Online Shopping Crazy! Business Insurance Blog
The message seems to be clear. BUY INSURANCE ONLINE! According to IMRG who compile the e-Retail Sales Index, the UK has now by far the most prolific internet shoppers out of the 28 member states of the EU with 82% of internet users regularly shopping online accounting for 10% of all retail sales, a figure […]
Is Your Landlord Insurance Valid?
A major landlord insurance provider recently reported on the problem of the increasing number of ‘ghost’ tenants within the private rental sector sparking concerns over the validity of many landlord insurance policies. The insurer surveyed a number of letting agents and concluded that as many as one in ten rented properties contain ‘resident ghosts’. Whilst […]
Unoccupied Commercial Property Insurance
There has been a lot made in the press recently about the number of unoccupied shops throughout the UK at the moment. The owners of these shops are varied. Property funds and investment companies such as Standard Life and Prudential generally own the bigger, more prominent and valuable high street shops and shopping centres. […]
Quentin investigates…. The Rocket Coventry
Quentin Investigates….. When doors close, others open I must say, that fateful day I fell over the table of businessmen one afternoon not so very long ago I was clearly the worse for wear after having decided I was the chief taster for Glenwhateveritwas. I don’t normally wear a suit, but that day I was […]
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 […]
Caravan Insurance – Motorhome & Caravan Show 2013
The Motorhome and Caravan show will be running from the 15th to 20th of October 2013 at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. Widely regarded as the most important show in the UK for all things caravan, with not only all the latest models, accessories, products and peripherals but with activities and attractions such […]
Pub Insurance – Quentin Investigates!
Good News! A new freelance journalist has joined our team. We met Quentin Thrapstock last week in a quiet pub whilst we were having a spot of lunch with an insurer discussing pub insurance and he inadvertently fell over a chair, upending our table. After dusting himself off and buying us all a beer we […]
Catering Trailer Insurance
At CompareCrazy.com we have a panel of insurers who can cover all your requirements when it comes to catering van insurance and catering trailer insurance. Recently in the press there was a case in the south of England where a catering trailer exploded in the early hours of the morning, sending shrapnel forty feet into […]
Public Liability – Coke makes a coke up!
Products liability insurance, normally a bolt on to public liability insurance on commercial combined and retail package insurance policies can be useful if for example you become legally liable in the event that you have an unforeseen problem with goods you are supplying. I’m not so sure if Coca Cola will have too many public […]
Bad News For Some Landlords
Landlords Mortgages Well, it seems that the West Bromwich Building Society, clearly unhappy with the fact that they’ve managed to lose £9.4 million in the last financial year, have decided that a ‘lifetime tracker’ for landlords mortgage should not necessarily last for a lifetime, just until they decide otherwise! The time happens to be December […]