With our wealth of experience in the Plant, Machiney & Construction Insurance sectors, Andrew Bourne & Co will be actively targeting clients in these sectors throughout 2013 and 2014. Watch out for our new marketing material, coming soon! Heavy Plant Hirers & Waste Recycling Contractors, beware the markets are vastly declining following a number of high profile losses being [...]
Please refer to the following link www.commercialmotor.com/news-and-blogs A total of 180 applications have been approved by the Department for Transport (DfT) for next year’s trial of longer semi-trailers, CM can reveal. The breakdown consists of hauliers, own-account operators and trailer manufacturers, which between them will pilot the use of 1,811 longer semi-trailers on UK roads. [...]
The first of a series of monthly meetings designed to help Harborough businesses is being held at the Harborough Innovation Centre later this month. The monthly meeting, known as ‘The Business Agenda’ will be free for anybody to attend and will be a mixture of education, innovative business ideas and networking. Business owners from [...]
The HMRC has recently announced three new campaigns about which construction clients need to be aware. In their press release, the HMRC said that the campaigns will focus on: Missing returns. This will contribute to wider HMRC activity tackling failure to complete tax returns. It will initially focus on those who fail to complete tax returns [...]
Insurers will be able to dip into the IFR to weed out insurance cheats who currently add an estimated £50 to every policy. The IFR is the latest in a series of fraud busting initiatives. The Police Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department has led to a number of arrests since it kicked off in January. [...]
A case in Scotland, which recently resulted in three companies being fined over the same incident, provides a reminder of the health and safety responsibilities of all firms involved in any part of the construction supply chain, not just the contractor. The companies were – between them – fined over £300,000 following a fall of over [...]
David Cameron on behalf of the Government has confirmed this morning in Parliament that the Riot (Damages) Act 1886, police compensation schemes will operate as normal and that the time frame for notifying claims under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 has been relaxed from 14 days to 42 days from the date of damage or [...]
Andrew Bourne & Co. are now one of a limited number of insurance consultants with access to a unique policy that will pay for a Chartered Loss Adjuster to work on your behalf to prepare, negotiate and settle Material Damage, Business Interruption and Contract Works claims exceeding £5,000. It is called Loss Recovery Insurance. In [...]
The CIE (Continuous Insurance Enforcement) legislation has now commenced, with warning letters being issued to registered keepers of uninsured vehicles from the end of June 2011. What does this actually mean? The new CIE law makes it an offence to keep an uninsured vehicle, unless it is SORN (Statuatory Off Road Notification) or otherwise exempt. What will happen if your [...]
Continuous Insurance Enforcement (CIE) is a new initiative led by the Motor Insurers’ Bureau and DVLA to reduce the number of vehicles being driven on UK roads without Insurance. It is now a criminal offence to keep a vehicle without appropriate motor insurance unless it has a valid Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN). The new [...]