Insurance companies Archive

  • Discover If Your Business Risks Are Properly Covered

    Discover If Your Business Risks Are Properly Covered

    Today we take a look at the new Business Insurance Risks Decision Tree from insurer Hiscox. This useful flowchart leads you through the minefield of insurance risks that your business might face and the appropriate covers for protection. Making Business Insurance Decisions Easy for Business...

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  • No Home Insurance Corporations Are Precisely Alike

    No Home Insurance Corporations Are Precisely Alike

    Home insurance firms are giving some incredibly useful service by means of providing coverage and protection towards other types of difficulties together with such that are manmade and even such which occur naturally. As long as the premiums have been paid up, the insurance company...

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  • UK Insurance Regulation Is Changing The Face Of The Market

    UK Insurance Regulation Is Changing The Face Of The Market

    In 2005, two years before the credit crunch, the British government imposed far reaching financial and structural controls over the UK Insurance Market by bringing the sale of General Insurance into the controlling hands of the Financial Services Authority, the FSA. Legal regulation and authorisation...

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  • How Insurance Companies Use Your Credit Rating To Decide Your Premiums

    How Insurance Companies Use Your Credit Rating To Decide Your Premiums

    UK Insurance Companies have been using credit scoring to determine policy acceptance, flag potential claims risks and load premiums for over ten years now. What this means for the consumer is that if you do not fall into the credit/lifestyle brackets determined by the credit...

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  • Insurance Companies are Going Cheap! – Recession Latest!

    Insurance Companies are Going Cheap! – Recession Latest!

    The recession has hit the insurance industry particularly hard and no sector has to date escaped. Aggregation has been a prominent feature of the market for a long time. Before the recession Insurance Brokers were the main target with the number of independent providers reduced...

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  • Insurance Companies buy more UK Government Debt

    Insurance Companies buy more UK Government Debt

    The Bank of England has just announced that the latest efforts at so called Quantitative Easing involves the injection of another £25 billion of made up money in the circular flow of money system, which means that since the recession Britain has generated £200 billion...

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  • Selling Your Insurance Broker Business? There’s never been a better time to sell!

    Selling Your Insurance Broker Business? There’s never been a better time to sell!

    Selling Your Insurance Business?Despite the recession there’s never been a better time for selling your insurance business with demand and consequently prices high. Agglomeration of books of business and size are still driving factors when it comes to negotiating commission levels with the big Insurance...

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  • Should Obscene Domains be Banned by Nominet?

    Should Obscene Domains be Banned by Nominet?

    At Insuranceblog we own many insurance domains bought through the UK registrar and trust Nominet. We found this press release today from a UK Income Protection Insurance Company who have been having trouble registering their company domain with Nominet, and whilst trying to do so...

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  • Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    Norwich Union is Dead! Arriva Aviva!

    The grand old lady from carrot crunching country just couldn’t cut the mustard with the bosses of the Iberian sounding Aviva and will officially be given the fatal injection at midnight tonight. As an ex-employee of GA bonus (New Zealand Insurance) do I care? At...

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  • Google Arrested – We Hope It Had Valid Car Insurance!

    Google Arrested – We Hope It Had Valid Car Insurance!

    Google Visual Information is Arresting! Insurance Companies must be rubbing their hands in glee at the introduction of Google Maps Streetview. The 360 degree high definition view of your house from outside the front door, is a valuable tool for both loss adjusters and claims...

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  • Insurance Cyber Network up for Sale

    Insurance Cyber Network up for Sale

    Here at Insurance Blog we love to speculate and predict outcomes, usually based on probability, for our own personal chest beating and so we can turn around after the event and say ‘told you so!’ After all isn’t that how Insurance operates!But we’re not averse...

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