A fascinating fact about the music festival season is that three out of four people attending them lose possessions while there according to Zurich Insurance.
The study carried out by Zurich found that the typical value of items taken to music festivals by people is over GBP260. The most commonly taken possessions include mobile phones, cameras and MP3 players. The majority of items that go missing are simply left behind, in tents or in bags, with only 10 percent of them being stolen.
Good advice from Zurich Insurance is for festivalgoers to check with their home contents insurer that they will be covered at the festival they are attending. This way at least the financial aspect of losing personal possessions will be dealt with.
Over 22 percent of families with children under five have had toys taken from outside their homes according to a Halifax home insurance survey.
The most common item to be taken was a childs bicycle, making up almost 1 in 5 of all home insurance claims from those surveyed. Prams and buggies were also a popular target for thieves, no doubt driven by the costs of such items being quite high. The advice from the Halifax insurance people is to put items away safely when not in use, using a garden shed or bringing them into the house.
A Halifax spokesman understood the potential difficulties of being able to put everything away at some times, especially during the Summer when children are in and out of the house all day, but it is worth doing to avoid the psychological stresses it can cause, even if they have contents insurance in place to cover the financial cost.
According to Lloyds TSB home insurance division home workers ought to check they have adequate cover in place to avoid trouble in case of a claim.
According to official data around 3 million people work from home, sixty percent of whom are self employed. This is over ten percent of the total workforce in the UK. The important point Lloyds TSB insurance want to make is that work related materials may not be covered by a regular home insurance policy so it is important to check the details.
As the Lloyds TSB MD said, home based businesses and working from home generally are growing in popularity so it vital that a real understanding of different policies is needed.
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