http://www.bankstone.co.uk Bankstone Limited Website Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:22:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Leading leasing firm Marshall Leasing has taken on Bankstone Advantage Ltd to provide a full range of claims and accident management services. To read this story in full, visit the news pages of the website for Bankstone's sister company Bankstone Advantage Ltd by clicking here. http://www.bankstone.co.uk/marshall-plan-to-take-advantage The current issue of that estimable insurance organ Insurance Age takes an in-depth look at claims. Well worth reading, if you haven’t already. It also features (did we mention this?) a round-table discussion involving Bankstone’s own Dickon Tysoe. Edited highlights follow: David Bonehill (Ecclesiastical): “It’s not us that define good or bad [claims] ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/the-truth-about-insurance-claims Ever thought there might be more than one kind of person who rides a motorcycle? No flies on you then. Definitive new research carried for the DfT by the top-secret Transport Research Laboratory has discovered that there are in fact no fewer than seven different kinds. Are you a biker? Then ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/the-fatal-allure-of-an-audience Just 2% of drivers have got what it takes to post on Facebook while driving. According to a new survey by satnavs-to-lady-bikes outlet Halfords, nearly a third of drivers claim to read texts while driving. Almost one in five say they send texts at the wheel. One in 20 looks at ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/free-your-hands Finally, it seems, the Government has plucked up the courage to crack down on the mobility scooter maniacs making a misery of our lives. New plans from the DfT will require mobi-riders to take a driving test and purchase compulsory motor insurance, like the rest of us. They could also face criminal ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/a-touch-too-much-mobility According to Virgin Money, five-year old cars are most likely to occasion their drivers to claim on their motor insurance. In a feat of statistical analysis that will surely rock the motor insurance sector to its foundations, Virgin Monkey have established that, whilst ten year old cars account for just 6 ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/virgins-five-year-hitch-fears While researching this week’s in-depth story on pot holes (following a protracted narcotic interlude resulting from a regrettable semantic misunderstanding on the author’s part), Bankstone News happened upon GEM’s fascinating information mine at potholes.potholes.potholesuk Here it was that your correspondent stumbled across a most unusual and exciting literary invitation. GEM is ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/the-poetry-of-potholes Potholes. Suddenly they’re everywhere. And most of us have nearly died because of them. That’s according to “the UK’s leading driving based road safety association with around 60,000 members” GEM* (formerly known as the Guild of Experienced Motorists, formerly known as the Company of Veteran Motorists). GEM, some of whose members are ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/as-in-holes According to Aviva and the Motor Insurers’ Bureau, seven out of ten UK drivers claim to have no idea what the term fronting means.* Even those who do understand the term don’t seem to take it too seriously. 35% of drivers saw fronting as a “loophole” in the law and 10% ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/back-to-front Gordon Brown is hopping mad. According to biker’s bible MCN, a badly disconcerted PM is demanding answers PDQ as to why there’s apparently been a huge a huge drop in the number of people taking the motorcycle test since the format changed last year. The row began when Tory MP Anne Main’s ... http://www.bankstone.co.uk/bike-fall-gives-gb-a-testing-time