Part Time Motor Traders Need Insurance Too
If you’re a part time motor trader, don’t fall victim to the idea that you don’t need a full time insurance policy! Whether you work a few days during the week or even just a few hours on the weekend, it is essential for you to take out adequate coverage. It may seem like your […]
Motor Trade Insurance News – £600,000 Ferrari Enzo totalled by Mechanics Going for a Joy Ride
Seeing a £600,000 Ferrari Enzo totalled is enough to make a grown man cry. To add insult to injury would be hearing that the car was wrecked by a couple of careless technicians who took the exotic car for a joyride, putting it into a concrete wall.
Business Insurance – Rogue Salesman Steals £100,000 from Dealership and Employees
A car salesman has been caught carrying out a scam to the tune of £100,000, including stealing £40,149 from the dealership he worked at. Richard Powell, 46, had previously been fired from another dealership due to “financial irregularities”, it appears this time he wasn’t so cautious in covering his tracks.
Big Brother Will Soon be Watching Us – Motor Trade Insurance
The year 1984 certainly wasn’t like 1984 but perhaps 2015 we will be getting a little closer to the concept of big brother watching us all the time. Big brother won’t be in our workplaces or bedrooms but rather in our vehicles in the form of a black box. Changes to EU regulations will mean […]
Someone’s Motor Trade Insurance Policy Is Getting A Big Hit
A story came to light recently of a gentleman who took his prized car into a garage for some apparently minor work to find that one of the mechanics who took it out for a test drive had totalled it meaning I suspect, a claim on the garage’s motor trade insurance policy.
Motor Trade Insurance Under 25 Years Old?
Historically if you wanted motor trade insurance under 25 years old it was never a problem and almost all the insurance companies which offered motor trade insurance would not have had a problem insuring, in fairness, anyone over the age of 21 but over the years things have changed.
A Dying Trade – Motor Trade Insurance News
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 […]
Employee Burned – Motor Trade Insurance News
Some motor trade insurance news. At Preston Crown Court today a vehicle salvage and parts firm, Douglas Valley Breakers, was fined £40,000 and ordered to pay £25,000 costs after an incident back in 2010 when an employee, Lee Roberts, was badly burned after fuel he was draining from a vehicle ignited.
What to do in a Storm… Allegedly! Motor Trade Insurance
Around about 20 years ago here in the midlands we had some fabulous snow. I was living at my parents’ house at the time which was out in the middle of nowhere and I remember we were completely snowed in. Furthermore, the power had gone down so we were sat in the house, surrounded […]
Motor trade insurance – a trip to Lloyds
I was recently asked by a business insurance broker friend if I would mind driving to him down to ‘The Smoke’ as he had a meeting with a motor trade insurance underwriter and wanted to spend the journey preparing for said meeting. I obliged and after dropping him off in the City I thought I’d […]