Insurance Articles, Editorials and News from Top Quote Online
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Prostate Cancer
published on the 6th June 2008
“Prostate cancer, like most cancers, is caused by the uncontrolled and otherwise 'disorderly' growth of cells in and on the prostate gland. In the majority of cases this is a slow developing cancer and so victims may not notice any symptoms for quite...” read more
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Drop Your Positive Attitude?
published on the 5th June 2008
“A group of medical researchers in Melbourne, Australia, presented findings at a major medical conference in Chicago recently debunking the idea that a positive mental attitude helps fight cancer. Although the researchers acknowledged that their...” read more
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Scared by Statistics?
published on the 5th June 2008
“We are constantly bombarded with statistics telling us how likely we are to lose our jobs, contract critical illnesses or get hit by cars, even in these articles we've been guilty of doing that. Is it a bad thing? Well, yes and no. Statistics are...” read more
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Payment Protection Insurance Overcharges
published on the 4th June 2008
“The Competition Commission has revealed that consumers are being overcharged to the tune of £1.4 billion a year for payment protection insurance (PPI). Peter Davis, the Competition Commission's inquiry chairman has said: “We've found...” read more
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Killing for Insurance Money
published on the 4th June 2008
“It surely need not be said that life insurance cover is there to help families in times of unexpected crisis. It is not a means to ‘get rich quick’ through murder. This fundamental point seemed to have slipped passed Fadri Nasri, a...” read more
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Sending Jobs to India
published on the 3rd June 2008
“The marketplace is blind and profits counts for everything if a company is to compete and survive. This is the mantra of capitalism and the free market, and love them or loathe them they form the economic model of our economic system. So when a...” read more
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Contrasting Feelings of Job Security in Scotland and Wales
published on the 3rd June 2008
“Having recorded the views of 1,605 potential job seekers across the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, new research expressed in a recruitment survey by TMP Worldwide shows that compared to the 55% of people working in Wales and...” read more
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Improving Job Security
published on the 2nd June 2008
“Insurance is far from the only form of security out there. Getting yourself an income protection policy is certainly a good idea, but it is an example of would could be referred to as negative security - security that comes from preparing for the...” read more
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Injuries to the Spinal Chord
published on the 2nd June 2008
“Spinal chord injuries (SCI's) are any injuries that damage the spinal chord in such a way as to cause loss of control or feeling in a part of the body. Made from neurons (nerve cells that control sensory and motor functions) the spinal chord is a...” read more
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Traumatic Brain Damage
published on the 1st June 2008
“Brain damage, however it happens, is essentially the destruction and/or degeneration of brain cells. The brain can be damaged through all sorts of reasons, ranging from illnesses, alcohol abuse and poisoning, to strokes, traumatic injuries and...” read more
