Archive | March, 2010

ASDA eCar Insurance

12 Mar

Over on the main Homeapproved website we have recently launched the Exclusive Online ASDA eCar Insurance.

ASDA are now offering two different types of motor policy. The latest offering is named ’Exclsuive Online eCar Insurance’. A bit of a mouthful but essentially it is insurance that puts you in control.

If you ever need to adjust your Asda eCar Insurance policy, there’s no hanging on the phone, no hoops to jump through – just go straight online and simply make the changes yourself!

With Asda Online Exclusive you can make the most of Protected No Claims Discount (NCD) – for life! Available to anyone with 5 yrs or more NCD – they will protect it for as long as you remain an Asda Online Exclusive customer. Click through to find out more and obtain your new quote today.

Car Insurance Fronting

5 Mar

Car insurance fronting is a subject which every so often gets dragged into the spotlight.

To clarify, a fraud called “fronting” occurs when a young person has a car in their own name, but the insurer is falsely told that someone else other than the main driver of the motor insurance policy is driving the vehicle most of the time. The most common example of this is where parents are fronting policies for their children in an attempt to lower the cost of car insurance premiums.

Recent research delivers evidence that as many as one in five young drivers are complicit in what’s known as insurance fronting. As a consequence of this car insurance firms are rejecting a thousand claims a year as some parents and children lie to save money.

Fronting has been made illegal because it presents a much higher risk for the insurers than what they have quoted you for. To them, the main driver should be the one using the car most of the time and any additional drivers should be driving occasionally. It is on this basis and the fact that an experienced driver is less likely to be involved in an accident than a young driver that the premiums are considerably cheaper.

The insurance industry itself will not reveal any figures on how many claims it is turning down, but the Financial Ombudsman Service says it is dealing with between 100 and 200 fronting disputes each year, and that indicates that firms will be dealing with around 1000 such cases annually.

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