Every year about 600 men in New Zealand die of Prostate Cancer.
Why so many?
Because men don’t know how dangerous the disease is, they don’t talk to their doctor about it, and, basically… they simply don’t do anything about it, period.
That’s what Blue September is about… promoting awareness about the dangers of prostate cancer and about early diagnosis to increase your chances of beating it.
Did you know that the death rate from Prostate Cancer in New Zealand could be halved by men having regular health and prostate checks from age 40 onwards? What this m
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According to information collected by InsWeb, the median car insurance rate for women is about 9% lower than the rate for men.
The national median rate for women is $698 for a six-month policy. For men, it’s $765.
Why do women pay less on average for car insurance than men? The answer may lie in the differences between the men and women that shop online for insurance, rather than the way insurers actually view the genders.
To learn more, check out the complete article on InsWeb.com: Women Pay Less than Men for Car Insurance
To read more about this topic, check out these excellent posts from Cars.com and the San Francicso Business Times:
Cars.com Kicking Tires Blog
Steve Brown at SF Business Times
To shop online for car insurance quotes, visit InsWeb.com.
In the US it is mandatory for every car owner and driver to have auto insurance coverage so much so that premiums are a part of monthly expenditure. As such, many insurance policy seekers look for alternative insurance policies which while providing similar protection coverage are also more affordable as there will be a significant reduction in the insurance policy costs. But this special type of insurance is slightly different from the usual main stream insurance packages in terms of discounts offered and premiums as they are not applicable to all but only to a particular segment of the population.
There are special auto insurance coverage packages exclusively for women.
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Most travel insurance plans include travel delay coverage. This reimburses expenses when a traveler is delayed for a certain amount of time, anywhere from 5 – 24 hours, depending on the plan. Travelex recently wrote about this benefit in their agent newsletter.
Whether it is a hurricane, earthquake or blizzard that delays your clients’ travels, you can provide them the peace of mind they need when an unexpected delay sidetracks their trip.
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Theres a crisis in this country of people being un- or under-insured. The majority of adult Americans do not own an individual life insurance policy, according to LIMRA International. I place a bit of the blame on the industry itself, which may have lost sight of the real reason people buy life insurance. Some agents and advisors will sit down and talk a blue streak about life insurance in terms of numbers and percentages, and then whip out fancy illustration charts to explain to you why its an important financial instrument to own.
While those numbers matter, there really is only one very basic reason to own life insurance: because you love people and want to make sure that they are taken care of financially if the worst were to happen to you.
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