Loan insurance can be a valuable lifeline if the worst thing should happen and you are unable to work due to involuntary unemployment, an accident or prolonged sickness. A policy will cover you for a specific amount of money and for a period of time, usually around 12 months, sometimes up to 24 months, which means that you would be able to continue to met the monthly repayments on a loan, credit card or other borrowing. However it can only be a valuable lifeline if you have purchased the policy correctly.
Policies have exclusions within them and these are usually hidden in the small print, so unless you specifically read the small print, they can go unnoticed. This could mean that if you try to claim for something that is excluded, then you simply wont get paid and will have wasted the premiums as well as have the financial worry of how to cope. Unfortunately the majority of people buy a policy alongside their loan or credit card from their and do not bother to read the small print, believing that they have bought a policy they are eligible to claim on.
In order to get the right policy for you, then it is essential that you shop around go with an independent...