Endsleigh targets NASUWT members for home insurance
June 13, 2011 by Timothy Wilkes · Leave a Comment
Endsleigh today unveiled a promise to all NASUWT members across the UK that they will beat any existing home insurance renewal quote for them.
Endsleigh already offer customised deals for teachers and are now bolstering their NASUWT home insurance product by offering this price guarantee until 31 December 2011.
Endsleigh home insurance includes 24 hour replacement for laptops, TVs and bikes and free home emergency cover when building and contents insurance are purchased together.
All NASUWT teachers will also automatically have any home office equipment and garden contents insured as standard and cover for house keys.
How to Contact the Original Creditor in Collections
May 30, 2011 by Gemma Torreggiani · Leave a Comment
If you have a bill in collections, track down your original creditor to pay your bill and work on improving your credit. When a debt isn’t repaid, it can move from one collection agency to another while employees attempt to collect a portion of the debt. If you need to speak to the original creditor, find out their contact information and make the call. Original creditors may not be able to get the debt back from the collection agency it was sold to, but you can find out how legitimate the debt is by speaking with them.
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions
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- 1Check your credit report for a list of your debtors.
Keelan Westall wins back dormant brokers
May 30, 2011 by Timothy Wilkes · Leave a Comment
Keelan Westall says it has reactivated almost 100 dormant broker accounts as a result of its “Win Back” campaign and having improved and broadened its proposition for the let residential market.
The campaign focused on brokers who had not placed business with the Hampshire-based company for six months or more and the success represents approximately £135,000 in gross written premium over a 12-week period.
Brokers were apparently particularly impressed by enhanced service standards, including one hour turnaround for residential new business and an average nine-week claims settlement time.
The firm’s senior development executive, Sophie Roitt, comments: “We are delighted with the results … dormant brokers were receptive and intrigued to learn more about the new products introduced by Keelan Westall over the past six months as well as other changes to the business.”
She adds: “We are looking forward to picking up on the good relationships of recent years and re-building long-term partnerships.”
Among the new products launched recently by Keelan Westall is “Agility”, which is aimed at non-standard property risks, such as non-standard construction, risks with a high loss ratio, asylum seekers, and bedsits.
Vermont governor signs universal healthcare bill
May 29, 2011 by Thomas Brownlee · Leave a Comment
New law designed to lead the state toward the nation’s first single-payer system
Vermont still has “a few challenges” ahead to meet its goal of a universal health care system this decade, Gov. Peter Shumlin said Thursday as he signed into law the bill designed to make the state the nation’s first with fully publicly funded health care.
More than 150 people, including legislators, administration officials, advocates who pushed for the bill and a handful of opponents gathered on the Statehouse steps as storm clouds threatened but gave way to humid sunshine.
“We gather here today to launch the first single-payer health care system in America, to do in Vermont what has taken too long — have a health care system that is the best in the world, that treats health care as a right and not a privilege, where health care follows the individual, isn’t required by an employer — that’s a huge jobs creator,” Shumlin said.
Among Vermont’s challenges: getting waivers from the federal government at a time when the U.S. House has come out st
Proposed Rule For The CLASS Act Expected In October
May 29, 2011 by Timothy Wilkes · Leave a Comment
The rule is expected to make major changes, including a possible move to index the premiums for inflation.
CLASS Act Changes Coming
Federal officials plan to issue a proposed rule in October that will make major changes to the controversial Community Living Assistance Services and Support (CLASS) program, Assistant Secretary for Aging Kathy Greenlee said Thursday. Some of the possible changes still being weighed, Greenlee said, include whether to increase the minimum earnings requirement for enrollees, index the premiums for inflation and beef up anti-fraud protections.