The recent volcano crisis has taught me one thing above all else; never consider buying cheap travel insurance – and when you DO buy a policy check out word by word their exclusion clauses. That is something I doubt the majority of those stranded travellers did. One fellow stuck in Florida with his family was [...]

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You have to feel sorry for all those travellers who have seen their trips brought to a halt by the eruption of the volcano in Iceland; fair enough, planes  do not fare well when they fly through thick clouds of ash so of course they have to be grounded. But it is inconvenient and annoying [...]

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Billions of pounds are sitting unclaimed in old accounts, share certificates and out-of-date bank notes. But just because the company is no longer around, or the notes are out of circulation, it doesn’t mean they’re worthless. One of the most common practices is hunting down an insurance policy issued by a company that seems to [...]

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