Many parties get involved when you make an insurance claim. There’s you and the other party, there are third parties, your insurers, the other party’s insurers, and possibly a repairing garage and medical specialists. One or both insurers may appointment a claims management company and they, or the insurers, may appoint lawyers. Or you may seek legal representation yourself. Considering the number of parties involved, it doesn’t sound like much fun!
Tag: Insurance
This Is Money: Drivers Left Without Cover
Two thousand motorists could be driving illegally after a major insurer failed to renew their policies despite telling them it would, the BBC has discovered
This Is Money: John Lewis Plots Move Into Finance
Department store giant John Lewis is poised to announce plans to relaunch its website as it moves into banking and insurance
Scotsman: FSA Alerts Motorists Over Car Insurance Scam
CITY watchdog the Financial Services Authority issued an urgent warning this week to motorists who may have bought car insurance from a company called Double Easy Brokers Ltd (which traded as Eeasybrokers) to arrange alternative cover immediately.
Warning For Drivers Insured With CIS
The BBC reports that up to 2000 drivers insured with Co-operative Insurance (CIS) may be technically uninsured, due to a problem with some renewals. CIS says it will pay any claims that are made, but confirmed that technically the drivers are breaking the law by driving without valid insurance. If you’re insured to drive through […]
This Is Money: Drivers Warned On Scam Firm’s Dud Cover
The FSA is warning customers of Eeasybrokers, an unauthorised car insurance broker, that they could be breaking the law by driving with invalid cover
Family Finance: ME Sufferers €“ Still Battling Insurance Ignorance
Author: Catriona Singfield
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as ME and stigmatised as ‘Yuppie flu’ in the 80s, has now been recognised as a proper, and serious, life-damaging illness. Unfortunately for sufferers, some major insurance companies are behind the times, as Miss A found out.
Diagnosed eight years ago, Miss A suffers from a virulent form of […]
Motley Fool: The Three Key Pension Questions
I’d like to start this article on a positive note and Scottish Widows has given me just the opening. According to the BBC, a Scottish Widows survey of nearly 6,000 showed that, on average, people think they need £30,000 a year to live comfortably in retirement.
Motley Fool: This Massive Rip-off Needs Killing Off!
Since I first started writing for The Motley Fool in January 2003, I’ve criticised rip-off payment protection insurance (PPI) over five hundred times. (Payment protection insurance meets the repayments on a credit card, loan or mortgage if you are unable to work due to accident, sickness or unemployment, and pays off your debt if you die.)
Scotsman: Insure Your House Exchange Takes Place
THE problem home buyers face in finding the cash needed at exchange to secure a property could become a thing of the past, according to Exchange Insurance Company with has launched its Exchange Bond in the UK.