My Car Insurance Advice

No car is perfect when it comes to safety. We know that automakers take safety seriously: in just the last 10 years, technical advances like crumple zones, reinforced cabin beams, and electronic stability control have reduced fatalities and severe injuries. But some cars are safer than others and here are some recent makes and models that dont pass muster, according to the Insurance Institute For Highway Safety’s 2009, 2010, and 2011 rankings. We also called three major insurance companies to ask them how much more theyd charge to insure these cars. You might be a little surprised by their car insurance comparison statistics.

The Worst:

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If you’re reading this blog, you probably own a van, or you are indeed thinking of buying a van, which is great, however that also probably means you need your van every day for business purposes. Well, not all vans are owned by those that need them for delivering goods or shifting around heavy loads. S

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In its review of Obamacare’s constitutionality, the Supreme Court will examine two substantive parts of the law: the “individual mandate” that compels private citizens to purchase health insurance or else pay a penalty; and the statute’s massive expansion of Medicaid. While the mandate question holds great constitutional interest, the outcome won’t greatly affect Obamacare’s operation one way or the other. The Medicaid question, in contrast, is crucial. The expanded program is expected to provide health coverage for an additional 16 million poor and near-poor, heretofore uninsured individuals, at a cost of upwards of $500 billion between 2014 and 2019.

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Bizarre insurance claims are no mere invention of the modern era – they were just as common in Victorian Britain.

Claims of bites by ferrets and fish, blows to the eye from catapults, slipping on orange peel and confusing poison with sleeping medicine were all made in 19th century East Anglia.

Fascinating documents unearthed in Avivas Norwich archives reveal an amazing catalogue of accident claims dating back to the 1800s.

The adage that where theres blame, theres a claim was as true in Victorias England as it is today if a trawl through the records of Aviva, formerly Norwich Union, are anything to go by.

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