Total Insurance Blog

Spring is here and warmer weather is on the way. If you’ve had your motorcycle in storage during winter, we hope you took advantage of insurance winter layaway discounts. it’s a good way to maintain essential
limited coverage and save money on motorcycle insurance. Keep it in mind next season before you store you bike.

Now that you’re ready to ride again, contact your insurance company to reinstate full coverage. While you’ve got them on the phone, make any necessary updates to your policy such as a new address,
additional people using your bike and any custom parts and new equipment you added over the winter.

You might also want to consider beefing up your policy this year. If you

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If you have been doing your research, just like you should if you are looking for insurance, you might have come across the term PPS insurance. This short article aims to describe just what PPS insurance actually is and who’s eligible to apply.

PPS is short for The Professional Provident Society of South Africa. They mainly market their goods to the graduates of our nation. One of their products is insurance, hence PPS insurance.

Let us examine what PPS stands for – Professional Provident Society.

Firstly, we have professional. This means that in order to qualify, you must be a professional. Being a professional entails having at least four years of tertiary education, so basically the equivalent of an honours degree. Read full article…

When we were first looking at pet insurance 10 years ago, I analyzed the average total vet billfor a mixed breeddog by age to see what it would look like and here it is.

Interesting dont you think?

Whats even more interesting is that the average total vet bill does not include wellness visits! The vaccinations, spay and neuter and puppy wellness checks are not included.

So while you might have thought it might make sense for a puppy to have a lot of vet bills in its early years because of all the shots she has to have, this graph does not include those costs.

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Have you noticed friends and neighbors bringing in new cats and dogs into their families lately? Perhaps you are planning on adopting a dog or buying a kitten from a breeder?

Its that time of year when many people do add new pets to their family and we are going to talk about different considerations when you do bring a new pet into your home.

Consideration number one, after taking your new dog or cat to the vet, is to get pet insurance. Do it before your pet has a health issue, which could be tomorrow.

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I dont normally stray too much from pet health and pet insurance discussions in this blog, but since I passionately believe business leaders need to understand the financials of their businesses to be successful, I dont mindthesidebarin this case.

Nicole Fendehelps small businesses reach their profit goals and learn how to effectively and enjoyably run the financial side of their business. Nicole also happens to be an actuary and we met when she recruited me to talk in a webinar and then panel discussion on how actuaries can follow the Society of Actuaries Code of Conduct when changing actuarial careers (I know, riveting stuff, but we were the most lively panel at the AGM – we know how to have fun)

Nicole has written a book How to be a Finance Rock Star!

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