Insurance with overseas companies?

cormie

Hi,
I've been looking into getting courier insurance for a van but so far I've only got one company who will quote me, and it's about 5x more expensive than my car insurance:eek:

Does anyone know of any overseas companies that insure Irish drivers and more specifically, couriers vans?

If insurance is cheaper overseas, as we know it's very high here, why don't more people get insured by overseas companies?

Stephen

You can't get insured in ireland by a foreign company.

cormie

Really? It's that straightforward:( I thought a guy I know said he was insured with a British company

zAbbo

Stephen wrote:

You can't get insured in ireland by a foreign company.

What about Axa They're french aren't that.

Stephen

You know what I mean. They actively trade in Ireland under an Irish subsidiary, much like Allianz, ze Germans.

Guy:Incognito

Yeah , my uncles an insurance broker in Germany and he looked into it for me. You can be insured by a foreign company here, but as Stephen says they have to have a working office here. So a company isnt going to have an office here, yet not take advantage of the prices chanrged here.

cormie

Thanks for clearing that up everyone, not what I wanted to hear but anyway:o