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Examples of your insurance policies?
Just wondering if there is anyone out there (or somewhere on the forum) who'd be willing to share what policies they have? I know it's all down to the individual, but my DH has said it's all up to me now and I have to sort out all the policies ensuring I get the best deals available. Just want too see what others consider…
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Shop around and haggle
I had an accident last November wrote off a ford mondeo and even though i have a protected no claims bonus my renewal quote was more than double than last year, they wanted over £400 I shopped around and got a quote for £146 I checked with confused.com and found cover for £126 I called the £146 one again and told them…
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motorcyle insurance renewal - extra charges....
My brother Bert, has his motorcycle insurance renewal. He is nearly 46, and been lucky enough never to have had an accident so far. He arranged his motorcycle insurance through a BROKER as he was told that these search for you, to get the cheapest one. He has had fully comp insurance all of the time. His renewal arrived…
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Roof tiles Insurance claim Ignorance
Recently some of our tiles came off our roof in storms. I phoned around for someone to repair it not realising that I could claim for this under our insurance. Having never made a claim ever before I called the insurers to ask what to do next, who then asked me the exact date that it happened. Under pressure I said a date…
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Bike vs Car insurance
I have never understood why bike insurance is so cheap. To insure my wife's 1600cc family car in my name would cost me twice what it costs me to insure an 1150cc motorcycle capable of 0-60mph in less than 4 seconds. At the weekend I won an eBay auction for another bike (with retrospect a great lesson in not bidding on eBay…
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Help with Critical Illness Cover
My wife and I already both have individual life cover linked with our mortgage. we do not have any critical illness cover and with 2 young children are a little concerned.Can anyone suggest where we can start with looking for critiacl illness cover. Tesco seem to have reasonable Life/Mortgage cover with critical illness…
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Which was the cheap dental insurance for about £6 per month?
I know I saw it recently on MSE, and now I've got time to have a proper look I can't seem to find it anyway - just spent about half an hour searching and no joy. I *thought* it was also mentioned in a tips email not long ago, but have looked at the archive and can't see it there either so perhaps I dreamt it :rolleyes: If…
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Buildings/Contents Insurance
Hi. Hope someone can help. I need some temporary Buildings/Contents Insurance until I move house at the end/beginning of this/next month. i wont go into too much detail becuase its too complicated to type up. does anyone know of an insurance company that does a month by month policy? thanks.
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Urgent Insurance Help!!!
Dear all, I am in the deepest trouble, I have managed to lose my wedding ring!!!:mad: Ive just been told I'm not covered by my house insurance, is there any insurance policy on which I may be covered, car/travel??? I dont know where to start.............:confused: Is there anyone out there that knows what insurance may…
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Trekking travel insurance help
I'm going trekking in Japan in the next few weeks and am looking for an annual insurance policy for myself and my partner. Its a condition of our booking that we are covered for 'medical and accident risks, including helicopter rescue repatriation costs, with a min insured amount of £5m'. We're also likely to go skiing in…
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Insurance for imported car
Hi all, Trying to help out a friend in need. Cross-posting this to the motoring board too in hope of a quick response as I might not have net access later in the day. My friend has had her car insured with (I think) Halifax for about 3 years since she bought it -- however they're now refusing to renew the insurance becausr…
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Charged for changing address for car insurance!
I have recently moved into a new property about 2 weeks ago and I'm just going through notifying everyone of my change of address. I rang up my car insurance company this morning to do this and was told at the end of the conversation that I will be charged £84 for this as they've had to carry out a risk assessment etc on…
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want to get cheaper insurance!
Hi everyone, would it be possible for me to ring my current accident sickness and unemployment cover company up, say i have found a cheaper quote and ask for them to knock my current premium down or else i will switch? any advice appreciated best wishes Luke:beer:
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Equestrian Insurance
We need to insure our Shire Mare and Foal. We want to insure just for personal accident and public liability & put money aside for vets fees & get interest on it :D (Shires aren't prone to diseases like some other breeds). I've searched through tinternet & the cheapest for us seem to be Stoneways or Equestrian Direct, (not…
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Private Health Care
can anyone help me i am thinking about getting family healthcare for my wife and 2 children as over the last 1 1/2 years my family has been troubled with health problems and i am not willing to put up with the NHS anymore can anyone tell me the benefits of private healthcare and if they recommend or not recommend a…
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do i have 3 or 4 bedrooms?
i need to find new house/contents insurance. our house has 3 real bedrooms and up til now we have been using a 'tv' room as a 4th bedroom so have insured our house as a 4 bed house. Now the kids have flown the nest we have 2 bedrooms in use and a 3rd sitting empty and have converted the other back into an office. Do we…
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housing/building insurance
We've had our buildings & contents insurance renewal quote. Quote looks fine but we are worried about the amount of cover we have got for our contents and for a rebuild value if our house was raised to the ground. Is there any benchmark figures that people could suggest for cover? e.g. For rebuilt cover it should be value…
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Critical illness insurance
Hello,i hope someone can answer this question.Most critical illness policies do not cover for pre-existing conditions.What if you were diagnosed with something that was pre-existing but you were unaware of at the start of cover?Thanks
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Cheaper contents and building insurance
Hi everyone, we have contents and building insurance with Direct Line,they have just sent us our renewal schedule,the premium is £281.40,so I decided to shop around.Barclays came up with £253.10,I decided to go online to Direct Line and did a quote online and the premium was £183.75 so I phoned them up and explained I had…
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Help getting insured please
Hi all, I have recently started my own handyman business and at present do not have any kind of insurance including life and public liability. Also i play rugby and would like to be covered for loss of earnings if i was to be injured. I really need to get all this sorted as i am about to become a dad so any advice would be…
