Insurance
Aug 12 2008, Arpita Mukherjee

Nobody likes being visited by bad luck not even the insurance companies who have to dole out rather reluctantly those big amounts of money. The Assurall advert - ‘Bad luck never takes a holiday’ is the most damning thing that anyone would expect...

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