Turns out driving habits and modifications aren’t the only factors knocking up car insurance premiums. A poll by Confused.com has found that insufficient tyre maintenance is another headache to be added on your things-to-do list for a successful premium.
The study claims that bald or defective tyres could set you back by as much as 10,000 pounds and a denial of your car insurance claim. Adding to the sorry figures, you could also be hit with three penalty points, which will only keep adding up every time you are caught.
Starting with a fine of 2500 pounds and three penalty points, the fines will simply keep mounting, reaching apoplectic sums of 10000 pounds.
However, the deplorable truth, as revealed by the survey, is that almost 60% of UK drivers stay nonplussed about the correct tyre depth, 1.6 mm. I
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Maincom Services has appointed Adrian Morton as Business Development Manager, based at its Brisbane office. Mr Morton has more than 14 years’ experience working for a combination of property repair related suppliers and loss adjusters within the insurance industry in Australia and overseas.
Most seasoned caravanners are extremely fond of our caravans and it is therefore perfectly natural that we would seek the best caravan quote we can in order to try and maximise protection.
Of course, there is also the question of cost and for some people the best caravan quote may be that which is the cheapest.
So, is it possible to definitively state which is the best caravan insurance quote?
In practice, this may be difficult, bordering impossible.
The fact is that no two people are likely to have the same idea of what best means in terms of their caravan insurance.
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Minnesota regulators say the state’s insurance providers have paid out $64 million on damage claims—including about $2.25 million involving auto policies—filed in the wake of a tornado that tore through Minneapolis in May.
Those settlements account for about 80 percent of the adjusted claims filed in the aftermath of the storm, according to the state Department of Commerce. Another 920 claims—estimated at $8.7 million—have yet to be processed, but are expected to be paid, officials said.
The twister that struck north Minneapolis on May 22 was part of an outbreak of tornadoes over Midwestern and Southern states that caused at least 177 deaths and an estimated $6.5 billion in insured losses, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
As of Oct. 1, Minnes
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