Covid travel

The travel industry seems to have largely overcome the problems experienced with staffing and cancelled flights at the start of the summer holiday season and likewise with travel insurance, cover for COVID is gradually settling down. It has been a bit of a roller...

Trampoline Madness

I often hear and use ‘the world has gone mad’ these days but it is no longer just the political correctness, with all that has happened over the last few years you do wonder if the authorities really have gone mad. …Trampoline injuries may seem a strange example...

The rules don’t always make sense

I know it was my fault and I was in the wrong, but I still feel peeved with the authorities... …Perhaps it’s partly due to ‘Party-Gate’, why should I comply when the rule makers don’t, but it is probably more that some rules don’t make sense. It is becoming...

The Cyber Insurance See-Saw

Over the years one of the virtues I have extolled about the Insurance industry is how quickly it evolves to meet new risks and by far the fastest moving risk I have seen develop during my career is cyber. …Cyber Insurance has evolved quickly to keep up, although...

How war is affecting insurance

Having grown up in the 1960s, I am fortunate not to have had any first-hand experience of war.... …My Grandads were too young to fight in the First World War, too old for the second and likewise, my dad was only called up as the Second World War finished. There...