If an area presents a high risk, insurers may enact an “embargo”. This means htat unless you arrange insurance well in advance of your trip, you may not be able to get cover at all. Austbrokers Terrace has a tool for arranging simple travel insurance – click here to try it now. Should you still […]
A BIG WEEK AT THE FOOTY
The team at Austbrokers Terrace extend their congratulations, best wishes and support to the Crows tonight and the Power on Sunday, as they begin their finals campaign in the hope of lifting the Premiership Cup aloft in early October. For any parochial South Australian football follower you would quickly recognise the first paragraph as pure […]
TRAVEL INSURANCE: WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU CAN’T PAY YOUR MEDICAL
Austbrokers Terrace are proud to offer an extremely competitive Travel Insurance online purchase system. As always, please feel free to contact us if we can be of any assistance. Travel Insurance is very affordable, but the consequences of being caught without are not! RANI Vincent was young, fit and looking forward to the snowboarding adventure […]
AUSTRALIA’S WORST DRIVERS REVEALED
A survey from fleet management firm TomTom Telematics has found that sports car and SUV drivers are considered the worst on Australian roads. The survey questioned 1,000 Australians with a valid driving license to identify the worst drivers across the country. Thirty-two per cent of those surveyed identified sports car and SUV drivers. Truck drivers […]
BROKER OR DIRECT: A SIMPLE CHOICE… OR IS IT?
The “Broker or Direct Insurer” argument may not be as simple as it seems… Whether one refers to it as Retail insurance, Domestic insurance or simply Home & Motor, there have existed two paths a customer can go down to arrange cover. Namely the broker (intermediary market) or the direct market (all those companies that […]
CYBER INSURANCE – A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Cyber Liability & Cyber Crime – more valuable than we realise? For any insurance customer, particularly business owners, there is a proliferation of articles to consume about the urgent necessity to protect your business against the growing criminal epidemic that is cyber-crime. For any individual, it is difficult to know where to start. Questions one […]
HOW TROPICAL STORM HARVEY IS FEEDING ITSELF AND WREAKING DEV...
With increasingly dramatic weather patterns worldwide, it’s never too late to review your insurance for flood & storm. Want some help? Contact us now! Storm Crisis in the United States At a little over half the size of Tropical Cyclone Debbie, Harvey is not the largest tropical storm the world has seen this year. […]
FAKE EMAILS CATCH OUT TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
A must-read about Cyber! A White House cyber security official, and several prominent members of the Trump team, have fallen victim to a phishing email fraudster. A self-described ‘email prankster’ convinced several senior members of the White House to think he was other officials and has published his exploits online. The prankster posed as ex-White […]
WHAT INFORMATION DOES AN INSURER NEED AT CLAIM TIME?
Hopefully, you haven’t been in a position where you’ve had to make too many insurance claims. However, things can go wrong and your insurer is there to help in these circumstances. If you’re not familiar with making a claim, you might be a little confused as to what information your insurer will need […]
HOW TO STOP YOUR BUSINESS BEING HELD TO RANSOM
It starts innocuously enough. You receive an email from a colleague; just the regular kind of short message they’re always sending and a link to an article they thought you’d like. But when you click on it, your troubles start. It’s not The Australian or The New York Times that you’re taken to Discover more here. Source: […]
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