Insurers stress the importance of motor insurance applicants providing accurate information especially with respect to who is the main driver of an insured vehicle.
Motor Insurers’ Bureau and Aviva describe fronting as the act of parents insuring their child’s car in their own name to significantly lower the cost. The organisations are quick to emphasise that it is actually illegal to do this.
Ashton West of MIB stated: “There is a lot of confusion amongst drivers about the importance of giving accurate information about the main driver to an insurer.” With as many as 70% of those polled unaware of the problems associated with fronting this appears to be true.
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The over 50s often seen as avoiding hi-tech aids appear to be adopting them in great numbers.
Although it must be noted that they are the most responsible when it comes to using hand-held devices when driving (12 % compared with 33% of 18-34 year olds –the worst offenders)
The insurer, Saga, feels that in this age bracket 31% of drivers are finding hands-free aids a distraction. This brings cause for concerned when paired with the findings released by Saga that 32% of over-50s use sat nav systems and a further 20% use cruise control systems whilst driving.
In addition Andrew Goodsell, of Saga, commented: “Installing high-tech gadgets, or leaving personal possessions such as mobiles and laptops in the car is an attraction to thieves, so we are urging people to make sure they keep high value items out of sight and to check they have adequate insurance cover,” so there is a great need for car insurance.
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My dad recently came to me annoyed that the program he bought (a DTP program called PagePlus) which the salesperson had told him could edit PDF files could only save in the format.
I got on the case to find a suitable product. Adobe’s own Acrobat is particularly expensive and so I would advise users to familiarise themselves with the number of third party editors available in the $100 (£60-£70) price range.
There are a lot of products out there and having used a plethora of fully-working free trials my favourites are NitroPDF and InfixPDF Pro.
Users of the Microsoft Office Suite 2007 will be familiar with the layout of NitroPDF offering; however, it was really Infix that shone.
I loved the ease with which graphics, text etc could be added, moved around and edited.
The products both offer similar features (Insert, extract, delete, resize, rotate pages etc.) however I really found the controls of InfixPro PDF to be more intuitive.
The functionality of Infix beat NitroPDF and given that they are both similarly priced I would go for InfixPDF.
My pick: InfixPro PDF editor