Industry News
Police crack down on Magoo
Published Thursday, April 30th 2009
Bankstone News is heartened to learn that our local police force is cracking down on key road safety issues such as the inability to see.
In their latest day of action West Yorkshire Police have be...
Carry on comparing
Published Friday, April 24th 2009
In the aggregator news this week, Moneyextra.com extra plans to “shake up” the price comparison market by launching an online insurance aggregator backed by a call centre. New managing ...
Swings and roundabout insurance-jobs-wise
Published Friday, April 24th 2009
Mixed news on the insurance jobs front this week as RSA said it plans to axe 500 roles in Bristol and Swinton said it would be taking on 250 at its Norwich-based call centre. Don’t be surpri...
Adams joins the ex-fleet list at Helphire
Published Thursday, April 23rd 2009
“Helphire is not married to the credit hire model,” the company’s new CEO Mark Adams told Post Magazine in February this year. Nor, as it turns out, was Mark Adams married to Helphir...
Bikers shortchanged in road safety plans?
Published Wednesday, April 22nd 2009
Notwithstanding its laudable aim of cutting roads deaths by a third by 2020, the Department for Transport’s new road safety strategy “A Safer Way: Consultation on Making Britain's Roads th...
Lies, damned lies: some statistics
Published Friday, April 17th 2009
One in ten British motorists lie to their insurers as a matter of principle. That is the extraordinary conclusion of the latest research from moneysoupmarket.com. The study revealed that 36% of dri...
Job worries create fatigue epidemic
Published Friday, April 17th 2009
The communications people at Norwich Union have come up with an ingenious new way to worry over our widespread economic woes. Recession and ensuing economic insecurity, the insurer says, will raise...
Recession fuels fraud says ABI
Published Thursday, April 16th 2009
The latest update on the insurance fraud wave sweeping the recession-hit UK comes from the ABI. They reckon insurers are detecting 2,000 dodgy claims a week. This is worth £14 million a week, apparen...
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