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Instant policy life insurance

chihuahuabear Posts: 48 Forumite

27 July 2010 at 11:04AM in Insurance & life assurance

Hi folks,

I'm looking to get a new life insurance policy and have been hitting the comparison circuit.

What I don't get is why you have to wait hours / days to hear back from your provider even though the comparison companies offer 'a quote in seconds'.

The best of a bad bunch seemed to be Quotebofin

MoneySupermarket and Tesco took a whopping 3 DAYS to get back to me!

Just as well I didn't croak it :rotfl:

Anway, does anyone know where I can buy a policy there and then online - a bit like how travel insurance works?

Any advice is appreicated,

Cheers

:j:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::j

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