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Insurance world goes sex mad
Published Friday, February 3rd 2012
How very disappointing! Just when Bankstone News had concluded that those erstwhile sex-crazed delinquents of the insurance advertising world Professional Insurance Agents (PIA) had turned over a new ...
Sorry, I didn't quite catch that
Published Friday, February 3rd 2012
FSA chief exec Hector Santa this week mounted an eloquent - if barely audible - defence of his leading role in the RBS debacle. Called to give evidence before the Treasury Select Committee, Santa expl...
Group Armagh: the facts
Published Thursday, February 2nd 2012
There are many ways to go about selling an insurance business, but according to Insurance Age, Group Armagh has hit on a particularly unusual modus operandi for hiving off its UK operations.
Group ...
Last week's left overs
Published Wednesday, February 1st 2012
As regular readers will recall from last week’s Bankstone News, we left off half-way through a thrilling Daily Mail lid-lift on the sordid worm can that is insurance claims. There now follows the re...
What, even policemen? (Part 1)
Published Thursday, January 26th 2012
The Daily Mail is justly feted for its Squeezed-Middle-Englander type take on who should be banged up/banned/deported etc. Looks like insurance people could now be in the paper's sights.
Quite lite...
Conceptual progress for BLD
Published Thursday, January 26th 2012
Leading UK motorcycle accident provider BLD confused the hell out of Bankstone News this week by claiming to have brought two paint shops together under an umbrella.
Initially nonplussed by this se...
It's like the end of the road all over again
Published Thursday, January 26th 2012
Brits’ willful and misguided attempts to continue owning and driving cars have helped bring about an astonishing increase in personal indebtedness that will see the average UK family owing twice as ...
Do me a favour!
Published Wednesday, January 25th 2012
Bleeding heart lefty national broadcaster the BBC has this week accused insurers of ‘discriminating’ against unemployed people by charging them more for their car insurance.
BBC reporters aske...
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