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When Elizabeth Gilbert traveled the world looking for food, spirituality and romance for her book, “Eat, Pray, Love” she encountered various unexpected situations, some of them gastronomical. If she needed anything to help her with her tour, it would have been travel medical insurance.

While we don’t know whether she did purchase insurance, because the trip was all about soul-searching, her expansive itinerary with an incidental trip back to the U.S. meant

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Couples planning to invest in wedding insurance and begin organising their big day may be interested in a new nuptial competition being launched by two famous faces.

The Basingstoke Gazette reports how Lydia Bright and James Argent of The Only Way is Essex (Towie) are set to unveil the event on February 11th.

A wedding package worth more than £15,000 will be up for grabs, with anyone due to tie the knot in the near future eligible to enter.

The prize will include a reception for 50 people, a honeymoon, a cake, dresses, rings, as well as bridal hair and makeup.

Those keen to enter need to be attend the event at Festival Place shopping centre, which is also where the winning couple will be announced on April 29th.

Argent and Bright are joined in the hit reality TV series by Lauren Goodger, Chloe Sims, Joey Essex and Mark Wright.

The network has reached an agreement with six providers – Ageas, Aviva, Friends Life, Legal & General, LV= and PruProtect – to offer their products on the Integrity panel.

It will feature enhanced commission rates with no loaded premiums for the end client and targeted sales training with dedicated support to help them maximise sales.

The panel has been scheduled to launch in November and members will receive an information pack with further details.

“We envisage that the new panel will provide an extra impetus for our members to continue to develop protection as a core offering to their clients,” said Dev Malle, sales and marketing director at Personal Touch.

“Every player is offering the two and four year indemnity option with Aviva offering a three year option.

“We’re also working with our panel partners to develop models to help our members build sustainable businesses by being able to gradually move towards renewal income instead of being hooked on the indemnity drug.

“We’ve also insisted that there are no loaded premiums,” he added.

My car insurance renewed automatically at the end of November. It was with Lloyds TSB the previous year, and I had been told via letters that they were changing to a company called BISL. I could not believe it when my December direct debit came out of my account and, compared to the £40 I’d been paying, it had shot up to a whopping £230.

I called BISL today and yes, apparently my premium has jumped to more than £2,500. I had been sent no correspondence about the change in my premium and was given no chance to refuse such a hefty price. I

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One of the travel trends that have risen through the years is adventure sports (with travel medical insurance helping to take care of that little nagging feeling of insecurity). While activities such as bungee jumping and skydiving were earlier on the itinerary of only the most intrepid traveler, many more are attempting these now.

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Fans of Paul McCartney, who are looking to invest in wedding insurance, may be interested to hear the singer is to release a song he wrote for his nuptials.

Entitled My Valentine, the track is said to be an ode to his new wife Nancy Shevell and was performed by the singer at his big day, the Daily Mirror reports.

Despite having tied the knot twice previously, it seems McCartney believes he has found the one in Ms Shevell as the tune includes the lyric “Ill love her for life”.

McCartney, who married and later divorced Heather Mills upon the death of his first wife Linda McCartney, exchanged vows with Ms Shevell in October.

The couple had a low-key ceremony at Marylebone Register Office and posed for photographers outside the venue after saying I do.

My Valentines lyrics suggest McCartney was concerned he would not find love again after splitting from Mills.

According to latest figures from the FSA, £220m was paid out in September to customers complaining about being previously mis-sold the product.

This took the overall total to £776m.

September’s figure is slightly below the August high of £239m and although still significantly higher than other months, it potentially indicates that the peak may have been reached.

However the pain may not yet be over yet, as earlier this month the Financial Ombudsman Service announced it was considering increasing its levies to the industry as a result of a spike in PPI claims.

The ombudsman said it had seen claims rise climb from less than 1,000 per week to over 3,000 in recent months.

During your insurance marketing presentation, ask your customer what he or she is looking for. A low rate? A local agent? Just to compare rates? Or something in the coverage he or she hasn’t gotten before?

Once you have an idea of what the customer’s chief priority is, you can craft your presentation with a focus on that topic. That way, you can avoid the customer’s later objections altogether. Any q

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