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Top 10 predictions for UK Budget; Grant Thornton

THE UK CHANCELLOR of the Exchequer George Osborne will deliver his spring budget on 21st March and Francesca Lagerberg, Head of Tax at business and financial adviser Grant Thornton UK has … Continue reading

7 March 2012 · Leave a Comment

Referral fees – cash in while you can

Understandably the insurance industry reacted negatively to the news, but in the end cold, hard cash did the talking some days later. on 31st May, stock market analyst Collins Stewart was bullish about the prospects of FTSE 100 darling Admiral Insurance precisely because of the LSB’s protectionist stance. Referral fees are to continue and Admiral will carry on earning a tidy sum from them; a fact that won’t have gone unnoticed by the many pension funds with holdings in the motor insurer.

1 June 2011 · Leave a Comment

Something for personal injury lobbyists in 2011?

It took the insurance trade media a couple of weeks to notice that the Discount Rate was officially under review but this certainly got the defendant lobby talking amongst themselves with the actuaries pulling out their calculators first off.

7 December 2010 · Leave a Comment
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