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Towergate Insurance appoints HR director

From Insurance Daily , 6 month ago, Read 1 times. Similar articles

Towergate Insurance has appointed Lucinda Charles-Jones as group human resources director, with effect from 24th October. Moving from AXA UK and Ireland where she served as interim group HR director, Ms Charles-Jones previously held HR directorships at Barclays, RAC and Lex Vehicle Leasing. More recently she spent three years as group HR director at recruitment [...] Read more

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Using An Annuity Policy To Pay For Long Term Care Insurance

From Hyers and Associates, Inc. Insur, 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Get a Quote »The Pension Protection Act of 2006 became law in January of 2010. The new law offers several provisions incentivizing the purchase of long term care insurance coverage. One significant component of the new law allows you to use what would normally be taxable annuity dollars to purchase a long term care insurance policy. This provision can be very useful if you have significant tax-deferred accumulation in a non-qualified annuity and wish to purchase long term care... Read more

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Social media ?personal brand' a must

From Insurance Daily , 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Children as young as 11 are managing their “personal brand” online, research from AXA finds, with active management of the online personal reputation seen as “crucial” by many young people. The findings suggest that 75% of the UK’s 11 to 18-year-olds are using social media sites such as Facebook, Bebo and Twitter, with two thirds of this group using the sites to tell people about themselves. Other revealing statistics include: At aged 11, only 14% of respondents... Read more

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Homer named as new BIBA chairman

From Insurance Daily , 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

The British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA) has announced that Andy Homer will become the trade association’s chairman in January 2012. Homer was most recently the group chief executive officer of Towergate Insurance and will take up a non-executive position on the insurer’s board. He brings four decades of experience in the sector to his new role at BIBA, including holding the roles of CEO with Axa Insurance UK and general manager of Commercial Union UK (now part of... Read more

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AXA urges homeowners to protect their gadgets

From Insurance Daily , 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

The days of burglars carting off their loot in vans may be gone, as AXA reveals there is £135.5bn in jewellery and small gadgets in British homes. The small but expensive items means that burglars can make off with a fortune, and need only a rucksack to carry their ill-gotten gains. According to research from AXA the average house has £5,218 of gadgets, jewellery and portable electrical items, such as the recently invented tablet computers and handheld games consoles. AXA Insurance’s... Read more

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AXA: bad driving habits partly hereditary

From Insurance Daily , 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

The bad behaviour of some young drivers can be attributed, at least in part, to the driving style of their parents, research from AXA suggests. Drivers aged 18-30 are thrice more likely to have points on their licence or a ban if their parents have points or a ban. Younger drivers who have seen their parents drink driving are seven times more likely to engage in such foolish behaviour themselves, with 28% of those with parents who drink drive following the example of their parents. Aggressive... Read more

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AXA and Admiral on referral fee ban

From Insurance Daily , 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

AXA UK has welcomed the Government’s decision to ban personal injury referral fees but warned that the move may not achieve all that is hope for. The fees, which have been blamed for inflating motor insurance premiums, are the “tip of the iceberg” so far as AXA is concerned, and the insurer is demanding a reduction in the fixed fees paid through the Ministry of Justice process as well, stating: “AXA calls on Government to additionally commission a robust review of the... Read more

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Young generation borrowing more and saving less

From Insurance Daily , 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

The second AXA Big Money Index has found that in the second quarter consumers are taking a more relaxed approach towards borrowing and debt. AXA has described the findings as worrying, citing the increasing willingness of people to borrow and incur debts to enjoy a lifestyle their earnings cannot support. Meanwhile efforts to save or [...] Read more

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AXA warns against ghost brokers

From Insurance Daily , 8 month ago, Read 2 times. Similar articles

Car insurer AXA has warned that as many as twenty thousand British motorists may be the victims of so-called ghost insurance brokers, and therefore have invalid car insurance. The last few years have seen AXA observe increasing numbers of customers whose alleged broker has submitted false information (accurate information would have caused a higher premium [...] Read more

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AXA warns against dangerous new crazes

From Insurance Daily , 9 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles

Travel insurer AXA has warned British travellers that claims made due to dangerous new crazes will be rejected. AXA has seen a spike in such claims, with as many made in the summer of this year as in the whole of 2010. The insurer blames the rise in claims (such as falling off of balconies) [...] Read more

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