Friday, October 24, 2008

Full Insurance Online Guide

By Jizmack Baraceros

Insurance refers to a contract wherein a person gets financial reimbursement from an insurance company in case of losses. Insurance comes in many types such as casualty insurance, disability insurance, health insurance, life insurance, property insurance, liability insurance, credit insurance, car insurance, financial loss insurance, kidnap and ransom insurance, and purchase insurance. Believe it or not, there is even pet insurance.

Getting financial reimbursement is not that simple. Since nothing is free in this world, you have to pay a premium in order to be insured. The premium is highly based on the risk of loss. Aside from the premium, there are other factors affecting insurance. It is best if you take time understanding insurance, insurance policies, and everything in between before actually getting one.

Car insurance, to put it simply, serves as protection against losses in cases of accidents. For example, you hit another car while driving and both cars were damaged. Your car insurance will help you foot the bill. Usually, companies selling cars include car insurance in their sales. While packaged deals are great, it will not hurt you to look around.

Developed medical care, improved healthcare, enhanced diagnostic procedures... These may give you hope that life insurance is not exactly as important as advertised. However, the day when you start thinking like this is the day you are wrong. Life insurance serves a number of purposes. For one, it is a good income replacement. Another, it can be used for paying your children's college education. Also, life insurance can be a tool in wealth preservation.

Health is wealth. You have heard of this before and chances are you will still be hearing it years later. Health is of utmost importance; you should not take any chances with it. This is where heath insurance comes in. Health insurance may be the best way to get preventive car, nursing care, and other medical attention in cases of accidents and illnesses.


The Taboo Subject of Life Insurance

By David John Martin

Life insurance is a tough subject to think about. It only takes a coastal walk along a sheer cliff-top, or a near miss on the drive home from work to realize that it probably is something one should consider sooner rather than later, especially in regards to the fact that the younger and healthier you are, the cheaper your premiums will be. The real problem with life insurance is, well, it's never fun.

Car insurance is equally dull. But because it is the law to be insured, the majority of drivers get on with it and make sure their policy is up to date. That said, unlike the history of life insurance, the history of car insurance is sprinkled with many humorous stories of stupid people claiming for stupid things. Some claims forms have featured such absurdities as: 'I had been driving for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident.' And: 'On approach to the traffic lights the car in front suddenly broke.' And my personal favourite: 'The accident occurred when I was attempting to bring my car out of a skid by steering it into the other vehicle.'

In terms of humorous home insurance claims, there is the famous story (sadly later proved to be fiction) of the man who insured 24 particularly expensive cigars, smoked them, and then attempted to claim his insurance because they had been destroyed by fire. He succeeded in court, but once he'd cashed his cheque, the insurance company sued him for arson.

Back to reality though, and the claim of Philip Clough. After shoving some washing into his machine before going away for the weekend, he returned to find the machine still spinning on a boil wash. The insurance company subsequently denied payment because they believed their policy didn't cover steam damage. Luckily for Clough though, the courts saw things differently on grounds that steam is H2O, just as water is.

Although ironic, it seems to me that if the general public were to learn to laugh about life insurance, then maybe people would be able to think about it more seriously. Quite frankly, who wants to contemplate what's going to happen after you've gone? It is almost a taboo subject for some people, unless it comes up during conversations about fraud or disease, it seems barely interesting at all and thus less at the forefront of our collective imagination. But the really funny thing is that it is the only policy that is pretty much certain to be paid out.


I recommend visiting the Post Office® for life insurance quote and to buy a simple, cost effective term life insurance policy, offering you a way to pay off your mortgage or leave your family a cash sum when you die.

Holiday Insurance For a Risk Free Fun-Filled Holiday

By Charle Lawrence

Getting holiday insurance has become quite important for the tourists nowadays. Disaster may fall to anyone at anytime. You may have gone out to take a break from your hectic life schedule and have fun but that too may turn to be sad for you. So, it is better to not to take any risk and be prepared and take precautions before anything bad or any physical injury may happen to you.

Several things may happen to you while you journey which are like falling sick, meeting accidents on your way, loss or theft of luggage or cancellation of flights or trains. So, there is nothing bad in being prepared through the help of such insurance policies. These are even being provided by the travel agents too and therefore, you will not have to take much pain while arranging for one. While buying their holiday package you will get to insure that whole trip. Other than this, such insurance policies are available in the online services too. You can shop around for the best deal by going through the quotes offered by the online agencies.

A variety of insurance plans are available for the holiday fun freaks. Travel insurance, discounted annual cover, ski or snowboarding holiday insurance plans and single trip insurance policies are certain available insurance plans. Some of these plans cover only a special event while some policies cover the entire holiday period. Based on the duration and the reason for which the particular insurance policy is being undertaken the prices of these differ.

When you are going to a place which is totally new for you and is opposite to the climate where you reside then it is necessary for you to have the holiday insurance. Under such circumstances the insurance should not cover a few days or special events, in fact the whole holiday duration should be insured. This will make the holiday tour quite tension free, enjoyable and memorable for your whole family.


Charle Lawrence is associated with insuranceb. He holds a Master's in finance from Cambridge University. To know more about holiday insurance, quote holiday insurance, travel insurance, uk holiday insurance please visit insuranceb.co.uk/

 

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