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Should I go for Long Term Care Health Insurance Coverage?
I am in my twenties. Would it be advisable for me to go for Long Term Health Insurance Coverage?
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Direct Line
I have had both my house and car insurance with Direct Line for over 5 yrs. I recently re-newed my car insurance and had it was a nightmare. After getting over the stress of that, my house insurance was due. I currently pay £16 a month and when the letter arrived, I was "thanked" for insuring with them for the past 5 yrs!!…
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Insure
I have had a cheap quote from them and can get £75 cashback. The only thing is they have window locks and door locks under the same box to tick so I have to say we don't have locks as the windows have no keys to the locks but the doors are fine and have the rated locks required. Most other websites have windows and door…
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No loyalty for renewing with Co-op
I bought my car insurance online through the Co-op last year, paying £158. I have just received the renwal notice quoting £196. Shocked by the 24% increase, I thought I would check that the online was similar. I thought it might be a bit less, but it came out at £167! I phoned Co-op 0845 renewal number to see if there had…
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Yorkshire Building Society MPPI
Hi Grateful for any advice regarding the recent changes to Yorkshire Building Society Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance. I received a letter from YBS last month informing of them switching insurance providers to Aviva. I'm not 100% sure on what are the vital changes and would like some feedback from the forum on…
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Is there any point in still paying this policy?
I got a £30,000 20yr mortgage with the Halifax 16 yrs ago and got life assurance policy with it, I've been steadily overpaying the mortgage recently and now have less than £2600 left on it to pay. The life assurance policy costs just over £7 a month, but is it actually worth keeping the policy running or should I just…
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Laptop uneconomical repair - returning damaged one?
Hi I recently claimed accidental damage repair of a laptop I have,and have been told it is un-economical to repair. I have been advised i can purchase another from Comet up to a certain value to replace it. The thing is, what happens to the damaged one and can I buy it back from the insurers/repairers? It still works and…
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Whole Life Insurance Policies
Both myself and husband have policies but they only cover us up to a certain age, Like when we hit our mid 60's, there dont seem to be many of whole life policies for people of our age at the moment which we are in our 40's, I originally went and saw a financial adviser about this and he set me up on one, with legal and…
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Car Insurance - Quinn ripping me off for changing address?
Hi All, I'm 24 years old and have been driving since May 2009. My car insurance is with Quinn Direct and I have recently moved home so I called them to update my address. I was told that to change my address I would need to pay an additional premium of £1,321.44! I'm currently only paying £600 per year and the car (2005…
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Life Insurance with a saving plan attached
Hi Can anyone tell me what is the best way to go I wold like a savings plan with a life insuarance in it so that after a number of years say 10 or something I would get a decent return any ideas
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Churchill - choice of repair location?
Do Churchill deal solely with whoever they choose or do I have a choice of where I take my car to get repaired? Personally, I would prefer to deal with my local Toyota dealer rather than a third party repair place, but I've no idea if they would allow this or just go for what may be the cheapest option.
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Car Insurance
I am looking at several car insurance quotes online, I need to get cover in place online today, does anyone know of any insurers who do not charge a deposit to pay monthly as I really can't afford this right now???? I would much rather set up a DD to come out when I get paid Thanks
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MSE News: Protection for insurance buyers unveiled
This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story: "It aims to ensure people buying general insurance, such as home and motor cover, online are able to identify the best policy for them ..." Read the full story: Protection for insurance buyers unveiled
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No one will insure me because of underpinning!!?
Hi, I just tried to get some home insurance quotes because my insurance is running out soon, however my property (mid-terraced) was underpinned about 5 years ago due to some subsidence/ground movement. However when I entered this into the form the search results came up saying no one will insure me due to this ground…
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Contents insurance - locks on the house
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice? My contents insurance is due for renewal. I went onto a price comparison site and started filling out in the form. It asked me about the locks on my doors. Well, I don't know what type of locks they are. The lock on the front door is one that can be put in the latch but…
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Curry's TV Insurance
18 months ago my mother bought a Kodak portabe LCD TV with built in freeview from Currys together with a 3 year warranty. When the switchover took place in September in our area, she now found that it took between 10 and 15 mins for the TV to connect with any channels and when it does, it does not show as many as she had…
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Home insurance company failed to take DD payment 8 months ago
I've just received a letter from Aviva, saying "earlier this year we experienced some technical problems, which led to us failing to collect your Direct Debit payment for your home insurance for £xxx.xx. Please accept our apologies for our mistake and let me assure you that your cover remains unaffected. To ensure your…
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Contents insurance terminology.
I am confused by my contents insurance. I have taken extended contents cover for individual items - but reading thorugh the policy documents it talks about 'accidental loss' and 'deliberate loss' - i can't find any explanation as to what either of these terms means. Does any one know?
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Dads Life Insurance cover is not enough
I need some advice. My dad never bothered with life insurance when he was younger, he was never any good with money or keeping up payments or nothing like that, he was always in debt. So I took up the Sun Life over 50's Plan for Dad which I started up about 2002 I think, I have been paying £12PM and he is only covered for…
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car insurance , probable points
I took out car insurance last november 08(virgin) , on my renault clio and had a year go by problem free, when i rang my insurers in september 09 to ask about my renewal ,they mentioned about automatic renewal and that the price would be the same or better. To save trawling the net come renewal time i stated to the person…
