Category Archive For "Insurance"
Does Health Insurance Make You Live Longer?
Intrinsically, the answer has to be no, doesn’t it? After all, our health is a result of countless factors ranging from our genetics, upbringing, lifestyle, environment and even geography. And it is health care, not health insurance, which has led to humans living longer, healthier lives over the past few centuries. So it should seem …
Top 8 Life Insurance Myths Debunked
There is a wealth of conflicting information published on life insurance, so it’s easy to see how widespread misconceptions can arise. We delve into some of the most common myths about life insurance in order to separate fact from fiction:
Can I Really Insure That? The Bizarre World of Specialty Insurance
Pacific Prime looks into the bizarre world of specialty insurance, exploding a few urban myths along the way. When it comes to insurance policies, there are a few essential types of policy every adult should hold, such as life insurance, health insurance and car insurance. For the majority of us, these will provide more than …
Darwinian Insurance Distribution
“The fool will burn his hand twice on a hot pan handle, the stupid three times, and the imbecile changes hands.” – John R. Thornton In today’s world of cars, health, lives, pets, and properties, it seems everything is or can be insured against one thing or another. Insurance can be defined as the equitable …
Hong Kong Ferry Tragedy Leaves 38 Dead. Confusion Remains on Compensation Claims
China’s 8 day “golden week” national holiday is one of Hong Kong’s biggest holiday periods of the year, when tourists, predominantly from the mainland, swarm into Hong Kong, more than doubling the city’s population of seven million. It all centers around National Day, held on the 1st of October, celebrating the founding of the People’s …
Innovation Meets Fashion in China as Locals Stay Protected on the Beach
When I was a kid, the world was a much less complicated place. Coca Cola used to advertise that “Coke adds life” and Camel cigarettes made you cool. Kids played outside, rode their bikes without helmets and if it was really hot, we wore a hat. Oh how things have changed. No longer can Coca …
The 7 most dangerous places to travel to without insurance
Even when travelling abroad required months spent on a horse, at sea, or on a train, there would always be those willing to commit to the adventure. Today, with air travel speeding things up somewhat, many more people than ever before have been bitten by the travel bug and it’s now pretty hard to find …
6 of the Strangest Insurance Policies Ever (and 10 extras)
If you thought Jennifer Lopez insuring her gluteus maximus for over one billion dollars was weird, then you are in for a handful of surprises… The insurance industry is likely thought of as traditional, stern, and commercialized, which is fair enough, judging by the aspects of risk that it deals with. However, this is not …
10 Wacky Insurance Claims
We have all heard some of the most ridiculous items and ‘prized possessions’ that people will insure. A quick scan of the internet will show you that most musicians, celebrities and quirky millionaires insure voices, body parts or unusual possessions for countless millions of dollars. Strange insurance for “normal” people ranges for coverage for alien …
