Insurance is big business in the UK. According to the Association of British Insurers in 2014 the UK general insurance industry (i.e. everything except life insurance) received worldwide net premiums of £50.2bn and paid out on claims worth £32.1bn. 74% of UK households have motor insurance and an average annual household spend of £680.
[reference https://www.abi.org.uk/globalassets/sitecore/files/documents/publications/public/2014/key-facts/abi-key-facts-2014.pdf ]
Car insurance is not something we normally laugh about. The law requires that we have it, whether we want to pay for it or not. However, several companies such as confused.com and Compare the Market have created almost viral marketing campaigns. Who doesn’t want an adorable cuddly Oleg the Meerkat toy?
Better than that, insurers deal with so many claims (paying out on average £17m per day) that there are inevitably going to be a few that make us giggle (whether true or not!):
“I started to slow down but the traffic was more stationary than I thought.”
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“I started to turn and it was at this point I noticed a camel and an elephant tethered at the verge. This distraction caused me to lose concentration and hit a bollard.”
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“The gentleman behind me struck me on the backside. He then went to rest in a bush with just his rear end showing.”
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“On the M6 I moved from the centre lane to the fast lane but the other car didn’t give way.”
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“An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my car and vanished.”
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“Windscreen broken. Cause unknown. Probably voodoo.”
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“The accident was caused by me waving to the man I hit last week.”
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“I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother-in- law and headed over the embankment.”
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