Life & Critical Illness Blog

Stop Smoking=Cheaper Critical Illness Cover

No smoking day is on March 11th.  This day is an incredible incentive to kick the habit.  If you can stop smoking for one day, you can stop forever.  Trust me on this, I did it. Stopping smoking for health reasons will be reward enough but your life assurance and critical illness premiums would also decrease [...]

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Scottish Provident Reduces Critical Illness Rates

Scottish Provident has announced that as of the 9th of March 2009, it will be reducing critical illness rates.  Strictly speaking this is a ‘re-price’ and as such not all rates will be lowered.  Scottish Provident says that the majority of rates will be lowered, some may stay the same and a few may increase.  This [...]

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Is Now The Best Time To Buy Life & Critical Illness Insurance?

It’s always a good time to buy life and critical illness insurance.  The statistics alone provide a good enough reason not to put it off.  The world is in recession, however, which changes things a little.  First of all people are being made redundant which means that they can’t pay their day to day expenses.  Life [...]

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Take Two Aspirin and Call me in the Morning

How often do you disregard your doctor’s advice?  Go for this test, get this prescription filled, you should have that looked at, etc.  I have to admit that there are several times I have ignored my physician’s advice, rightly or wrongly.  So far the dice have rolled in my favor and I haven’t suffered any [...]

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Life Insurance for Santa Claus

As I was stuck in traffic on a Los Angeles freeway yesterday, I saw a deflated blow-up Santa lying on the side of the road and, being the insurance person I am, I started thinking about what would happen if the real Santa Claus died? Would any toys get delivered on Christmas Eve? [...]

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A life insurance commercial to end the year…

  Check out this really cool life insurance commercial… (Who ever said life insurance was boring…??)

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