle. My son was driving a car by the way, which was stationary when the cycle hit. the only damge to the cycle was a dammaged indicator…
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Using NCB earned on taxi policy - who will accept it for a private car???
I used to own a hackney cab and, as insurance for them can be quite expensive, I transferred by personal NCB to my taxi policy a few years ago. I have now left the taxi trade and would like to use the NCB that I have accrued (9 years!) on a private car policy - but nobody seems to want to take any notice of it. I would…
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Is it worth haggling with Direct Line for a better price?
I got a reasonable quote from them online, but being a moneysaver, i would like to pay a little less. Is it worth ringing them up and saying i had a better quote elsewhere (which i did, from Tesco) and can they can beat it? Has anyone done this or am i being too cheeky?
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Critical illness insurance
Hi Just wondering if anyone out there as much experience at taking on critical illness insurance companies when you need to claim on your policies. Its a long story but I used to work for a bank with whom I have all my insurance policies. I was retired on the grounds of ill health in may2007 after 18 months of hell they…
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Diabetic Travel Insurance
Hello Apologies if this has been asked/discussed in a previous thread, but I've had a quick look and nothing 'jumped out' at me. My 70 year old diabetic mother is off to New Zealand for a month in November. She has type 2 diabetes. Can anyone recommend a company that will give her travel insurance that won’t cost more than…
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Insurance & Assurance Post Cancer
Hi, I was diagnosed with and treated for breast cancer 7 years ago when I was 35. I'm now in remission. Now aged 42, my husband and I have 2 and a half year old twins. I only have my 'death in service' benefit through my employer plus my very expensive MPPI in place - the latter was set up before I was diagnosed. I did…
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Can i protect NCB from 0yrs onwards?
Hey everyone. I'm a young driver, insuring a group 11 car for the first time on own policy, having been a named driver for 6yrs. I want to have my own policy to start building my own NCB but just wondered if it's possible to protect the no-claims before actually having any held my own policy at all... I've called a couple…
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Problems with Elephant and/or Confused.com
It pays not to be honest... I have just taken out a car insurance policy with Elephant, after getting the cheapest quote via Confused.com and going through Cashback Junction to get money back. However it seems I have been caught out by the system and now Elephant want nearly £10 more for being honest. I filled in all…
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s bottrill
hello can anyone please help is there anyway of checking wether my father had life insurance we think he did but we havent come across any papers or evidence of one is there a web site or someone we can check with thanks
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Learner Driver Short-Term Insurance
Hello, I've got my driving test in a week and my dad has said he'll take me out just for last minute practise, however, i can't seem to find any insurers that will insure me for a period of 7 days. The only short-term insurer i could find was Collingwood, however, you have to take out for a minimum of 28 days which is…
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Questions on house insurance
Hi, I am comparing quotes for home insurance cover. I have two questions: a) we had our furniture stored for six months in one of these places that offer storage. It got flooded due to their burst pipe and we had to claim on the insurance we bought through the storage company. The amount settled was 500 quid. At the time…
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LV - any good for car insurance?
Just looking to renew my car insurance and LV are consistently coming up as the cheapest for me (£190 cheaper than my renewal quote with Direct Line!). Does anyone have any experience of using LV for car insurance, especially when making a claim? Thanks.