Latest News in Car Insurance – Nov 23, 2007
November 23, 2007 by Be Safe Insure
Filed under Trends
Insurance – Car insurance
This is Money – If you drive you have to have insurance. That’s the law. But how much you pay depends not only on your driving history and a bunch of other spurious statistics – but also where you live. Now, for the first time you can see if you are paying over the …
Don’t be a dummy over car insurance
Daily Telegraph – Car insurers are playing hardball when it comes to settling claims, a trend that has triggered a 70 per cent rise in complaints by motorists to the Financial Ombudsman Service over the past six months alone. The ombudsman is expecting another surge …
Banking, insurance and mortgages: the EU readies its revamp
International Herald Tribune – BRUSSELS : Making it easier to switch bank accounts, giving everyone a right to basic banking services and providing for more competition in car insurance form just part of plans proposed Tuesday to update the European Union’s internal market. The …
Insurers Shift Cost Burdens to Homeowners
New York Times – Before Andrew, the insurers sold home insurance as a loss leader and loaded the policies with lavish benefits to attract customers for their car insurance and to build up capital in their investment portfolios. ?It was a kind of avuncular, sleepy …
Car Insurance Rate-Evaders Equal Highway Robbery
Insurance News Net – Nov. 18–Their license plates say “Pennsylvania” or “North Carolina,” but the drivers of many of those cars in New York and its suburbs aren’t here to visit Broadway or Jones Beach. They live here. They are part of an $80-billion-a-year nationwide …
The Barefoot Investor: Spice world tastes bitter
News.com.au – The company’s offices are located on Bannerghatta Road, which is where the bloke ringing you at dinner about cheaper car insurance is sitting — with around 150,000 of his friends, representing practically every major company and call centre in the …
Outside the box: Five England candidates
Daily Telegraph – No danger of that with Churchill Car Insurance mainstay Churchill the dog. Carrying a sanguine equanimity and calm that would be invaluable when holding a position that is under constant and relentless scrutiny, Churchill is a different kind of yes …
Drivers advised to compare with care
Boston Globe – Drivers advised to compare with care Under competition, rates to vary widely in car insurance policies … In this new era of Massachusetts auto insurance, one thing is becoming clear: Drivers should compare policies …
Off-duty Chicago police officer charged in fatal car crash
Chicago Tribune – … with drunken driving and other traffic offenses after his pickup truck rear-ended an Illinois State Police squad car … Saxton was charged with DUI and cited for driving without insurance, following too closely and failing to reduce speed, Hanford …
Itsy-bitsy car looks to make it big in U.S.
Chicago Tribune – Itsy-bitsy car looks to make it big in U.S. It’s a huge hit in Europe. Now U.S. buyers are lining up as the Smart Fortwo … with the Mini Cooper, but the Mini has compiled a better safety record than some larger vehicles, according to the Insurance …
