{"id":18,"date":"2011-02-15T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T15:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-02-20T18:55:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T18:55:42","slug":"so-you-think-youre-insured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"So you think you&#8217;re insured?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A cautionary tale from a Horsington couple.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A leaking oil tank is everyone\u2019s nightmare. Especially when the authorities treat the accidental perpetrators like mass murderers, at least at the outset. A large bill for the over-the top-clean-up for even a modest spillage like this is guaranteed, but not to worry, it\u2019s all covered by insurance. Or is it?<\/p>\n<p>A well-known 3-letter insurance company (motto: re-defining standards \u2013 and how!) insured the couple.<br \/>\nThey were surprised to discover that not only did the insurance company refuse the claim, but that they had never been insured. Why? Because their house was <em>within a quarter of a mile of a watercourse*<\/em>. The company has gallantly offered to repay their premiums from the start of insurance.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a big fight going on, but in the meantime the rest of Horsington and South Cheriton had better check their policies. Most of the houses in both villages are close to a stream. And beware of buying insurance on line.<\/p>\n<p>* Not 25 metres, as stated in an earlier edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Horsington couple discovered to their horror that they had never been insured, as their house was close to a stream<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}