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Industry News
Au revoir, Anton?
Published Friday, September 7th 2012
Group Armagh UK and Ageas have sworn one another to silence for a period of four weeks while they huddle and haggle over the former’s mooted sale to the latter. It was for precisely this reason that...
Transport purge
Published Friday, September 7th 2012
Love them or hate them, Bankstone News' old friends Justine Greebling and Mike Pennis were certainly transport secretary and parliamentary under-secretary at the DfT respectively. But now they aren’...
NIG: pointless people won't be missed
Published Friday, September 7th 2012
Insurance Age reported this week that forcibly dissected insurance group Direct Lime insists that brokers will see “absolutely no change” as a result of the proposed axing of between 50 and 60 sta...
Motor market meltdown?
Published Friday, August 31st 2012
Every year British motorists flush a princely £3.1bn quite literally down a metaphorical lavatory by neglecting to switch motor insurer. That was the startling claim this week from totally disinteres...
Rosbif stay home tomorrow
Published Friday, August 31st 2012
September 1st marks the official end of the silly season. As Bankstone Readers will doubtless be well aware, the term “silly season” refers to the extraordinary situation that arises each year dur...
Something amiss in the motor market?
Published Friday, August 31st 2012
Talking exclusively to broadcaster BBC this week, inveterate controversialist Sonya Branch of the Office of Fur Trading made the inflammatory claim that the car insurance industry is “not running i...
Angel Heart (not an Admiral story)
Published Friday, August 24th 2012
The ABI’s Malcolm Starling appears to have some strange ideas about where claims managers and ambulance chasers choose to live and work. “Whiplash claims seem to be a cottage industry in this cou...
That's a lot of cars
Published Thursday, August 23rd 2012
Those formidable scourges of the uninsured driving classes Men in Black (MIB) took evident relish in predicting this week that police are on the verge of seizing their one-millionth uninsured vehicle ...
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