Tag Archives: Association Of British Insurers
Car Insurance. It’s Getting Increasingly Expensive When You’re Elderly.
There were 550 serious accidents last year where the driver was over aged 70 and where driver was either killed or badly hurt, reports the Institute of Advanced Motoring . That statistic represents 8% of the national total of 7,035 similar accidents. That means that the over 70’s’s have more, very serious accidents per mile [...]
Home Insurance. Flood Alert
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors warns that if you can’t get insurance for your house, you’re in big trouble. Mortgage lenders won’t lend on houses that are uninsurable and as a result its value could fall by up to 80%.
It’s a high flood risk that’s most likely to make your house uninsurable. According to [...]
Life Insurance And Critical Illness Insurance. Cancer Tests To Increase
Life Insurance And Critical Illness Insurance. Cancer Tests To Increase Women’s Premiums
Ladies, if your mother or any other female blood-line relatives have a history of breast or ovarian cancer then from next year onwards, you could face higher insurance premiums. You could even be refused cover altogether.
When these women apply for life and critical [...]
How To Pay Less On Home And Contents Insurance
Buildings Insurance went up again last year, costing homeowners another 1% a year, taking the average to just over 205 for a year’s insurance. Contents insurance also went up, this time by 2% – now it costs the average homeowner 151 a year. However, some lenders are hiking prices even higher than that Norwich [...]
Proposed Changes Could Result In Lower Car Insurance Premiums
At the moment, the legal system in Britain forces all personal injury claims to go through the courts and be judged on an individual basis. Many of these claims crawl through the courts at a leisurely pace, the result being expensive court costs. Even worse, for every 051 that is paid out in compensation, it [...]