Insurance
18 guides.
- InsuranceDeclaring Overseas Driving Experience for UK Car InsuranceSome UK insurers reduce the initial premium if you can declare years of clean driving abroad. There is no industry-wide standard: each insurer decides whether and how to count it. How to declare it, what documents help, and what to do if it is not accepted.
- InsurancePhone Insurance: What It Covers and What to Check Before BuyingWhat phone insurance usually covers, from accidental damage to theft and loss, the excess and exclusions to read, and how to check whether you are already covered before you buy.
- InsuranceHome Emergency and Boiler Cover Explained: What It Pays For and What to CheckHome emergency cover pays for an urgent repair, such as a boiler that stops working, and is separate from buildings and contents insurance. What it usually covers, the terms that decide a claim, and what to check before you buy or renew.
- InsurancePet Insurance Explained: Lifetime, Time-Limited and What to Check at RenewalPet insurance comes in four types, and the type decides what happens to a long-term condition. How each works, what pre-existing conditions mean, why prices rise with age, and what to check before you switch.
- InsuranceHome Insurance Renewal Checklist: What to Check Before It RenewsWhat to check when a UK home insurance renewal arrives: the price against last year, the sums insured, what has changed at home, and the conditions that catch people out.
- InsuranceCar Insurance When You Move House: What to Tell Your Insurer and WhenMoving home changes your car insurance. What to tell the insurer, when to tell them, what else has to be updated, and what happens to the price.
- InsuranceFamily Travel Insurance: What to Check Before You BuyWhat a family travel insurance policy usually covers, who counts as family, and what to check about medical conditions, activities, cancellation and excesses.
- InsuranceBuildings and Contents Insurance: What Each Covers and Which You NeedThe difference between buildings and contents insurance in the UK, who needs which, and how the sums insured are worked out.
- InsuranceWhat You Need to Get a Car Insurance QuoteThe details to have ready before you ask for a UK car insurance quote, where to find each one, and why accurate answers matter.
- InsuranceWhat Affects the Cost of Car Insurance in the UKWhat UK insurers look at when they price car insurance: the driver, the car, where it is kept, how it is used and how you pay, and which of those you can change.
- InsuranceCar Insurance Renewal Checklist: What to Do Before It Auto-RenewsWhat to check in the weeks before your UK car insurance renews: the renewal price against last year, what has changed, the excess, the cover level, and how to avoid a policy renewing on autopilot.
- InsuranceTravel Insurance: Single-Trip or Annual, and What Usually Counts as CoveredSingle-trip versus annual multi-trip travel insurance for UK travellers: when each makes sense, what a policy usually covers, medical conditions in general terms, and what to check before you go.
- InsuranceHome Insurance When Moving House: Buildings, Contents and When Cover StartsMoving home in the UK: what buildings and contents insurance each cover, when cover on the new property should start, what happens to the old policy, and what to tell the insurer.
- InsuranceContents Insurance for Renters: What It Covers and What Landlords Do NotRenting in the UK: why the landlord’s insurance does not cover your belongings, what contents insurance covers, how to value your things, and what to check before you buy.
- InsuranceCar Insurance for New UK Residents: Licences, No-Claims History and What Insurers AskArriving in the UK and insuring a car: which licences you can drive on, why foreign no-claims history may or may not count, what insurers ask, and how to keep the first premium down.
- InsuranceBreakdown Cover Explained: Roadside, Home Start, Recovery and European CoverWhat each level of UK breakdown cover does, the difference between covering a vehicle and covering a person, what is usually excluded, and what to check at renewal.
- InsuranceVan Insurance: Business or Personal Use, and What Changes the PriceUK van insurance explained: the difference between social, commuting and business use, carriage of own goods versus haulage, and the factors that move the premium.
- InsuranceCar Insurance for First Time Drivers in the UKWhy car insurance costs more for first time drivers in the UK, what affects the price, third party versus comprehensive, black box policies, and how to keep the cost down.