Industry News
Cutting corners on insurance spend
Published Thursday, June 25th 2009
Brits are cutting back on their insurance spending in an attempt to save money. Or so say Sainsbury's Finance.
Their latest press statement suggests that nearly 950,000 UK residents have either giv...
Fraudulent claims up says ABI
Published Thursday, June 25th 2009
Latest statistics from the ABI show fraudulent insurance claims on the rise as the recession starts to bite.
An estimated 107,000 false claims last year (worth £730 million) constituted a 30% incr...
Spare us the chopper
Published Friday, June 19th 2009
Poor old AXA. Every time the French insurer has the misfortune of laying off vast swathes of its workforce the same old clichéd headlines roll out. AXA the axer – ever heard that one? And now, as t...
Bingle!
Published Friday, June 19th 2009
Microsoft plans to spend $100 million advertising its “new” search engine Bing. Will that be enough to lure us all away from the ubiquitous Google? Will Binging it one day replace Googling it?
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Scrap, innit?
Published Friday, June 19th 2009
The Scrappage backlash is well and truly under way. The supposed environmental benefits of swapping older motors for newer more efficient ones have been comprehensively debunked. The jobs supposedly c...
Signing off
Published Friday, June 19th 2009
According to disturbing new research from insurers Direct Line and national road safety charity Brake, two thirds of British motorists don’t recognise a zebra crossing sign. Many drivers are apparen...
Jackson Review rolls into town
Published Thursday, June 11th 2009
UK fans have long been waiting for the latest news from crotch-grabbing pop legend “Lord Justice” Jackson.
Since being asked earlier this year to report on the world of civil litigation, Jackso...
Fleet drivers take note(s)
Published Thursday, June 11th 2009
For some reason insurers seem to believe that fleet managers‚ like foreigners‚ must be spoken to very loudly and very clearly.
The latest example of mildly patronising if doubtless well-intenti...
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