Thursday, February 18th, 2010
Aviva is offering customers the option to cut the cost of their health insurance by limiting the amount of cover their health policy provides. If you will pay the first £5,000 of your costs you can gain a discount of up to 65%. Agree to pay the first £3,000 of your own costs, and have a discount of up to 50%.
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

The pitfalls of arranging your own life insurance cover, health insurance, home insurance and motor insurance online or via price comparison websites have been highlighted in new guidelines by the Association of British Insurers (ABI).
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
The Association of British Insurers is this week to present latest proposals to clear up consumer misunderstanding of key terms and conditions of health insurance policies.
The list of concerns the ABI has raised serves to highlight for consumers the pitfalls in the small print of health cover.
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Life insurance is now cheaper than it has been for ten years, due to increased competition between the top 10 general insurance and pensions groups, which together provide 80% of life cover written in the UK, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Furthermore, not only new customers, seeking to insure themselves for the first [...]
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
The Association of British Insurers has called on consumers to protect themselves and their families from sudden loss of income by ensuring they have a well-designed suite of personal insurance products in place. In its new document ‘People Need Financial Protection’, the ABI refers to the current ‘uncertain economic outlook’ and warns consumers against ‘a sudden [...]
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has this week urged insurance customers to ensure that they fully understand the terms and conditions of their insurance policies, when insuring themselves against sickness and unemployment. The comments followed a case where an insurer turned down a payment protection insurance (PPI) claim, quoting a clause blocking claims where the insured ‘became [...]
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Nearly 40% of people retiring with defined contribution pension schemes are unaware of their right to shop around for a pension annuity, according to new research just published by the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Defined contribution pension schemes are those into which an employer pays a regular contribution, fixed as an amount or percentage of [...]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Don’t cancel your insurance cover – look for a better deal! This was the recent warning from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) highlighting the dangers for consumers of cancelling life insurance and home insurance cover, as they tighten their belts in the current financial climate. New figures released today by the ABI show that in the past [...]
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Are you prone to ‘ostrich syndrome’, when it comes to planning for your future, and your pension plan? They say that the ostrich, rather than facing up to a threat or a problem, buries its head in the sand, in the hope that the problem will simply go away. Why does ‘ostrich syndrome’ appear to [...]
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