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Beauty Salon Insurance Explained

Beauty Salon insurance can often come at a price to make your hair stand up on end, so it’s important to look carefully at the cover for ways of trimming the cost.

Salon is a broad term covering hairdressers, beauticians and nail bars. Continue reading

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Insurers may pull plug on insuring flood risk homes

Buy to let insurance firms are threatening to the pull plug on policies for homes at risk from flooding.

Around 25% of all homes in England and Wales could end up under water if the government fails to pledge cash to renewing flood defences under a long-standing agreement with home insurers.

The insurers agree to cover at risk homes until June 2013 on condition the government pumps cash in to flood defence schemes. Continue reading

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Home insurance quotes up 11% -and still climbing

Home insurance quotes are still climbing, according to the latest AA survey.

Average prices for buildings, contents and combined insurance climbed by 11% over the past 12 months. Continue reading

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Car insurance quotes surge upwards by 15% in a year

Car insurance quotes are accelerating upwards again after a brief respite, says the AA.

A typical comprehensive car insurance quote is now £971.40 – a 5.4% increase from £921.38 over the three months ending December 31. Continue reading

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Office Insurance Explained | Types of Cover Needed

Office insurance is an increasingly important safeguard against business disruption resulting from break-ins.

Offices are a soft target for crooks because they are often out-of-the-way of prying eyes and are stacked with expensive electronics. Continue reading

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Doctors and insurers squabble over fees for medical reports

Life insurance customers are likely to be trapped in the middle of a row over medical reports that could stop them taking out cover.

Penny pinching insurance firms have pulled out of an agreement with doctors to pay a £97 fee for GPs to provide medical reports on patients – instead they want patients to request £10 data access requests and send the information on. Continue reading

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Car insurance firms warm to winter tyres

Car insurance companies have ended the risk of motorists skating on thin ice by fitting winter tyres to their cars.

Trade body the Association of British Insurers, that talks for 90% of car insurance firms, has issued a statement reassuring drivers that fitting the tyres will not add any extra premium or breach policy conditions. Continue reading

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Hotel Insurance: Need to Know

Hotel insurance leaves no room for error in arranging cover for guests, staff and visitors.

Whether you run a small boutique bed-and-breakfast, a five-star flagship hotel or something in between, you need to tailor a bespoke policy that covers anything that can go wrong – and that can be a lot of things. Continue reading

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Car insurance leads in online search to save cash

Car insurance is the most searched insurance term on the web, according to the latest report from independent marketing monitor Experian.

The firm has tracked online searches for finance and insurance products for three years – and has just released a list of the most popular keywords motorists are putting in to Google and other search engines to try to find cheap car insurance. Continue reading

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Barkey Insurance : Need to Know

If running a bakery is your recipe for success, you need to make sure you can keep trading on that good reputation with customers.

Serving tasty bread and cakes is just one slice of the bakery pie – looking after the business is another important aspect that you cannot overlook. Continue reading

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