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Gap year travel insurance - recommendations?
Does anyone have any recommendations for gap year travel insurance for a 18-35 year old going to Asia for 12 months? Any companies to look at, or avoid? Any advice much appreciated. Sooler
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Goods in Transit insurance Bargain?
Good morning all, I'm looking for a good deal on some goods in transit insurance for cover between £15 000 and £20 000, does anybody know any good reputable companies? We got a whole package before (GIT, PL and vehicle), bur once we looked at the breakdown of the policy' we realised we had had the wool pulled over our eyes…
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Advice please
We are insured with Lloyds TSB and were burgeled recently with all my wifes jewellery stolen. We made a claim & was asked to submit a claim to GAB Robins who are their loss adjusters. We were asked to list & describe all the jewellery stolen along with pree loss evidence. My wife provided as teh descriptions & the…
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life assurance, downloading forms.
I want to take out life assurance for myself and my wife, and have had reasonable quotes from cavendish from two companys for seperate policys. However to download the forms to fill in would take about sixty four sheets of paper to print off and post back to cavendish, does this seem right to have to do this or have i…
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Home Contents Insurance - Alarm and Safe
We are moving into a new rented property next week and I am trying to arrange contents cover this weekend. One thing I have noticed though is that no company seems to care that the property has an alarm (as it's not a NACOSS-approved one - it's simply one the builders put in), nor does the fact I have a…
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One year NCD makes me to pay more for my car insurance! Why??
I just get a quote from directline, which surprises me with the following results: 420 pounds with 0 year NCD for third party fire and theft cover. 452.55 pounds with 1 year NCD for third party fire and theft cover. I am 27 years old, male student, have had my full driving license for 3 years. The car is a Hyundai Lantra…
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Disabled husband would be homeless if.......
Hi everyone. Here's my problem. Not sure whether to post this in insurance or benefits. I got married last year at the age of 49, having always assumed I would never get married. My husband is disabled and genuinely not able to work. Of course, I'd never bothered with much insurance, as there was only me to think about. I…
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Car Insurance No Claims Confusion, Please Help
Hi This is my first post on here but I felt it necessary to ask about this is it's driving me nuts. As of this time last year I had earned according to Tesco renewal document 6 years of no claims discount. I then decided to move to More Than because it was cheaper ! 3 weeks after the purchase of a brand new car in May this…
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Travel Insurance credit card cover ?
Just looking at booking some annual travel insurance and came accross an anomaly. In the "Key Exclusions" it specifies "no cover for loss of credit card". I checked a few other policies and none mention credit cards at all, i.e covered/not covered. Does anyone konw if travel insurance should cover credit cards or is this…
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Motor insurance for Europe
Hello everyone Am looking for car insurance that will cover me in Europe (Belgium) for longer periods - the best I've found so far is 2 months each stretch befre I have to return to the UK- does anyone know of any insurance that will cover me for longer and not necessarily more expensively? Thank you Superufus
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Guardian Financial Services
In 1991 my parents opened a Double Benefit policy on my behalf with GFS.It cost £15 a month.Last year it accrued a bonus of £40.94.I can make much better use of £180 a year.Beer at least.Has anyone ever had,or even succesfully got out of one of these?
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Switching insurers
Hi All By looking at the tips on this site, I've realised I can save on my monthly outgoings by changing the companies I use for life/mortgage protection insurance. However, my dilemma is that the insurance recommended by Martin has a period of several months after signing up before it would cover me. I'm worried about…
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What type of insurance?
As Martin has said,there is no such thing as a silly question,but here goes! My son and his girlfriend are in the process of buying their first house together,but apart for buildings and contents cover,what type of insurance do they need? I have reducing mortgage cover for myself and my wife,which is very cheap,but does…
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Insurance for Spanish home?
We are buying a small house in rural Spain initially for holidays but ultimately for retirement. We need to insure building and contents. Could we have recommendations for insurers please? Brian.
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Claiming from Tescos When Overpriced
I took up an offer from Tescos life insurance. We were sold this instore the other week. We took the incentive of some free clubcard points. On the leaflet that we were given they offered 1000 extra points if you could beet their prices. Our policys with Tescos are now in place. Ive been looking home insurance tonight and…
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Why do UK Insurers make putting non-EU overseas drivers on your policy so difficult?
We have exchanged our home and car with overseas couples on two occasions. Both were non-EU couples (Canada and Australia) and it was really difficult getting car insurance for them. EU would have been a doddle and they drive on the "wrong" side of the road! Both the Canadian and Australian insurance companies were very…
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Wedding insurance advice needed
We're getting married next year. Like a good moneysaver I've already bought my dress in the sale. Because it was a sale item, I had to take it with me and it is sitting in the wardrobe at home. I need to take it back to the shop in February for them to make some minor alterations, and then it will have to be dry cleaned…
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Car insurance for a day?
I've just bought a car from eBay (still can't get over it!) I need to pick it up from many many miles away and need insurance until I sort the full yearly insurance. Does anyone know a company that takes insurnace for just a day or so? I'm sure seeing a thread on here before but can't find it nor google. Thank you.
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Special Terms Been Imposed
Hi My hubby and I have just aplpied for some life cover. Around the 50000 each I believe. HE IS 29 Mines come back fine but my hubbys had specail terms put on his saying that it wont cover him for the house moving option Can anyone tell me why it is? Now when asked if any compnays ever imposed specail terms were going to…
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Contents - Doggy Discount??
:confused: Does anyone have any experience of contents insurance which takes into account individual circumstances ie: Big German Shepherd who will definitely not let someone burgle the house! Low value of contents, but need to add mobile phone to insurance (only seem to be able to include this with a whole range of…
