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Some Basic Car Insurance Questions FOllowing A Claim
I posted a topic a little while back after my wife crashed my car but now the claim has been settled and I need some more information. The insurance company has paid out for our written-off car. We have accepted fault. The insurance policy was in my name with 1 years NCB and my wife was a named driver. So here are my…
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Second car insurance - advice needed quick!
Having found a second car, I thought insuring it would be a doddle. No its not. My insurance for our other car (Citroen Picasso) is with Sheilas Wheels, satisfied with it, no probs. Just had to buy a larger people carrier for school run and tried to insure it thru same. Not possible 1. they dont do multi car policies 2. I…
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Travel Insurance and Swine flu
Interesting 'difference of views' on Moneybox on R4 on Saturday: ABTA guy - most insurance policies will not cover you for cancellation as a result of this Insurance guy (Association of British Insurers???) - most insurance policies will cover you Moral - it pays to check. Don't believe glib assertions.
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Insurance with a conviction
I am enquiring on behlf of a friend who has a conviction of gbh which he spent 3 months in prison for and that was around 4 years ago he currently lives with his partner and they dont have insurance on the property. is there anywhere he could get insurance to covre his possessions and if so would it be worth him getting a…
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Home Insurance (Mobile Phone Insurance)
Hi all, Hoping to get a little advice on mobile phone insurance as my contract is coming up for renewel and I'm looking to cut costs a little. Currently I'm paying approx £16 a month for two mobile phones on contract in my household. Since the contracts are almost up I thought I'd do a quick check on this forum to see what…
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Life insurance policy for over 50's
Hi there, Can someone please advise what the best way is to finding life assurance for someone who is in their early 50's and 60's? Apart from Cavendish Online, is there any other company/site that one should look at before taking policy for these age groups? Thanks, B.
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Travel Insurance for 13 year old.
Hi My 13 year old son is going on holidayto Gran Canaria with his best friend and his family in August for 2 weeks. I have been trying to get insurance quotes for him, but so far, the 2 or 3 I have tried flash up saying that there must be at least 1 adult over the age of 18 included in the quote. The family he is going…
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Stolen & Recovered Vehicle Value
What links? I have carefully composed a new thread and am being told as a new user I cannot post with links. I have not put any links on my text. Can somone help?
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Birmingham Midshires Home Insurance renewal
Does anybody else have a home insurance policy with BM? I have just been on their website and from what I can see they don't offer this service any more. They gave me a contents policy for £78 last year with accidental damage cover. It was a good price and I think I'll be hard pushed to find a comparative deal next month…
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covermytravels.co.uk
I have an annual travel policy with the above company which expires on 23rd May and they have sent me a renewal letter inviting me to visit their website to get a quote and renew.However, when I went to the site, there is a message saying that Payplan Financial Services are no longer offering travel insurance through…
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Dormer bungalow insurance
We recently had a loft conversion and I am in the process of getting home insurance quotes as it is renewal time. Very few companies list "dormer" bungalow as an option so i am having to read through all the policy documents to see what they do and don't cover, for example, Swinton states that not more than 30% of the roof…
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Will my contents insurance be void
I was recently burgled totalling about 10K. I had a claim on my buy to let property in 2002 for 1K but in 2005 did not think I needed ti disclose to insurance as it was not residential. I am still with them in 2009 but mentioned to them I did not disclose this to them in 2005 as I didnt think it was relevant two difference…
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Asda Contents Insurance
Hi, Has anybody been able to recently get an internet contents quote from Asda? I was planning to purchase from them, but once I've entered my details on the first page and click 'Search' to resolve my postcode then it just comes up and says 'An error has occured' with not a lot of other information. I've tried a different…
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Bank refusing ro release interest in Endowment Policy
I'm have trouble with Lloyds, my partner died in January, at the time his account was overdrawn, several years ago Lloyds took our endowment policy as security against the overdraft, howedver I have since found out that there was an insurance in place, arranged through and paid to Lloyds, which would clear the overdraft in…
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Life Insurance/Assurance
Just had some very bad news and it started me thinking about needing life insurance/level term assurance. I want to make sure that if anything happened any debts would be cleared and more importantly that OH would have money left to sort a funeral and help him out for some time so that he wouldn't have money as an extra…
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Life assurance - necessity or luxury?
Hi all, OH and myself have been having a major finance overhall - to cut a looooong story short we have CC debt of 35k+, and are moving everything/cutting out any extras etc to get it under control. Our CC snowball calculator says dfd in July 2018, but I want to do it quicker. So...We have a mortgage and life assurance +…
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Home Contents needing proof of purchase
I was reading a thread on this forum a few days ago now (can't find it now). Someone had been burgled and their Home Insurance company were asking for receipts / proof of purchase for all items stolen even relatively "inexpensive" items (I mean not massively high in value) like an X-Box games console (what, we looking at…
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Septic tank failure
The septic tank which serves about 10 households is in need of repair or replacement. Does anyone know whether insurance might pay up?
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Home Insurance cashback - which ones pay?
Hi all, I've joined topcashback and am now considering the higher home insurance quotes I've received because with the cashback they can work out cheaper... I was wondering how others here have done with regards to getting cashback on home insurance? One of my better quotes is with Asda and their cashback is good but the…
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Been claiming for over a year on loan insurance
I have been claiming on my loan payment protection insurance for over a year and suddenly now i have had medical assessment done by the DWP and am deemed unfit for work the following has happened:- 1. On thursday i got a phone call saying " nothing to worry about we need to clarify a few points" and i was asked questions…
