In a recent BBC interview – Sir James Dyson highlighted the need for investment into hardware and engineering projects within the UK. He has opened a new building, the Royal College of Art’s Dyson Building, which will provide a home for start-up firms producing tangible products rather than software. Investment back into the UK has to …
A recent price guarantee scheme by leading supermarket Asda has caused headaches for their IT Consultants and advisers as the website software running their system incorrectly calculated the price of competitor products generating vastly inflated vouchers for customers. The Asda Price Guarantee Scheme offers vouchers to customers if supermarket competitors prove to be cheaper. The …
UK Insurers and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have urged homeowners to ensure their home and motor policy documents are kept in a safe place. Anyone whose property is damaged should contact their insurer’s 24-hour emergency number as soon as possible, before throwing out any damaged belongings. As always, any of our clients that …
In what could make for an interesting motor claim, a Brazilian lorry driver was left dangling in his cab for 25 minutes following a crash on the Chavantes bridge in Brazil. Read more here: Lorry Crashes And Hangs Off Bridge In Brazil.
HCC Professional Indemnity Division have today announced that with immediate effect they will be writing Professional Indemnity insurance with limits of indemnity up to £10,000,000. They also announce that they have launched a new ‘Excess Layer’ facility with limits of indemnity up to £5,000,000. We deal directly with HCC and can offer these increased levels …
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has launched a new initiative to help combat the rising number of fraudulent and exaggerated insurance claims. Called the ‘Insurance Fraud Register‘ it comprises of a database to hold the details of all known fraudsters. It will be operated by the Insurance Fraud Bureau. An ABI report in 2011 …
Business Insurance is an insurance policy that you can buy to protect your business against loss or damage to property or against claims made against your business from somebody else. If you run your own business or you are looking to start a new business then you may have been thinking, ‘what is business insurance?’. …
A shopkeeper from London has reportedly been ordered to pay nearly £112,000 in compensation after a customer slipped on some fruit outside of his shop and sustained injuries. Shop owner Onkar Singh Gill was taken to court by regular customer Samira Hassan, 57, after she fell outside his shop in Greenford, West London. She claims …
A class action lawsuit worth a reported $30 million has been filed after a shopping mall in Elliot Lake, Ontario collapsed, killing two people and injuring countless others. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the people injured, emotionally scarred or left jobless by the incident, claims that the June 23rd roof collapse of the Algo …