Industry News
Help Hire!
Published Friday, May 15th 2009
The 'Help’ bit of its name sounds ever more urgently plaintive as accident management firm Helphire attempts to extract monies owed by insurers and offload its over-large fleet.
The company clai...
Double-edged sword slated for long grass?
Published Friday, May 8th 2009
Insurance Times reports mixed views this week on the Ministry of Justice’s much delayed and watered down proposals for reforming how personal injury claims are handled in the UK.
With a new deadl...
New Bennetts ads preach gospel of inclusion
Published Friday, May 8th 2009
Bennetts, the babe and motorcycle insurance specialist, has launched a new advertising campaign which, it claims, takes account of the fact that different people ride different types of motorcycle.
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ABI claims age aims unattainable
Published Friday, May 8th 2009
The FT reported this week on the row over the government’s published Equality Bill, due for implementation this autumn, which may do little to help older people and could “raise costs for all.”
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Direct goes face to face
Published Friday, May 8th 2009
Hastings Direct chairperson Neil Utley is excited. Why? Because he has identified an opportunity to build “the best multichannel insurance broker in the UK.”
How? By opening three ‚ possibly ...
Pop goes the ban on musicians
Published Thursday, April 30th 2009
“I am the passenger,” claims James Newell Osterberg Jr. repeatedly in his 1977 hit song “The Passenger.” But Osterberg‚ better known as wizened trouser-python wrangler Iggy Pop‚ appears to...
Scrappaging around for a silver lining
Published Thursday, April 30th 2009
The insurance community is working through the implications of the government’s recently announced “scrappage” scheme and snatching ‚ like a kitten scampering after a torch beam‚ at one or t...
NIG slims down to get closer to brokers
Published Thursday, April 30th 2009
Exhibiting true mastery of the subtle art of paradox NIG says it believes closing almost half its 18 regional offices will provide brokers with “an even better level of on-the-ground contact from co...
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