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20-01-2012

Commercial insurance specialists, Finch Group, is please to announce expansion into two new local markets with the opening of offices at either end of the M3 corridor.

A new office in Staines was opened in January 2012, aimed at providing a local commercial insurance service to companies based in the Staines, Kingston and Heathrow areas.

Likewise, a new office in Southampton on the ground floor of International House, George CurlWay (by Southampton Airport) will offer cover to local clients in South Hampshire, covering Southampton / Eastleigh and up towards Winchester.

These new offices follow the Finch Group principal of offering local support to local business and now gives us a presence across a large part of Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey.

Managing Director of Finch Commerical, Vince Gardner said,

“Our client numbers in Reading and Basingstoke have grown consistently over the last five years, prompting this move, so we can provide an even better service by localising ourselves in the community.”

The Staines office will be headed up by David Heath, who has over 30 years experience in commercial insurance and lives locally in Uxbridge. David is  also a non-Executive Director of Brentford Football Club and spent 26 months recently as acting CEO. David said,

“I’m delighted to have joined Finch Commercial recently, they enjoy an excellent reputation within the commercial insurance field for professional service and I look forward to meeting with and helping local businesses”.

The Southampton commercial insurance team will be headed-up by Neil Davis, who has over seven years experience in commercial insurance broking and is himself from the local area. Supporting Neil is Maire Brown, who manages Finch’s existing, strong relationships with local client firms The Champion Group, R.W Armstrong and Skilz.

05-12-2011

A stark warning has been given by the insurance industry to haulage operators who delay getting both their regular and occasional  drivers through the 35 hours CPC training, ahead of the 2014 deadline.

Andy Keane of Brit Insurance suggested that hauliers could risk the viability of their operations if they left all their driver CPC training to the last minute.

On current trends 30% of drivers could remain unaccredited by 2014, which Keane says would have a devastating impact on business if CPC qualified drivers are just not available.

 This concern was backed by John Davidge of Cardinus Risk Management  who told Insurance Insight,  "There will be many small-medium businesses that will be caught out by these forthcoming regulations. A couple of weeks' ago I did a survey with a lighting firm in Essex that run a mixed fleet of vans, 7.5 tonnes trucks and cars and was shocked to learn that the finance director was totally unaware of the Driver CPC regulations despite the risk that failure to comply will have on the business.

If you have any questions, contact our expert, Stewart Pease on 0118 921 5081 or by email at stewartpease@finchgroup.net

07-09-2011

The Government has agreed to deal with all reasonable damages as a result of the recent riots under the Riot Damages Act, and has extended the notice period to 42 days from the date of the incident.

In order for a recovery to be made from the Government under the Riot Damages Act, the authorities must be notified of any claims by 13 September 2011.

If you are a client of Finch and have any questions, or, wish to notify us of a claim, please contact us.