The Insurance News

For homeowners in snow-prone areas of the country, roof damage or leaks from snow and ice dams are common winter threats to your home. How do you know if you have ice dams? Wikipedia has a good photo of an ice dam forming on a slate roof. Essentially, if you have large icicles hanging from your roof, you probably have an ice dam problem. The icicles are the symptom, not the underlying problem, which is generally one of insulation. How Stuff Works offers a pretty good non-technical explanation of what ice dams are and why they occur.

If you have ice dams on your house, you need to address them with a two-fold strategy:
First, you need to get rid of the ice dams and minimize the immediate damage.
Your best bet is to hire an experienced professional to do this – it can be a risky task.

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Life has always been unpredictable. Oriental sages compare it to a drop of water on a lotus leaf. You can see the drop now, but in the next instant, you see it slipping off from the waxy surface of the leaf, lost forever. Life is like that. You may be here now, comfortable in your surroundings, reading this article, next moment you may be dead! There can be thousands of reason for that, stress being only one of them.

We all lead a hectic life. We are always under pressure to deliver. We must be the best parent, spouse, employer/employee, friend, and neighbor. Trying to live upto an impossible standard causes irreparable damage to our basic health. It is slowly and silently pushing us to early death.

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To celebrate the new year in style, Puchi Petwear has released a new voucher code giving you 20% off all non-sales items when you buy online before 31st January 2010.

Use voucher code: “aff108?

Expires on: 31/01/2010.

About Puchi Petwear

Puchi Petwear is the leading online pet store for fashionable, designer petwear. Find unique, quality products ranging from clothes, collars, leads, tags, luxury beds and plenty more. S

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Earlier this month I received an email from Melissa, concerned that her cat’s heart murmur might be considered as a pre-existing condition by her insurer. Is it or is it not? Let’s find out…

Hi

We have pet insurance and rescued 2 x 3 year old moggies from a rescue centre at the end of November, when the policy was taken out.

We took them to our local vets on Saturday 9th of January to have their jabs and basic health checks.

We were told that one has a heart murmur. We had no idea anything was wrong and are now worried that our insurance company will treat this as a pre-existing condition if we claim?

Thanks

Melissa

Hi Melissa and thanks for contacting me via pet-insurance-discount.co.uk.

I think it should be covered by your pet insurance company. You to

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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has issued new ratings for children’s auto booster seats. They’ve examined 60 models covering almost all models sold in the U.S. right now, and they’ve issue 9 “best bet” recommendations and 4 “good bet” recommendations. In addition, they’ve indicated 11 products which aren’t aren’t recommended due to poor fit.

IIHS states that more than 1,000 children 12 and younger in passenger vehicles die in crashes every year, and more than 100,000 are injured. Parents can reduce the risk to their kids by properly securing them in the back seat of their vehicle.

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