by Jason Cobine | Jan 6, 2010 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: Business Networking, Business Networking Tips, Business Networking Training, Employer Liability Insurance, Employers' Liability Insurance
Your network can help you keep clients as well as find new ones Here’s a simple way to add value to your product or service. From time to time your clients will reach the limit of your product or service. With a good sales and marketing process you will have...
by Jason Cobine | Nov 4, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: All Risks Insurance, Contractors Insurance, Employer Insurance, Fire Insurance, Health and Safety, Inspections
Insurance claim departments are taking a hard nosed approach – make sure you’re covered I recently heard about three businesses who have been robbed of £250,000 assets and their company insurance is not paying out. Today, I heard about another case of a business...
by Jason Cobine | Oct 5, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: All Risks Insurance, Contractors Insurance, Employer Insurance, Fire Insurance, General Requirements, Health & Safety inspection, Health and Safety, Working From Home
Fire risk assessments are not exactly high on the list of priorities for everyone. Some small businesses might think fire evacuation procedures are not important. So spare a thought for the business owner in Scotland who didn’t think a fire would ever affect his...
by Jason Cobine | Sep 16, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: All Risks Insurance, Contractors Insurance, Employee Insurance, Employer Insurance, Liability Insurance, Public Liability, Public Liability Insurance
Here’s a brief explanation of how accidents can happen, the benefits of quality service and how reputations can be enhanced when bad luck turns up. There seem to be a lot of people damaging windows in Bond Street these days. Not all of them are sinister....
by Jason Cobine | Sep 15, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: Employee Insurance, Employer Insurance, Employer Liability Insurance, Employers' Liability Insurance, Fire Insurance, General Requirements, Health & Safety inspection, Health and Safety, Health and Safety Inspections, Inspections
On the spot fines following these inspections have been increased to £20,000. Find out if your business is at risk and review our 7 free top tips on Health and Safety on our Top Tips page. There are three reasons why you may hear from the health & safety...
by Jason Cobine | Sep 2, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: Employer Insurance, General Requirements, Solicitors Indemnity Insurance, Solicitors Insurance
Legal eagles will be trying to get the best deal for their solicitor’s indemnity insurance in the next 5 weeks. All policies fall due for renewal on the same date so it really is “silly season” when every solicitors insurance in the UK has to be sorted out...
by Jason Cobine | Sep 1, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: All Risks Insurance, Call Centres, Working From Home
I recently read an article in a newsletter from marketing expert Dave Croydon, Hilltop Consultancy. David was voicing his concern that automated telephone systems were of little benefit to customers, going as far as to call them a “customer disservice”....
by Jason Cobine | Aug 19, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: Accountants Insurance, All Risks Insurance, Employee Insurance, Employer Insurance, Employer Liability Insurance, Employers' Liability Insurance, General Requirements
Jason Cobine of insurance brokers Cobine Carmelson explains why insurance companies decline business interruption claims and offers tips on how accountants can secure the proper payment for their clients. It’s not exactly news that insurance companies inspect...
by Jason Cobine | Aug 13, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: All Risks Insurance, Cyber Insurance, Cyber Insurance Risk, Employer Insurance, Employer Liability Insurance, Employers' Liability Insurance, General Requirements, Working From Home
Twitter has experienced problems this week. Could it happen to you? What happens when your website is hacked or your e-commerce platforms compromised? Does your theft or loss of income insurance kick in? The answer is that all three are unlikely yet there is something...
by Jason Cobine | Aug 6, 2009 | Categories: Insurance Blog | Tags: Fire Insurance, General Requirements, Health and Safety
A plumbing and heating engineer has recently been jailed for carrying out gas work whilst not being registered. He had used another engineer’s registration after he was served with a prohibition notice. His work left innocent households with heating systems...
