CAR AND HOME INSURANCE

CAR AND HOME INSURANCE

Why is car and home insurance so important? It's vital because you would stand to lose a fortune if you couldn't insurer your assets against risks like theft and damage. If you have financed an asset like a car or your home, then the bank will make it a requirement that you have insurance cover in place.

Short term insurance extends further than insuring just your household contents and vehicles. It can include insuring the actual structure of your home and specified items like laptops and cell phones that are out and about with your all day. Making sure you have insured your assets correctly is as important as getting the best insurance rates. We can help you on both fronts, car insurance and home insurance. Not only can we provide you with comparative short term insurance quotes, but we can answer any short term insurance question you might have.

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Car and Home

Are You Making This Mistake When It Comes To Contents Insurance?

by Lawrence
Don't run the risk of being under insured!

Do yourself a favour…pull out a copy of your most recent motor and household insurance schedule and page to the section which deals with household contents. Then look for the sum insured amount. Got it? Now here’s what I’d like to share with you…apparently 84% of all policyholders are under-insured on their householders insurance! Here’s what you need to ask yourself: “Are you one of the 16% who are correctly insured?” Of course the only way to find out is by completing an asset register at replacement value, and if you feel that you are indeed correctly insured then read no further, BUT… Wouldn’t you be interested in finding out by how much the 84% are under-insured? What if I were to tell you that approximately 64% of these households are under-insured? “So who cares?” you might be saying at this point, and yes I know…insurance isn’t the most exciting thing in the world, but let’s bring this closer to home by assuming that you’re one of those who fall into the 64% under-insured group. Take a moment to study the sum insured on your insurance schedule. How much are we talking about…R200, 000, R500, 000…a R1, 000, 000? Now ...

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Should You Go Direct?

by Lawrence
Insurance claims driving you up the wall?

We got the call a little over a week ago… A couple was referred to us by one of our clients. Apparently lightning had struck their home and fried their alarm system. Doing the right thing, they duly notified the insurer who informed them that they – the insurer – would send out their authorised agent as soon as possible to repair the alarm system. Now knowing that we don’t live in the safest of countries, the couple were slightly miffed at the insurer’s refusal to have the local alarm company (who installed the alarm) come in and repair it. After all, what if their house was broken into during the night? What you need to know is that this is the type of client we love…always paid their premiums on time, and had been with their current insurer for ten years with this being their first ever claim! All it took was lousy treatment for them to go shopping. But I had a problem… The couple had been with the same insurer for ten years – never claimed – which meant low, low premiums. Ten years ago the risks were a lot less; insurance rates were also a lot ...

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How On Earth Do Insurance Companies Make Money?

by Lawrence
How do insurance companies make money?

What if I’ve only paid one premium and then write off my R140, 000 vehicle in an accident the next day? I’ve often asked myself that very same question… Or how about this question: “How would you start a brand new insurance company from scratch?” I mean think of it… You’ve placed your first ten clients on books, and In the process collected R10, 000 in premiums. Next day your first client phones in and says he’s written off his R140, 000 car R10, 000 in payments collected versus R140, 000 to be paid out! I don’t know about your business, but in our businesses it means closing  the doors (…and a lot of ducking and diving)! But before we get to the theoretical version of how insurers make money, let’s go back a few thousand years, to the very beginning of the insurance industry… How they insured in the good ole days! The story goes that Chinese merchants made use of rivers to transport their goods from place to place. Now instead of putting all their worldly possessions on just one boat they would spread their wares between a couple of boats – that way, if one of them ...

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Insurance Companies…Are They A Bunch Of Thieves?

by Lawrence
Insurance claim form

Here’s a true story…and a valuable lesson for us all! Recently Brendan got a call from one of our household insurance clients. Client: Hi Brendan, I’ve just been robbed! Brendan: Are you OK? What happened? Client: I’m fine. I woke up from an afternoon nap only to find a bunch of guys in my home. They took all my jewellery. How do I go about claiming? Brendan: No problem! I’ll send you the household insurance claim form…How much jewellery are we talking about here? Client: Oh, I reckon it’s easily R100, 000! Brendan: Shew, I didn’t know you had that much! Do you have valuation certificates for all these items? Client: No, why? Now first things first! It’s not the first time we’ve asked household insurance clients to please send us inventories and valuation certificates for jewellery. Truth be told – the vast majority of our email correspondence regarding this type of thing is simply ignored… …Heck Brendan, I’m just too busy right now! I’ll try and get the valuation done this weekend…I promise! Sound familiar? No valuations on jewellery means that neither the client or us have a leg to stand on when it comes time to handling the ...

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Protect yourself against your biggest risk!

by Brendan
Dont have insurance hassles rain on your parade

Mention the word “insurance” at any family lunch and you could find yourself banished to the laundry room to enjoy your dinner with Snoopy the miniature poodle. So what is it about insurance, specifically the short term variety of cover, that gets everyone, including your immediate family, so hot under the proverbial collar? I’ll tell you what the major gripe is. You pay and pay your premiums and when you claim there is always an issue! “Forget the Super 14 Sharks franchise, bloody INSURANCE SHARKS will give you a tougher fight at claim stage.” Sound familiar? It might have been that you’ve had a few claims repudiated or you’ve been short changed in the past. It could be that right from the start your insurer has decided you don’t have a valid claim and didn’t even entertain your request. So how can we all avoid further tears, frustration and pain when it comes to your short term insurance related matters? The first thing we need to do is educate ourselves on these matters. So let’s start right at the beginning and in this blog post concentrate on one of the principles of insurance law. Why you ask? It’s simple really. ...

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Short & long term insurance. What’s the difference?

by Brendan
Insurance is insurance, right?

So what’s the difference? Before we look at the fundamental difference between these two common types of insurance covers, let’s first define the term “insurance”. We don’t want to put the cart before the horse. Insurance is simply the transfer of the risk. You transfer your risk of loss to an insurer and pay a premium to have that risk insured. It could be the risk of dying, while owing a lot of money on your bond or the risk of having your new expensive LCD TV blow up after a lightning bolt slams into your house. Whatever it is, this risk of loss transference to an insurer is the basis of insurance. That’s why each and every month you part with some of your hard earned cash to have that brand spanking new silver BMW insured. You can’t afford to run the risk of having your car stolen while still owing the bank R350 000. I mean could you imagine finding yourself strapping on a pair of old dusty Nike running shoes during a particularly freezing Highveld winter and jogging 50km to work every morning while you still pay off a luxury German car you no longer have the ...

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