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Big Brother Home Insurance Bill Makes a Happy House, Says Confused.com

Big Brother Home Insurance Bill Makes a Happy House, Says Confused.com











Cardiff, UK (PRWEB) June 30, 2008

Confused.com included the following info when filling out the home insurance application forms.


    No Flood Risk. Despite the house being built on the site of the old water tank where Moby Dick and The Dam Busters were filmed, there’s little risk of flood at Elstree Studios. In fact there’s more threat from contestants’ tears, belly flops into the pool, and the deluge of attention-seeking applicants still clamouring to get on the show.
    Residents are Non-Smokers. But there’s a giant ashtray in the garden! Well, since the local council classes the house as a workplace and not a home, and with Big Brother himself liable to a £2,500 fine every time a housemate lights up indoors, there’s no smoking inside. Therefore, for home insurance quote purposes the residents are non-smokers.
    Highly Secure Home. With private guards and 24/7 CCTV monitoring, the place is always going to score highly with insurers on matters of security. As an interesting aside, it’s a pity former contestant Jade Goody didn’t learn any security lessons from her two appearances on the show. In May of this year, burglars stole over £50,000 in jewellery from her Essex home – this despite being burgled twice before!
    Buildings Insurance. The amount of buildings insurance required is equal to the build value (£500,000 in the case of the Big Brother 9 house).
    Contents Insurance. Cover was set at £50,000 because, even though what you see looks pretty high-end, there are nowhere near as many contents as you’d find in a regular house containing a lifetime of accumulated items. Accidental damage cover was also included as there hasn’t been a contestant capable of repairing anything since DIY expert Craig Phillips won Big Brother 1 way back in 2000.

Cheapest Quotes Returned

HomeInsurer.co.uk – £170.42

Broker King – £228.24

So whether Big Brother 9 becomes home sweet home or a house of horrors for the contestants, it could definitely be a happy house for whoever pays the home insurance bill.

Car Crash Television

One more thing, Big Brother evictee Alex De Gale’s BMW has been vandalised as a result of her bullying ways on the show. So if you’re going on Big Brother there are two lessons to learn from this: (1) Get adequate car insurance before going in, and (2) be nice!

Notes to editors

For further information please contact:

Caroline Spindlove                                            

Confused.com                        

02920 434 393

Gug Kyriacou/ Joanna Harte                            

Polhill Communications            

020 7655 0550

About Confused.com:

Confused.com is one of the UK’s biggest and most popular price comparison services. Launched in 2002, it dominates the car insurance aggregator market and generates over one million quotes per month. It has expanded its range of comparison products over the last couple of years to include home insurance, travel insurance, pet insurance, van insurance, motorbike insurance, breakdown cover and energy, as well as financial services products including credit cards, loans, mortgages and life insurance.

Confused.com is not a supplier, insurance company or broker. It provides its customers with a free, wholly objective comparison service to help with their decision making. Using cutting-edge technology, Confused.com has developed a series of intelligent web-based solutions that evaluate a number of risk factors to help customers search, buy and apply for whichever product or policy best matches their individual needs. Prices quoted on Confused.com are the same, or cheaper, than going to the insurer direct. Confused.com’s service is based on the most up to date information provided by UK suppliers and industry regulators.

Confused.com is regulated by the FSA.

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LV= Discovers Wealthy Young Brits Make Easy Target for Thieves

LV= Discovers Wealthy Young Brits Make Easy Target for Thieves










Croydon, London (PRWEB) June 19, 2010

Research from LV= Streetwise has revealed that many young brits are making themselves easy targets for thieves as 92% of 13-15 year olds carry a mobile phone on them whilst out and about with their friends, 74% carry cash and 42% leave the house with an iPod.

The clothes and gadgets carried by the average young teen on Britain’s streets are worth £246*, singling them out as targets for thieves, while 21% of 5-8 year olds carry a mobile phone** and 17% carry cash when they’re out and about with friends.

Many young people carry valuable items like a mobile phone because their parents want to keep them safe. Among 5-15 year olds, as many as 62% said their parents ask them to keep a mobile phone with them. But mums’ and dads’ attempts to protect their children when they’re out on their own may be inadvertently increasing the risk of theft, as 11-16 years olds make up a third of all mugging victims***.

Furthermore, by focusing their concerns on outside threats such as stranger danger, parents could be blinkered with regard to their children’s safety knowledge in and around the home. The LV= (http://www.lv.com/ ) Streetwise research shows that 38% of 5-15 year olds would not know how to leave the house safely in the event of a fire, and 15% don’t feel they are able to cross the road safely.

The LV= Streetwise (http://www.lv.com/aboutus/community/Streetwise ) research findings also reveal parental confusion over when it’s right to give their children more independence. 49% of parents**** said they are so unsure about what is the right age to allow certain freedoms to their kids, that they make up the rules as they go along.

Mike Rogers, LV= group chief executive, said: “Helping to steer your children safely through the world around them is one of the biggest challenges for parents today. While most parents will warn their children to be careful when carrying around cash and expensive gadgets, they may not pay the same attention to the safety risks in and around the home.

“Our purpose as an insurer is to protect people’s lives and possessions, so naturally we also feel strongly about helping to educate families about safety and risk prevention. As a founder member of the LV= Streetwise charity we have a long-term commitment to child safety, and the message is going nationwide this summer as our safety bus roadshow visits summer fairs across the UK, to educate youngsters about safety.”

The research findings come as the LV= Streetwise safety bus roadshow (http://www.lv.com/aboutus/community/safety_bus ) continues to tour the UK, helping to educate children about safety in the home, on the road and at railway crossings.

Note to editors:

All research, unless stated otherwise, was undertaken by ICM research via online method. ICM is a member of the British Polling Council and abides by its rules.

*Opinium Research used online poll of 161 parents of 13-15 year olds between 30th April and 4th May 2010.

** Research undertaken 23rd March – 7th April 2010 amongst 1000 children aged 5-15 by ICM Research via online method.

*** Statistics compiled from a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to individual police forces about robberies by Conservative youth spokesman, Justine Greening MP.

**** Research undertaken by ICM Research 19-28 March 2010 via an online survey involving 6099 adults,1505 of whom were parents of children under the age of 18.

About LV=

LV= is a registered trade mark of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited (LVFS) and a trading style of the Liverpool Victoria group of companies. LV= employs around 4,000 people, serves over 3.8m customers and members, and manages around £9.3bn on their behalf.

LV= was a founder member of the charity LV= Streetwise and is still the main sponsor.

LV= offer a range of insurance products including house contents insurance (http://www.lv.com/insurance/home_insurance/tips_advice/house-contents-insurance ), buildings insurance (http://www.lv.com/insurance/home_insurance/tips_advice/buildingsinsurance ), motor insurance, life insurance, pet insurance and 50 plus life cover.

For further information, please contact:

Emma Banks

LV=

69 Park Lane

Croydon

CR9 1BG

0208 256 6714

http://www.lv.com

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