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| bog standard health, life and car policies. No, in | | | | Merv Hughes – an Australian cricket player |
| fact if you can think about insuring something the | | | | – who insured his iconic moustache for almost |
| chances you probably can and someone's done it | | | | $400,000. The food critic Egon Ronay is also |
| already. Sit tight as we take you on a whirl round | | | | thought to have insured his taste buds for the |
| the weird world of strange insurance policies. | | | | same amount. |
| The first weird insurance policy is the most out of | | | | Planning a relaxing holiday to some of the world's |
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| policies are proving more and more popular with | | | | Eastern Europe? You might want to take kidnap |
| London-based insurance company Goodfellow | | | | insurance with you! Kidnap and Ransom insurance |
| Rebecca Ingram Pearson having sold a total of | | | | is popular with wealthy people and their families |
| 30,000 insurance packages to date. Alien | | | | should they be held hostage and a price |
| abduction isn't the only supernatural insurance | | | | demanded for their release. The only catch here |
| policy on the market however with ghost, | | | | is that the insurance company doesn't pay for the |
| werewolf, vampire and even asteroid insurance all | | | | person's release first hand, instead they reimburse |
| available to purchase. | | | | families after they have paid the kidnappers. |
| Weather insurance might sound odd on paper but | | | | Finally, for anyone planning that 'big day', taking |
| in fact weather insurance is the oldest kind of | | | | out wedding insurance might be a worthwhile |
| insurance around. Farmers' earnings have long | | | | option. With the average UK wedding costing |
| been tied to rain and shine but weather insurance | | | | upwards of £10,000 – excluding the |
| now covers more than just farmers. Golf | | | | honeymoon – you can protect your wedding |
| tournaments can insure against rain, hot air balloon | | | | against last minute cancellation. Couples can go |
| companies can insure against lack of wind while | | | | further to cover individual elements of their big |
| film companies are big fans of weather insurance | | | | day such as the bride's dress, drunken damage to |
| when it comes to shooting on location. | | | | the wedding reception or even poor wedding |
| With film makers insuring against the weather, it | | | | photography. |
| wouldn't be Hollywood without the A-listers getting | | | | Protection against alien abduction, kidnap and |
| in on the action as well. Mariah Carey is thought to | | | | drunken revellers; who would have thought that |
| have insured her legs for a gargantuan $1 billion | | | | pet, travel and life insurance weren't the only |
| dollars while supermodel Heidi Klum allegedly | | | | things you could insure. |
| insured her catwalk perfect legs for an astonishing | | | | |