Back in 2012, the owner of a caravan dealership was jailed for a total of 31 months for a series of fraudulent actions which netted him over £72,000. Sean Cole, 46, of Torpoint in Devon, admitted and was convicted of 13 counts of fraud whilst he was the boss of Plymouth Caravan Centre in Plympton,…
It was reported in the press a couple of weeks ago that a British tourist, Dougie Thomson,58, of Wishaw near Glasgow, was playing golf at the Iberostar Cancun Hotel complex in Mexico, when he hit a poor shot into a bunker. At this stage I’m almost certain the last thing on Dougie’s mind was his…
Under any insurance policy which incorporates theft insurance, an insurer will rightly ask for certain preventative measures to be in place by the insured. For example if you have a high value car it may be a prerequisite that there is a tracker device fitted. If you are insuring a jeweller’s shop they will be…
Further to the recent case of WPC Kelly Jones, who tripped on a kerb during a call out to a garage and subsequently tried to claim £50,000 for an injured ankle, (she subsequently dropped the claim due to pressure from the public and even comments from the then Home Secretary, Theresa May of ‘frivolous’ claims…
If the same rules applied to cats as they do for dogs, Shiny would be dead. As it stands, he’s on a feline par with Charlie Bronson as being Britain’s most dangerous. Charlie is locked up in the maximum security Wakefield Prison, ‘cat A’ if you’ll excuse the pun. Shiny on the other hand is…
As I have been suffering from ‘galloping man flu’ (which as we know is the worst kind of man flu) for the last couple of weeks, it seems appropriate to comment on the fact that it has been reported in the press today that Boots the chemist has had to recall several of their own…
A recent exhibition at The Wharf in Tavistock, Devon entitled ‘Not 24 Hours’ highlighted the work of photographer Andrew Parker, who has spent several years capturing images of a dying phenomenon within the motor trade. Indeed, when I first set out in insurance nearly twenty years ago, on a motor trade insurance proposal form one…
A story caught my eye in the Manchester Evening News the other day where a disused furniture store in Little Underbank, Stockport had inadvertently collapsed, crushing a neighbour’s car. This got me to thinking about the implications with regard to unoccupied property insurance. It is understood that the owner of the car, a BMW…
My recent blog with regard to a survey carried out by a popular energy drink manufacturer must have come as a bit of a shock to many employers, if the figures were to be believed, as to the proportion of office workers who enjoy a bit of a snooze at work and the amount of…
An investigation has been launched by police after a number of caravans were destroyed in a fire at Charlton’s Caravan Storage, between Ellington and Lynemouth, Northumberland just over a week ago. Explosions could be heard and thick, black plumes of smoke seen for miles around as gas cylinders exploded and fire crews battled to bring…
According to the National Landlords Association, the second quarter of 2013 has seen 39% of their members (who participated in their survey) having experienced some rental arrears from their tenants over the previous twelve months, rising to 45% of landlords who let to tenants in receipt of Local Housing Allowance, the arrears averaging out at…
I read something quite disturbing recently about a survey carried out by a well known, so called ‘energy drink’ manufacturer. Whilst this article technically has nothing to do with employers liability insurance, it may be of some interest to employers in general.
If you’ve read my previous blogs you may be aware that I am not personally a big fan of caravans! However as part of my remit to write articles on caravan and trailer insurance, I have come across something quite remarkable called a’ Twagon’ or towable wagon. Chris Ward of Wild Wood Design, based in…
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At CompareCrazy.com our panel of brokers include a number with schemes for grade 2 listed buildings insurance, buildings such as The Ancient Ram Inn, located in the village of Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire.
at 1:00 a.m. Central European Time Monday on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Ocean and Antarctica, prompting me, perhaps with a splashing of mild paranoia, to check that I have adequate buildings insurance cover!
Watching Channel 4’s ‘George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces’ a couple of weeks ago, I was fascinated by the story of a giant egg, commissioned for British artist Stephen Turner as a place to live and work as he studies the changes he observes in the surrounding environment over the next year.
Landlords insurance policies can vary greatly in price dependant on the type of tenant. For example a house with a working couple living in it would be considerably cheaper to insure than a similar property jammed to the rafters with asylum seekers. Somewhere within this scale, although on the slightly more expensive side, comes student…
Well now we’ve got that nonsensical American Hallowe’en rubbish out of the way, where children, normally supervised by apparent adults, think it’s perfectly acceptable behaviour to go knocking on random strangers’ doors begging when we teach them not to approach strangers the rest of the time, it’s that time of the year for a proper…
Brazilian press reported last week on a fire at a sugar warehouse in Santa Adelia, Sao Paulo in which up to 30,000 tonnes of sugar melted, highlighting the need for material damage cover within your business insurance. The river of caramel threatened to engulf homes and many residents were evacuated. The local river was contaminated,…
It is being reported in the press more and more frequently that landlords are being prosecuted for shortcomings in relation to their responsibilities to tenants and abiding by the law. One of the prerequisites for both is to have adequate landlord property insurance. On Thursday, 24th October 2013, Chelmsford Crown Court heard how Claire Sherwood…
It is refreshing to see in these dark days, when so many pubs are closing, a community fighting back. It has come to light recently that the locals and villagers of Charwelton, near Daventry, Nortamptonshire, have come together to form a co-operative with the hope of saving their local, The Fox and Hounds. The pub…
The world’s oldest leisure caravan, aptly named ‘The Wanderer’ has made its final journey this week. The caravan was originally custom made for Dr. William Gordon Stables, a retired author and ship’s surgeon. Dr. Stables had a fondness for the outdoors from childhood and had always been an adventurer having visited many places on various…