Your rights

March 31st, 2011

Information about your health is confidential: only the medical knowledge of the insurance medical questionnaires you complete. 

Insurance is required to respond within three weeks and your bank within 2 weeks after your acceptance of the insurance proposal. Any loan refusal related to an insurance issue you must be notified in writing. 

You do not have to choose the insurance offered by your bank if another insurer offers a cheaper insurance with the same guarantees. 

For a mortgage on a principal residence or a business loan, there is aid to pay for insurance if it exceeds the standard rate because of your health. Aeras Convention provides partial coverage for premiums of people with modest incomes.

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Aeras Convention: access to the loan with a health risk

March 29th, 2011

The Convention Aeras (acronym for “ensuring and borrow with an increased risk of health”) was concluded between banks, insurance, patients’ associations and consumer groups and governments.

It entered into force on January 6, 2007 for an initial period of three years.
It aims to facilitate the widest possible access for people with an increased risk of health insurance and credit borrower.
For consumer credit, you can benefit from a life insurance without having to complete a medical health questionnaire if you are under 50 years, the credit period is less than or equal to 4 years, and that the aggregate of all of your consumer credit does not exceed 15,000 euros.

For a home loan or business, you must complete a medical questionnaire.
If the loan does not exceed 300,000 euros and that the timeline ends before your 70 years, your file will automatically be reviewed at a second level by a specialized medical service, then (in case of refusal) to a third level, by Expert medical insurance.
The insurance proposal made in the second or third level may be subject to surcharges and / or exclusions of warranties with respect to a standard contract.

In terms of disability, the agreement provides for a device Aeras to seek the solution or solutions tailored to each case. Insurers have pledged to offer disability insurance as soon as possible, to allow the completion of the loan application.
This insurance must cover at minimum the risk of total and irreversible loss of autonomy.

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The contract and certificate of insurance

March 27th, 2011

Naturally, the more extended warranties are more insurance expensive scooters. In any case, be sure to read the contract to check the value of the franchise, minimum and maximum, and the method of calculating the discount. When requesting quote for scooter insurance it is essential to make clear the amount of the deductible. 
It is forbidden to modify the engine to bypass regulation: in case of accident or simple police check, the offender can be fined and not damages compensation insurance policies usually include clauses exclusion. 
Finally, remember that the insurance certificate must be affixed so as to be visible to law enforcement and that any falsehood or omission may lead to loss of cover taken.

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Insurance against theft

March 25th, 2011

This type of scooter insurance for the theft of the vehicle itself. Regarding the theft of accessories or parts of the scooter and acts of vandalism, they are mostly subject to special conditions. 
Warranty flight is sometimes subject to conditions: the use of a lock approved the use of a car, burning antitheft engine parts are to be met for the guarantee to apply against theft or fire.

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Assistance and legal protection

March 23rd, 2011

Assistance is a component of insurance for scooters that you can be repaired and towed in the event of failure. You and your vehicle will be brought to the dealer nearest to you or any other place of your choice. 
Some require a minimum audience of miles before they occur (on average, insurance companies operate in a radius of 50 km from home), others occur even at the bottom of your home and for a simple flat tire. 
Legal protection is assistance in the pre-court procedures. If you are involved in an accident or if you have a dispute with your dealer or manufacturer, this warranty you will receive advice on procedure.

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The additional guarantees

March 21st, 2011

Other guarantees are optional but strongly recommended by insurers for insurance of scooters. The collision damage on the damage to your scooter. Collision with an identified third party (vehicle, animal, pedestrian), responsible or not, your insurance will cover the cost, subject to the deductible amount in case of fault accident. 
”Damage all types of accidents” or “all risk” insurance is intended to cover all scenarios ranging from a simple fall in an accident with an identified third party or not. 
Guarantee “driver” allows the latter to be reimbursed for medical costs and economic damages from an accident with identified third party or not. The security “equipment” used to replace helmets, gloves, jackets, pants and boots in case of accident, provided they have well preserved bills such equipment. 
If you want to give your scooter to a close, it is mandatory to inform your insurance. On this point, a limited number of insurers guarantees: often, only the spouse of the insured is authorized to drive the scooter.

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La garantie a minimum

March 19th, 2011

The formulas proposed by insurance companies for insurance of scooters include more or less guarantees: up to you to decide what risk should be covered, taking into account your financial options. 
The minimum guarantee for the insurance of civil liability is scooters. On this point, ensure his scooter is a legal requirement and if this clause is not met, you risk a fine or a suspended license. 
The liability covers damage you may cause to third. In case of accident, your insurance will compensate all damage you have caused, including the passenger. 
This insurance also covers damage caused to vehicles or road, but for your own car repairs will be at your expense.

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Comparison rates

March 17th, 2011

Many sites, brokers and companies on insurance you can get an immediate idea of the price to pay for the insurance of motor scooters.
The criteria taken into account in determining an insurance rate are many: among others, the driver’s age, a second driver, if any, type and age of the vehicle, the bonus-malus, the number of contracts the company. Therefore there is no single rate:
- If you are considered “young driver”, the price will be higher, because insurance is estimated that the vehicle will not be fully controlled.
- The younger you are, the higher the price will be high due to the low number of years allowed.
- Tariffs will vary depending on whether you are a man or a woman. The statistics are more accidents among boys, prompting insurers to raise their prices.
- If you do not crash during the year, increase your coefficient of 0.95. The maximum bonus coefficient is 0.50.
- If you have an accident during the year, your factor will be multiplied by 1.25. The penalty strongly influence the insurers. If the penalty coefficient is too high, some even refuse to purchase insurance.
- Insurance will adjust its prices according to the number of cylinders of the vehicle (125 cm3 or more) and price of spare parts. The model is more high-end parts are more expensive, so the higher the price of insurance is high.

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Possible savings

March 15th, 2011

To reduce your home insurance premium, you can however do without unnecessary options, such as reimbursement “replacement cost”.
Indeed, this warranty is limited in time and stop as soon as your furniture and equipment over a certain age: for example, appliances from 5 years and video equipment from 3 years Macif.
For older hardware, the value of this guarantee is therefore very limited.
This clause also requires careful storage of the invoices showing the value and date of your purchase.
To reduce your costs for insurance, also avoid doubling the guarantees with your insurance Automobile insurance or your credit card.

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Air pollution becomes significant trigger of heart attack

March 6th, 2011

Air pollution has grow to be the most significant trigger of heart attack, based on a study published in “Lancet” Wednesday.

Researchers from Belgium and Switzerland analyzed 36 pieces of investigation on heart attack, and calculated the “population-attributable fraction” (PAF) percentages of various triggers.

Air pollution got a highest PAF of 7.4percent, becaming the major trigger to heart attack, followed by physical exertion (6.2percent).

Other triggers included alcohol (5percent), coffee (5percent), negative feelings (three.9percent), anger (3.1percent), eating a heavy meal (two.7percent), optimistic emotions (two.4percent) and sexual activity (two.2percent).

Cyclists in heavy visitors are regarded as within the best danger of heart attack, warned the study team leader Dr. Tim Nawrot from Hasselt University in Belgium.

He created it clear that cyclists are subjecting themselves towards the top two triggers, “polluted air” and “physical exertion”.

Far more than 1.two million heart attacks happen within the Usa every year, in accordance with the National Institutes of Well being.

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Genetically modified fungi kill malaria-causing parasites in mosquitoes: study

March 6th, 2011

Spraying malaria-transmitting mosquitoes with a genetically modified fungus can kill the malaria parasite without having harming the mosquito, potentially reducing malaria transmission to humans, according to a new study published Friday in the journal Science.

Funded by US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses (NIAID), the study was led by Raymond St. Leger, of the University of Maryland, College Park.

An estimated 225 million malaria instances happen worldwide annually, resulting in about 781,000 deaths annually, according to the Globe Wellness Organization. Although the condition is present in 106 countries around the globe, most cases take place in sub-Saharan Africa. Treating bed nets and indoor walls with insecticides will be the major prevention strategy in establishing nations, however the Anopheles mosquitoes that transmit malaria are gradually becoming resistant to these insecticides, rendering them less efficient.

“Because mosquitoes increasingly are evolving to evade the malaria control strategies presently in use, NIAID-supported scientists are testing new, innovative ways to avert malaria that we hope can be developed into tools that can be effective for years to come,” says NIAID Director Anthony Fauci inside a statement.

A single of those new methods is killing Anopheles mosquitoes by spraying them with the naturally occurring fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae. Previous studies have found that this approach almost eliminates condition transmission when mosquitoes are sprayed soon following acquiring the malaria parasite.

Even so, this strategy just isn’t sustainable inside the long term. If treating mosquitoes with all the fungus kills them just before they have a likelihood to reproduce and pass on their susceptibility to the spray, mosquitoes resistant to the fungus, which would reproduce generally, will soon become predominant and also the spray will no longer be effective.

As a result of this, St. Leger and colleagues tried a far more focused strategy. As opposed to building fungi that rapidly kill the mosquito, they genetically modified M. anisopliae to block the development of the malaria parasite in the mosquito.

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The necessary guarantees

March 5th, 2011

In a contract of insurance, each clause is to study closely to avoid disappointment: some essential safeguards should be included and it is your responsibility to ensure their presence to be sure to be well covered.
Thus, all contracts covering the fire, but some are silent damage caused by the storm, lightning or a power surge for electrical equipment.
It should be checked in detail compensation, especially for risks from weather events (storms, hail, snow or frost). Minimum contracts do not support the events recognized by a natural disaster prefectural. However, it is better to choose an extended warranty against such risks.
In terms of water damage, check that infiltration by walls and facades are covered.
In terms of theft, most insurance policies only intervene if the burglars enter through burglary, which excludes robberies by assault.

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