All Backchat articles – Page 26
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Those mystery prizes
Brokers Stuart Alexander won a whole host of prizes at the Biba conference, two weeks ago, including a weekend at a spa and golf resort.The AXA-owned broker’s marketing team telephoned Backchat to boast about other prizes won, such as a 32” flat screen TV, in-car DVD system and £250 cash. ...
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Claimant’s load of bull
Admiral’s anti-fraud strategy is bang on target.The booming car insurer added another string to its bow by using a private detective to shadow a latter day Robin Hood. Claiming he had lost all control and feeling in his arm, the claimant was taking aim at a cool half million. However, ...
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Another hack needs a bulldozing
Robert Hiscox is not too enamoured with the press at the moment, it would seem.The chairman of Hiscox has only just recovered from a piece in a certain Sunday newspaper claiming that he wouldn’t mind if Lloyd’s was bulldozed.Now the outspoken insurer is fending off another article trying to besmirch ...
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Royal welcome for R&SA
Royal & SunAlliance chief executive Bridget McIntyre and a group of employees recently returned from a trip to China (which, Backchat hears, included a fair few stints on the karaoke machine). The group were surprised to find that, on arriving at the airport, they were greeted by a fleet of ...
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Boozy buyers show the way
The notoriously sociable broking industry was surprisingly upstaged at this year’s Biba Conference by the wine-guzzling antics of delegates at the London International Wine and Spirits Fair.Backchat watched in wonder as buyers from across Europe showed the 3,200 or so Biba delegates how it was done after three days of ...
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Cullum longs for AIG stardom
?When you’re the president and chief executive of the world’s biggest insurer it’s little wonder that your peers suffer a little of the green-eyed monster syndrome from time to time.Martin Sullivan, boss of AIG, must be used to it by now having held the revered post for more than 10 ...
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Sheilas take a bow
Pseudo-legendary, sequin-clad insurance trio The Sheilas plan to launch a new market-leading product this summer, with their debut single: “(I'm so) Happy Happy (You’re Mine).”If the brackets weren’t confusing enough, meet the team. There’s Cathi, whose claim to fame is “I am lovely”; Emma, who is married to one of ...
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Millie's £50,000 masterpiece
Readers may have read elsewhere in this issue about broker Matthew Hewitt winning the QBE Fantasy Football league. What you will not know is that the Elstree Insurance broker had some unique intervention from his five year old daughter Millie. At half-time Hewitt was trailing by four points in the ...
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Moody pets in a sweat
Not content with selling insurance on the back of its brake, exhaust and tyre repair empire, Kwik-Fit is using its call centre hotline to pioneer the latest Japanese innovation.In a change from the usual drone of department store-style music, Kwik-Fit Insurance callers, waiting to speak to a customer service representative, ...
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Lloyd's smiles on Ugly Betty
A picture is worth a thousand words, but apparently the geeky smile of one US comedy star is worth $10m. And guess who has insured it?Known for covering the unique and unusual, Lloyd's agreed a multi-million dollar insurance policy with Aquafresh White Trays for the smile of America Ferrera, star ...
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Fantasy League battle over
The last ball has been kicked in this season's QBE Fantasy Football League, in association with Insurance Times. Over 5,000 people from all parts of the insurance sector joined the game and the competition has been intense throughout. Now, after nine months filled with intrigue and more than ...
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Styling Lloyd's success
Perhaps it is the style of the times, but could the bumper year at Lloyd's have anything to do with Richard Ward's coiffure? IT fashionistas have learned that the Lloyd's head man shares his name with an award-winning hairdresser, who claims to provide in-depth consultations, analysis and quotations – for ...
