You will be surprised how the common and obvious driving distraction can increase your car insurance premiums. Your first accident will raise insurance rates by about 22 while the first ticket will boost them 13% higher. It’s a fact. And most drivers know that the most common reason for having trouble behind the wheel is being distracted. And what are the most common distractions for a driver? Eating, talking or using your phone are the most common distraction that take your eyes of the road and lead to crashes or near-miss situations (if you’re fortunate enough). Most US drivers admit... 

It’s one of those sad facts of life that ageing is inevitable. Being philosophical about it - it’s going to happen so you might as well celebrate it. The question is how society should celebrate ageing. People who rely on driving to get them around while working, continue to need their vehicles when they retire. Let’s face it. In most US towns and cities, few people walk. Everyone drives. Fifty years ago, not many seniors drove around because life expectancy was a lot lower than it is today. Now more people own cars and, with more leisure time and better health, go out and about... 

Often, California has been in the lead when it comes to legislating for fairness. When a service industry is acting in an arbitrary way and damaging the interests of consumers, you can usually rely on Sacramento to do something about it. So, for example, the Insurance Commissioner instructed auto insurance companies not to rely on ZIP codes when writing policies. The real basis on which to assess risk should always be the individual driver. It’s fair to look at the person’s experience, driving record, how far he or she drives every year, etc. That way you reward the good drivers with... 

One of the tried-and-tested ways of catching your attention is to announce that something is “cheap”. The trouble with this word is that it changes its meaning. Our experience tells us you get what you pay for. So, if you only pay a low price that usually means you get low quality. Although luck may be on your side and you find an inexpensive bargain, more often than not the result is bad value for money. Borrowing an example from across the pond, there once was an entrepreneur called Gerald Ratner who sold cheap jewelry. In 1991, he made a speech in which he spoke the literal truth,... 

We all know that there’s a war between sexes on who are better drivers, men or women? And as men are claiming to be far better at the wheel the statistics are actually on the opposite side. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Report dated 2004 notes men being involved in 27,000 more fatal accidents, 432,000 more injury accidents and 1,369,000 more incidents with damaged property, resulting in total 1,828,000 more insurance claims filed by men in 2004 only. And since then the trend hasn’t changed. And it’s hard to tell that the most risky drivers - men younger... 

Life is never fair. Just when you think you have hit rock bottom and things cannot get any worse, they get worse. You would have thought that a recession would mean premium rates would stay the same. In your dreams, you might have hoped for the rates to fall. After all, there’s massive unemployment - it’s the worst level of unemployment for more than sixty years. With household incomes falling and no job security, this is not the time to find premium rates increasing. Yet when those premium notices drop into your mail boxes, the evidence is there. And it’s not just you. Premiums... 

If you don’t work in a company or don’t represent any enterprise, you should not think you don’t need a health insurance. You may find lots of causes not to have one but in reality there is only one problem that can be the cause stopping you from getting an insurance - that is, of course, money. It may not be your number one priority as sometimes hundreds of dollars is something you need to gather together to spend on the health insurance but let us be totally honest with you. You need it. Everybody needs insurance. When you don’t have the insurance, you are counting on... 

Before we try to answer this question let us define what life insurance is. What is it really? Well, first thing that should be said is that life insurance is meant to solve any financial situations that may occur regarding your everyday existence. Everybody has certain responsibilities. Not only do we commit to some things we plan in our life, but also it happens so that we are responsible for our partners, kids and sometimes even entire family. So when somebody promises us to help with a guarantee of being safe and doesn’t charge us too much, we take it a joke. But is it really this impossible... 

If you are a respectful businessman you won’t let yourself your company down by not having something that is required for good companies to have. You probably do have insurance yourself, whether it is car insurance, health insurance or anything else. You will never let people know you have weak points there for you will have your whole business insured. But don’t think it is so easy to get a good deal. Before you actually pick up your phone and dial somebody’s number you ought to know that there are certain requirements for each type of the company. You probably have been asking... 

We are used to think we are healthy. It is good when it is also true, but most of the time we just fool ourselves by thinking that we don’t need to see medics and check our health state because we are just fine. Maybe we are that it doesn’t hurt to be hundred percent sure and know that tomorrow’s medical bill won’t be a problem. Most of us want to assure themselves with a medical insurance and we have to say that nowadays it is a very necessary commodity. You do not have to consider it a waste of money, because it is just not. It is actually not that expensive and quite...