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The car owners who do not wish to buy car insurance cover will now forced to declare their car off road. If your car remains off road most of the time then also there is a need to get statutory off-road notification. The car owner with a registered car needs to have an insurance cover now.

The government measures for clamping down the uninsured motorists have taken a new turn by the enactment of CIE. Earlier the drivers caught without insurance cover were either charged or prosecuted. Now the registered car users without an insurance cover will be issued a warning letter followed by a heavy fine.

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How named driver car insurance can reduce your premiums

There are a number of ways to find the cheapest car insurance – increasing your excess, shopping around and choosing your car wisely are all viable options, but many people don’t realise that using a named driver policy can have the same effect.

There are two ways of using a named driver policy to save you or your family money when it comes to car insurance. There are, however, some rules you have to abide by if you don’t want to break the law.

If you have newly qualified drivers in the family, then adding them to your policy as a named driver is a good way of saving them some money.

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The iconic Batmobile from the 1995 production of Batman Forever was recently sold at a Fort Lauderdale auction for $233,000.

Though the vehicle has a proud new owner, don’t expect to see it on the road anytime soon. At 25 feet long and with a 10.5-foot tail fin on the back, the car will likely never meet federal vehicle safety standards.

The Wall Street Journal reported the vehicle was expected to go for anywhere between $200,000 and $275,000, which may sound expensive for a car that can’t be driven, but according to some sources, it was merely a fraction of the vehicle’s original cost.

The film’s producer Tim Burton may have spent nearly $2.8 million for the vehicle.

Now that the old Batmobile has been sold, rumors are starting to spring up about the vehicles that will appear in the upcoming Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises.

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Taking a mortgage contract was easy in the past, especially with the increased number of offers of this kind available. However, since the financial recession in 2008, people lost their homes, the value of real estates have fallen dramatically, and millions of homes were foreclosed. This is because the people had no problems in paying their insurances, and they were not concerned to ensure themselves against this risk. Today, the new mortgages signed by the banks with their clients have a clause of payment protection cover, meaning that the insurance company will pay for the remaining rates of the mortgage in case the client cannot pay anymore.

The compensation for unpaid mortgages is paid by the insurance companies only if several conditions are met. Read full post…

Millions of customers who were sold payment protection insurance are to receive letters from their lenders explaining that their policies may have been mis-sold and telling them how to make a claim – an exercise the City regulator cost the banks billions of pounds.

Over the next year letters will be sent to between four million and 12 million customers who bought the insurance, usually alongside loans and credit cards, to tell them they may be able to claim to have their premiums refunded.

This is because exclusions on the policies, which are supposed to pay out in the event that redundancy or sickness prevented them from working, meant they were not able to claim.

In 2011, customers received more than £1.9bn in compensation for mis-sold policies, and the City regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA), said payouts prompted by these letters “may well exceed” what has been paid out so far.

The FSA has issued guidelines on what the letters must include, and is now consulting on these with banks.

The guidance states that the letters should be clear and fair, and free from financial jargon and marketing material.

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Many of us feel that the benefit amount we receive on the maturity of all life insurance policies is always tax-free. However that is not correct because not all life insurance policies will provide you a tax exemption on the maturity amount. Most of the Life Insurance Policies offer tax benefits on the maturity amount but not all of them are tax-free. There are some conditions which a life insurance policyholder has to fulfil after which the policy availed by him/her is eligible for tax benefits. The proceeds received on maturity of the life insurance policy will be exempted from tax if the following conditions are fulfilled in accordance with section 10(10)D of Income tax Act:

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