Now that everybody can give a cell phone , laptop and MP3 player , it seems insurance companies are accept Brobdingnagian hits . Tower , a New Zealand - based insurance outfit , quotes “ in excess of $ 750,000 per annum and mount ” in claims for portable electronics . And unluckily for them , being drunk and leaving your Mobile River in a cab is a beneficial enough reason to amass . Not that I’VE ever done anything like that , unless “ being hopped up on ether ” counts as inebriated and you may call “ Air Force One ” a cab .
Oh , they also suspect some people may actually just want to raise their stuff and be LYING about stolen or lose trade good . I mean , who do they think we are ? Now , um , where did I leave that damn Vaio I got for Hanukah last twelvemonth …
Insurers eat into over gadgets[Stuff.co.nz ]
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