BRITAIN’S MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS ARE … BOXER DOG PUPPIES.

GADGET-COVER.COM

MOBILE PHONE & GADGET INSURANCE

PRESS RELEASE

May 22, 2012.

BRITAIN’S MOST DANGEROUS ANIMALS ARE … BOXER DOG PUPPIES.

It’s official – Britain’s most dangerous animals are boxer dog puppies.

That’s the finding of www.gadget-cover.com, the UK’s longest-established mobile phone and electronic gadget insurance provider, which says that the combined teeth and slobber content of a boxer chewing on a mobile phone are fatal – to the phone.

“Puppies, generally, are the animals most cited when claims are made for pet-inflicted damage to mobile phones, iPods, satnavs and other electronic gadgets – but breeds such as boxers, which slobber more than most, result in more moisture damage, which is generally fatal for a phone,” said Carmi Korine of Gadget-Cover.

Puppies chewing on phones are the most common claim, followed by cats chasing them around table tops before knocking them on to hard floors. Wagging dog tails also do their fair share of damage by launching gadgets across rooms from low surfaces, but some claims are difficult to prove.

“We’ve had claims for people who say their snake has swallowed a phone, while others have claimed their parrots have cracked phone screens or peeled off covers, and we have had a claim that a pet monkey stole a phone and in playing with it ended up dialling a number in South America which stayed connected until the battery ran out, and ran up a bill of hundreds of pounds.

“We were speculating that he was phoning home.”

Of animal-related claims made in the first four months of 2012, these were the most frequent:

1. Puppies chewing phones or gadgets, 29%.
2. Adult dogs fetching phones for owners, 22%.
3. Dogs knocking phones onto hard surfaces or into liquid, 19%
4. Cats knocking phones onto hard surfaces, 13%.
5. Incidents involving horses, 9%.
6. Incidents involving fish tanks, 6%.
7. Other, 2%.

www.gadget-cover.com is part of Supercover Insurance, the UK’s longest-established insurer of mobile phones and high-intrinsic-value consumer electronics. Launched in 1995, the company offers theft, loss and damage insurance, as well as up to 3GB gadget content backup, for laptops, PCs, satellite navigation equipment, MP3 players including iPods, and other such communication, storage and gaming equipment.

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Further information:

Iain Macauley

im@pressrelations.co.uk

07788 978800

www.gadget-cover.com

PHONE DROWNINGS UP AS SQUABBLING COUPLES, WORKAHOLICS AND STROPPY PUB LANDLORDS DROWN 430,000 MOBILE PHONES A YEAR.

GADGET-COVER.COM

MOBILE PHONE & GADGET INSURANCE

PRESS RELEASE

April 23, 2012.

PHONE DROWNINGS UP AS SQUABBLING COUPLES, WORKAHOLICS AND STROPPY PUB LANDLORDS DROWN 430,000 MOBILE PHONES A YEAR.

Squabbling couples, prankster colleagues, children and stroppy bar staff are responsible for nearly 430,000 insurance claims a year in the UK for mobile phones being dropped in drinks.

www.gadget-cover.com  the UK’s longest-established mobile phone insurance provider, estimates around 30,000 more claims for phone dunkings were made in 2011-12 financial year compared to 2009-2010.

Gadget-Cover asked a cross-section of customers how their phones ended up being drowned, and there’s been a slight change in reasons for water-, wine- and beer-logging.

“For men, the main cause remains stretching across a desk or table and their phone falling out of their shirt pocket into a drink, or a phone being knocked into a drink during a meeting – people wave their arms around in meetings, often with a phone in their hand, and some contrive to lose grip on their phones and get a bull’s-eye on a cup of tea or coffee they could never manage if they tried,” said Carmi Korine of www.gadget-cover.com.

“For women, the main cause is a child, toddler or baby playing with a phone that they drop into a cup or glass, but with an emerging trend for children to wash phones they’ve gooped, or to put them in washing machines.

“Those are the two single biggest causes at around 40% each (170,000 each, 340,000 total) – primarily because more people have more phones, and have them in their hands more of the time; but there is a fall-off in phone rage or phone envy when the owner of the phone is not directly responsible for it finding its way into a drink – down from around 45,000 to around 36,500.

“Arguments between couples have resulted in a doubling in the number of phones being dropped into drinks deliberately – up to 11,000 a year compared to 5,500 a year in 2009. Working on holiday, or simply working too hard are other issues – that’s also doubled to around 2,000 incidents of that nature.

“Office parties and drinking sessions with work colleagues can result in an ever-ringing phone being dropped in a pint, and we do get quite a few claims when a client or customer has dropped a supplier or adviser’s phone in a drink because they keep answering it during meetings – if we gross up our claims levels pro-rata nationally, then this would equate to around 2,000 claims.

“People ‘posing’ or showing off their phones, or talking embarrassingly loud in bars or restaurants resulted in around a thousand incidences of snatch-and-dunk.

“But at least once a day a stroppy pub landlord will take a phone off a customer and drop it in a drink – usually in the north, and usually because the pub has a phone ban.”

The remainder of claims arise from phones being left on table tops and being drowned in spreading pools of spilt drinks, phones left in bags with leaky drinks containers, or unexplained incidents in which phones are swamped.

www.gadget-cover.com is part of Supercover Insurance, the UK’s longest-established insurer of mobile phones and high-intrinsic-value consumer electronics. Launched in 1995, the company offers theft, loss and damage insurance, as well as up to 3GB gadget content backup, for laptops, PCs, satellite navigation equipment, MP3 players including iPods, and other such communication, storage and gaming equipment.

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Further information:

Iain Macauley

im@pressrelations.co.uk

07788 978800

www.gadget-cover.com

SUPERCOVER INSURANCE LAUNCHES PERSONAL EMERGENCY COVER POLICY FOR RESELLERS.

SUPERCOVER INSURANCE

MOBILE PHONE & GADGET INSURANCE

PRESS RELEASE

February 27, 2012.

SUPERCOVER INSURANCE LAUNCHES PERSONAL EMERGENCY COVER POLICY FOR RESELLERS.

Supercover Insurance, www.supercoverinsurance.com, has launched a personal emergency cover policy which is available for resellers to offer to customers and clients.

“HelpMeOut!” is a concierge service which can be a stand-alone product or added to existing Supercover products such as Gadget Cover, Handbag Cover, Tools Cover or Bicycle Cover.

RRP is £1.25 a month or £15 a year, with a highly competitive ongoing commission.

HelpMeOut! Provides cancellation and replacement of debit and credit cards in case of loss or theft, arranges a locksmith in case of lost or stolen keys, replaces car or house keys, reports and blacklists a lost or stolen mobile phone to the network provider, arranges transportation in case of lost or stolen car keys or wallet or any similar emergency, and makes family and friends aware of the emergency situation.

London-based Supercover Insurance is the UK’s longest-established insurer of mobile phones and high-intrinsic-value consumer electronics. Launched in 1995, the company offers theft, loss and damage insurance, as well as up to 3GB gadget content backup, for laptops, PCs, satellite navigation equipment, MP3 players including iPods, and other such communication, storage and gaming equipment.

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Further information:

Iain Macauley

im@pressrelations.co.uk

07788 978800

www.supercoverinsurance.com