FEMA Flood Safety #riskymonday

Flooding causes damage and destruction nationwide each year. There are a few common sense actions you can take to keep loves ones and possessions safe when waters rise. This week FEMA teaches us about flood safety and preparation tips.

Check out the video and share your thoughts by commenting below or on Twitter using the hashtag #riskymonday.

#riskymonday, brought to you by Bankers Insurance Group, covers one important video highlighting the risks we face each week.

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Cheapest travel insurance: Annual policies from £12

Each year holidays are ruined by illness or robbery or even the sudden need to return home because someone else is ill.

There’s no legal requirement for you to have insurance when you travel abroad but if you find yourself in a situation like that you’ll bless the day you took a policy out.

And with competition within the industry growing fiercer, prices have tumbled. Annual policies for Europe start at 12 while worldwide cover begins from as little as 20.

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Running a small business you may need to have life insurance

The majority of people believes that life insurance is necessary only for their families and themselves. They want financial security for the future. They do not realize that their small business requires life insurance too.

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Live updates from Google Maps

Google Maps is quite useful when it comes to estimating journey times, miles, and petrol costs, but if you’re giving your car a rest, don’t fancy walking, and think there might be train delays, what do you do?

Well Google has teamed up with thetrainline.com and released a new route planner which has live updates and information about 170,000 rail timetables, 2,500 rail stations, 8,000 bus stop timetables, and 250 London Underground stations.

It works the same way as before, but now there’s a lot more information so planning a journey is easier and you’re less likely to be late to your destination.
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Aust Insurers ‘gouging’ Since Queensland Floods

Australian insurers who have dramatically raised their premiums since the Queensland floods are guilty of `gouging’ customers, Premier Anna Bligh says.

In one case, the North Burnett Council was asked to pay 65 per cent more to insure its property – a rise of almost A$100,000 (US$102,605) compared to last year.

The Premier said some insurance companies were being unfair.

“It is clear that some insurance companies are increasing at a rate that I think is beyond reasonable,” she told reporters in Cairns on Monday.

“Some insurance companies are lifting rates by such a high level it can only be described as gouging.”

Ms Bligh said Queenslanders should seek out insurance companies who had helped customers during the floods and Cyclone Yasi.

“What we learnt last year is that not all insurance companies are the same – some went out of their way to help their clients, others went out of their way to make it harder.

“I just say to people … if your company is lifting your rates to ridiculous levels, shop around. There are insurance

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