Appears a combination of cheap holidays and flights together with some of the best skiing conditions for years has meant a bumper 2008 ski season. It is estimated over 3 million Brits will hit the ski slopes this winter. Insure and Go one of the
After much deliberation and consultation the government has requested that the Financial Services Authority (FSA), the UK’s financial watchdog regulate all forms of travel insurance. Currently travel insurance is not regulated when it is sold by a person who is also arranging the travel, for example travel agents, it is also not regulated when sold in connection with travel arrangements (eg a holiday or a flight). This two tier situation of the regulation and the non regulation of travel insurance depending on where and how a customer buys the insurance has been under the spotlight for some time from both the media and consumer groups as it can cause misunderstandings and confusion for people purchasing travel insurance
The UK government has recently been heading a campaign to make Britain a healthier nation.
Addressing general health and preventative medicine, the Prime Minister has promised every adult in the UK will receive a free health MOT. Screening for conditions such as heart disease and diabetes will be among the tests and will be phased in over the next few years.
Screening for vascular disease, which is the primary cause of heart failure and strokes affecting 6.2 million people and bringing about the death of 200,000 of those per year, will begin in the over 60’s later this year. This effectively brings the benefits of private health care into the public domain.
I’m organising an uprising of the bunny population. We are sick of our life insurance premiums going through the roof!
Humans have no respect for us. The Easter bunny is a sign of the rising fertility of the earth, you’d think they would be more grateful. Modern day Greeks know the importance of our life giving properties which is why they still colour all their Easter eggs red in recognition to the renewal of life in the springtime.
The word Easter comes from an ancient pagan goddess of the spring named Eostre. According to folklore, she saved a bird from certain death after its wings had frozen by turning it into a rabbit. Once a rabbit, it still had its bird like ability to lay eggs, hence Easter eggs.
The flights are booked, the life insurance scrutinized to make sure critical illness is covered and the hotel booked.
We’re on a long haul flight to New Zealand and have remembered to implement all the procedures to avoid thrombosis. Walking around is not easy in economy class – it’s more of a sideways step/shuffle but it gets the blood flowing.
Our main goal is to get in some good scuba diving around the North Island. We’ve taken our own BCD’s (Buoyancy Control Devices), wet suits, regulators, fins and masks. All we need to do is hire the air tanks when we get there.
It’s that time of year again and I need to renew my car insurance. I hate this bit. It’s always so complicated!
I’ve been trying for reindeer’s years to get my premiums down but it just goes in the other direction. I’m told it’s because of all the factors influencing car insurance that are pushing up my premiums but you’d think with my history, it would be an advantage.
For a start, I don’t drive a conventional car – I fly a sleigh. Technically not a car but with the absence of wings, it’s not a plane either. Unique, they say, equals expensive. I don’t think that’s fair as they have nothing to compare it to but that is the rule.
The thought of insuring a child’s life is not something many people wish to entertain.
When it comes to life insurance parents deal with themselves, particularly in advancing years but also especially when they have begin to have their own children.
The parents consider the need to protect their child against financial difficulties should anything happen to them. There are funeral expenses, debts to pay up, homes to secure, education to continue and a lifestyle to fund.
Parents may even plan ahead for the unpredictability of contracting a long term illness to protect the family concerns and ease the burden on their children.