Critical Illness Insurance Buying Online
Thursday, September 2nd, 2004You can buy pretty much everything over the Internet these days and this most certainly applies to insurance. But the process of buying something over the telephone or Internet means that you do not have the benefit of having a person in front of you to explain something in depth if you do not understand.
Another thing is that as a growing number of people begin to start buying products online, there are new problems that occur - teething problems shall we say that keep cropping up as more companies start offering services over the Internet for the first time.
With complex insurance policies like Critical Illness Insurance, a type of insurance where sometimes people do not fully understand exactly what they are buying, it is an area that could become a problem.
The Association of British Insurers thinks so anyway, which is why the organisation is improving the standards of the insurance application process via the telephone or the Internet for different types of health and protection (more...)
