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Andy Warner

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Mar 29, 2000, 3:00:00 AM3/29/00
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Colin Curtis and Partners have a web site at www.curtismarine.co.uk
you can get quotes on all sorts of marine related cover.


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Rainer Thonnes

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Apr 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/5/00
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In article <954341452.14038.0...@news.demon.co.uk>,

"Andy Warner" <an...@solis-media.co.uk> writes:
>Colin Curtis and Partners have a web site at www.curtismarine.co.uk
>you can get quotes on all sorts of marine related cover.

Unfortunately the quote arrives by snail mail despite the fact that
the form asks for your email address.

Must try harder.

Guy Fawkes

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Apr 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/5/00
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agree with the principle of what you say, but an email still does not
constitute a "legal document" which an insurance quote must be. Plus
the small matter of your signature being your entry into a contract
under UK law.

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Peter Kay

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Apr 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/5/00
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"Guy Fawkes" <guy.f...@error404.surfbaud.co.uk> wrote in message

> agree with the principle of what you say, but an email still does not
> constitute a "legal document" which an insurance quote must be. Plus
> the small matter of your signature being your entry into a contract
> under UK law.
>
> thank tony bleugh
> --

In law this might be so although my insurer sent their Discharge form by
e-mail for me to sign electronically and e-mail back which I thought was
interesting.

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Rainer Thonnes

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Apr 5, 2000, 3:00:00 AM4/5/00
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In article <6u8mescq7mbttpi9n...@4ax.com>,

Guy Fawkes <guy.f...@error404.surfbaud.co.uk> writes:
>
>agree with the principle of what you say, but an email still does not
>constitute a "legal document" which an insurance quote must be.

By the same token you could say that even a paper quote based on
only vague phoned or emailed information is no "legal document"
either, in the sense of constituting a binding offer to provide
insurance cover so long as you just sign a cheque.

Therefore the quote is no more than a piece of information, which
would benefit from being despatched by the fastest means. It should
have come by email *and* snail mail.

Of course the snail mail also contained the formal proposal form
soliciting more detailed information than that on which the quote
was based. Were I to fill that in, then if they had worries about
some of my details, they would be perfectly at liberty to revise
their quote, or even to decline cover.

> Plus
>the small matter of your signature being your entry into a contract
>under UK law.

As far as I'm aware, your signature is not a prerequisite for entering
into a contract. Come to think of it, when I bought my flat, I think
I had signed nothing at the point at which my solicitor made a binding
offer on my behalf to buy the place. Scary.

The significance of your signature on the proposal form is merely
to declare that the details provided are true.

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