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Landowners Liability Insurance

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Landowners Liability Insurance is a type of insurance that is used to protect someone that owns a plot land in any case where a third party may injure themselves on the land and then hold the owner of the land responsible. You can get this specific insurance for most types of land such as fields, woodland, undeveloped pasture and even lakes, ponds and streams. This insurance is especially important if the public has rights of access on the land as the more people that walk on it means that there will obviously be a higher risk of someone injuring themselves at some point.

There are three main levels of cover that you can get with Landowners Liability Insurance starting from the lowest level of one million pounds and increasing to either two million or five million pounds limit of liability. This limit is basically the maximum that the insurers will pay out following any claim, which is why most people tend to get the minimum of one million pounds cover because it would be quite hard for someone to claim damages of over one million pounds from you if they injured themselves on your land.

Most prices start from around one hundred pounds for a yearly policy but there are various things that can affect the price of the premium. There are certain questions that most insurers will ask you such as whether there are any automatic gates or barriers on the land, whether there are any watercourses or water features on or adjacent to the land and things such as what the land is used for, how long you’ve owned it and any previous uses of the land.

Obviously the lowest premiums would be for the basic landowner’s liability insurance only and should you require any of the add-ons that you can get then you would be looking at paying a higher premium. There are various extras that you can have on the policy such as Legal Expenses Insurance or Employers Liability if you employ anyone to take care of the land. You can also get Straying of Livestock added on to the policy which would cover you if you had any animals on the land which then escaped and caused a crash or something.

Is It Wrong To Buy Pet Insurance?

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

That’s okay and that’s perfectly alright but don’t you know you can cut down on expenses for their treatments without ever depriving them of the love and care and treatment that you’ve been giving to your pet which he is now accustomed to? The answer is pet insurance. If your pet is affected with diseases and needs veterinary treatment, the cost can be expensive and this is the result of a surge in pet insurance and depending on situations, a pet insurance can be expensive or not, an overkill or not.

If you’re willing to shoulder all the expenses for paying treatment for your pet, insurance is deemed unnecessary. But sometimes, a chronic illness or a serious accident could make you end up shelling out hundreds of dollars and in this case, insurance is well worth considering especially if your dog behaves like a horse. So it depends upon the situation. If you have a Border Collie which is considered very hyperactive, pet insurance. But if you have a two-toed sloth, no more pet insurance, get the point? Always depends on the situation. You may also opt for a self-insurance. You set aside a sum of money each month and build up that some in case of situations or emergencies uncalled for. But the problem to his solution is what if your pet has caught a severe illness in the first few months of your self-insurance? Now, that’s where the headaches lie and self-insurance doesn’t cover you for liability. What if your dog bites someone? That someone might bite back at you.

Home Contents Insurance

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Home contents insurance is insurance that covers your belongings, other than your house, in the case of fire, theft or damage (depending on your particular policy – of course). If you think you don’t need home contents insurance, then take a walk through your living room and just add up all those items that make your life good and then calculate how much it would cost you to replace them. It’s amazing what one can collect over a period of a few years. Now that you know how much it will cost to replace them, you can decide for yourself – can you afford not to take out home contents insurance.

If you already have home contents insurance, then just for laughs, do the same exercise – walk around your living room and take a quick inventory of what you have. Unless you’ve done a home contents list within the past year or so, you’ll be alarmed at how much you’ve actually acquired. Whether you’re a new insurer or an old hand, the fact is that should something happen to your home, you’ll need to give the insurance company a list of all the things that are missing or damaged. At such stressful times, unless you have an inventory, you’re bound to forget half of the items you need to replace.