Action on Grenfell

Almost 6 years after the Grenfell Tower disaster we may now finally see action to make safe the numerous other ‘Grenfell type’ buildings with hazardous cladding around the country, which in turn will end the nightmare of leaseholders stuck in flats that could not be...

War in Ukraine affecting everyone

Expecting the unexpected probably comes with life experience but even after the pandemic, this time last year few thought Putin would really be mad enough to invade Ukraine and start a ‘full-scale’ war. Nearly one year on we are still feeling the effects, particularly...

A funny few years

So, it has been another difficult and, in many ways, very strange year again, but from an insurance viewpoint it has been very different from the pandemic years. Back then the insurance industry got a really bad (largely self-inflicted) press with the lack of covid...

Should you be careful what you wish for?

When we reminisce, it is often through ‘rose tinted spectacles’ as regards the way things were but when it comes to technology and new inventions, I always had the sense that most things got better and safer overtime.  If you consider road safety, when I was born in...

Don’t be sunk by subsidence policies

When there are well over a million claims for damage to buildings in the UK every year (and that is just home insurance) 18,000 of them may seem fairly insignificant, but not if you are one of the unfortunates claiming. 18,000 is the average number of subsidence...

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...