insuring the house
Ethical insurance I required house insurance and decided I wanted to find an ethical supplier, I had never previously heard of any ethical insurers except for bicycle insurance companies, but; I knew for certain! that many of my previous insurers were just affiliations of one of the big banks, they would therefore be non-ethical, being an environmentalist, I no longer wanted to be part of these planet killers Due to climate change, there has been a dramatic worldwide increase in So-called natural disasters, this has required insurers to make huge pay-outs, the rate of which has been doubling every decade. One report in 2002 warned that more frequent natural disasters in future could bring insurers, re-insurers and banks ‘to the point of impaired viability or even insolvency’. The insurance companies usually offset their potential liabilities by trading some of the premium (like a bookie ‘off-setting’ a large bet with another bookie) with a re-insurance company. Many of these companies...