Foreign doctors, according to the Tories, are putting lives at risk through poor English. Backchat is concerned that those who lose their medical jobs must be moving to the insurance industry.

Here (with punctuation, spelling and capitalisation quoted direct) is a letter to a broker from Axa insurance:

“With reference to the above claim. We can now advise that this has been concluded With out A full recovery of our outlay being made. We have now to close our file of papers.

We regret therefore in confirming that the bonus has now been disallowed.

When I called our Insured, I mention that there may loose their bonus. Are client mention about having a protective claims bonus. Please will you let me no of this so I will be able to reinstate the bonus.”


The 2025 Insurance Times Awards took place on the evening of Wednesday 3rd December in the iconic Great Room of London’s Grosvenor House.

Hosted by comedian and actor Tom Allen, 34 Gold, 23 Silver and 22 Bronze awards were handed out across an amazing 34 categories recognising brilliance and innovation right across the breadth of UK general insurance.
Many congratulations to all the worthy winners and as always, huge thanks to our sponsors for their support and our judges for their expertise.

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