What do Bruce Willis, Bob the Builder and Jesus Have in Common?

When you’ve been offering clients access to financial services for as long as Drewberry has, you’ve pretty much seen it all when it comes to weird and wonderful pseudonyms people use to make enquiries.

From the famously jobless (Kate Middleton) enquiring about Unemployment Insurance to the dearly departed (Barry White, Steve Jobs, Bob Hoskins) looking for Life Insurance, we’ve had all sorts entered as people look for online insurance quotes.

Yes, Drewberry Can

Income Protection is our bread and butter and makes up the bulk of our enquiries. It’s a policy which kicks in to pay a proportion of your wages if you’re unable to do your job due to any accident or sickness 🤕.

Quite a few fictional – and some not so fictional – characters have pulled quotes from our website over the past year alone. Bob the Builder will be pleased to find that yes he can get Accident & Sickness Cover and may want to know that there are specialist Income Protection policies for the self-employed (if only he’d provided a valid number).

Manual workers such as Bob would typically be better placed with certain providers which are more geared up to providing Income Protection for tradesmen. Just ask Ben,  a self-employed builder from Harrogate, who we helped get cover last year.

Acci-don’t Cover

Other famous faces passing through our doors looking for Accident & Sickness Insurance include Bruce Willis. Most insurers would probably have trouble covering Die Hard-era Bruce – throwing yourself out of helicopters tends to be a no-no when it comes to insurance.

This said, they’d be more than happy to insure Bruce from The Sixth Sense (aside from the minor inconvenience of him being already [spoiler alert] deceased). We’ve insured our very own psychologist recently: Jo Clark from York.

Unfortunately, all Income Protection insurers have age limits. While cover can typically be offered up to the age of 70, 94-year-old comic book artist Stan Lee is probably out of luck. Meanwhile, boxer Amir Khan and singer Tom Jones would likely be straight declines for Income Protection – professional athletes, models and singers etc. wanting to insure themselves or various body parts typically do so through specialists such as Lloyd’s of London.

007 himself, James Bond, is fairly certain to get a flat no if he went ahead with his application for Life Insurance.

Meanwhile, speaking of gun-toting hazards, Daffy Duck probably looks down the barrel of far too many loaded shotguns to be considered for Accident & Sickness Cover.

And as we’re on the topic of risky occupations, Jon Snow’s application for Life Insurance came a tad too late. By June 2017, he’d already been [more spoilers!] murdered by the Night’s Watch.