Facebook could invalidate your household claim!!

[bennhoughton]

Are you on Facebook? I bet you put on there when you are out of the house, or when you are going on holiday dont you.....??

I predict that this year you will see some insurers investigating online social networks when looking into claims (much like the police do). Are you wondering why?

Well, each policyholder is duty bound to uphold a certain duty of care to prevent a loss - now if you are telling people publicly that your house is going to be empty for two weeks while you sunbathe in Spain, your insurers may try to argue that you have breached that duty of care....i, being in the industry, can see their point!!


watch this space....

[Dris]

Chancer:)

[NazNomad]

... then you deserve everything you get, imo.

Best to just leave it all on the driveway for 2 weeks, at least they won't need to break your windows.

[Mosaic]

This site was founded to make the same point:
http://pleaserobme.com/

[bennhoughton]

hadnt seen that before!! is a good site, hopefully people shall start to take notice, although i doubt it lol

[mollykins]

I have facebook but I only use it to play scrabble and keep incontact with longlost friends and family.

[cazzz1975]

i dont put that info on fb, how very dare you generalise..

[DTCwordfan]

Please note that BennHoughton is in the industry and that these questions of his border on AB advertising............Dris rumbled this.

[bennhoughton]

again, i put to you how am i advertising????

i am trying to help some of you with the insurance questions you have - if noone answered who knew what they were talking about then you wouldnt be getting the right answers would you????

having not posted links or mentioned my site i have not tried to advertise....

[Dris]

Cheers DT -I did report -not to be awkward but this is a company who have their own interests at heart so its hardly unbiased.

[joko]

a number of times i have had to point out to pals of mine that putting their addresses, numbers, dobs etc on fb is askin for trouble...it hadnt even occured to most not to fill in those boxes when asked

i think fb should either put warnings near those boxes or remove them altogether...ther is no reason at all it should even be asked for...

[DTCwordfan]

see the other insureance thread on Holiday Insurance re the advertising - it isnt direct but its suspicious, esp being Day 1

[bennhoughton]

how do i have my own interests at heart????????????????

I am an insurance broker trying to help people who dont know quite as much about insurance, and have questions and queries?

bless ya's

[NazNomad]

I saw this and immediately tried to sign up to be insured by the OP.

Oh wait, no mention of a company, or indeed a link to it. Ah, must not actually be advertising anything then.

Maybe, just maybe, someone making a valid point?

[DTCwordfan]

and answering your own questions, Naz?

[bennhoughton]

thank you Naz

[Mick-Talbot]

Thank you ben, I am immediately going to remove my address from FB.
Can I also say to my dodgy FB friends, I was only joking about going away for the weekend.

[Dris]

Didnt have you down as a mug either Naz....oops wait it was me who made the connection......its me who is the mug -what would you do if you didnt have me to practise your sarcasm on??? (save yourself the bother of racking your brain for a witty retort)

[NazNomad]

Reported ^^

[bennhoughton]

no problem Mick