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The economy may be rocking but there is a place where the word ‘loan’ is still a positive force. Many articles have been written on the subject of microfinance or charitable investment but it is still a widely unknown concept. Microfinance companies and charities offer small loans to poor people, who are often in developing countries who need a little financial help to be able to set up their own businesses.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Loans
Housing Minister, Caroline Flint and Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, have recently announced a new package of major measures to tackle the difficulty key workers and first-time buyers have been facing when trying to break into the property market.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Mortgages
Two elderly American women, who hatched a plot to collect life insurance pay outs, are being charged with murder this month. The pair claimed to be engaged or related to homeless men in order to collect life insurance funds after killing them.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Insurance
The major bank has admitted that a computer disk containing the life insurance details of nearly 400,000 customers has been lost. The disk went missing at some stage during courier transportation between a HSBC office and the office of reinsurers Swiss Re.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Insurance
The United States Government have come under fire recently for being too liberal when allocating expense credit cards to employees and has also been criticised for not clamping down sufficiently on their misuse.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Credit Cards
750 people are facing the axe as Capital One decides to cut jobs in its UK head office. The office which currently has 1,750 members of staff is located in Nottingham.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Insurance
A British fraudster who took his council to court has seen the tables turned. David Cairns said it was a slip and trip due to uneven paving which caused his ankle injury in the year 2000, but Cairns had actually suffered the injury during a game of football.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Insurance
It is now one year on from the horrific Virginia Tech Massacre and it has come to light that families of those who were murdered in the shootings will be compensated by the state.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Legal
The Department for Transport have said that eight out of ten accidental deaths involving 15 to 19 year old men in Great Britain are road casualties. With figures like this it is easy to see why car insurance premiums are higher for young drivers than for more experienced road users.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Insurance
Car insurers are set to make a profit for the first time in 14 years according to a report released this year. They will make a profit in 2009 because of rises in insurance premiums the report has said. This year the industry faces a loss but the market will make a profit of £30 million pounds next year because the cost of premiums will outstrip the cost of accident claims, the Market Analyst Datamonitor revealed.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Insurance
Critics are saying that advertisements for personal injury companies encourage fraudulent accident claims. Funny and misleading advertisements are being cited as a cause for fraudulent accident claims this month. Rick Shapiro on Injury Board.com wrote a startling and critical polemic on the problem, saying that funny insurance advertisements are a disgrace.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Legal
It was recently revealed that thousands of workers in New Jersey are getting hurt at work and finding out that their employers have not taken out insurance to cover their injuries. The Star Ledger reported that the problem is a “small but growing slice” of the state's litigious system which pays out a total of $1.8 billion a year in accident claims.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Insurance
According to a survey by price comparison site moneysupermarket.com 1 in 7 British drivers admit to driving without car insurance. Other surprising findings by the website include the revelation that 15% of motorists said they have driven a car in the past which they were not insured to drive and a further 6% of those questioned had driven their own vehicle without insurance.
Posted: 2008-05-12
Category: Insurance
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