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Insurance can play ‘important role’ in protecting finances

February 2, 2008 by admin  
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Insurance can play an important role in helping consumer meet their financial commitments, one expert has claimed.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has said that taking out insurance can significantly improve a situation when household experiences financial difficulties due to unemployment, illness or loss of life.

Nick Starling, the ABI’s Director of General Insurance and Health said: “It is important when people are taking out a loan or a mortgage that they think about how they would meet repayments should they fall ill or become unemployed.”

Statistics show that 23 per cent of people will be jobless at one stage in their lives while more than one in three could be out of work for more than a year.

The most vulnerable groups who have no insurance or coping strategies in place include single income families, single parent families, larger families and single women aged between 18 and 35.

Meanwhile, earlier in the month the ABI has made a commitment to ensure claims are assessed fairly and paid “without fuss”.

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