Hastings Group
Post in print - 29 July 2010
Post reporter Amy Ellis outlines the main news from this week's issue of Post.
Penny Black's insurance week
A cautionary tale reaches Penny about the dangers of playing with hot candle wax, or rather the embarrassment that can be caused by being covered in this quick-drying viscous liquid when dining with colleagues. For that is the sticky situation that…
Utley looking forward to "entrepreneurial" life after IAG
Outgoing IAG UK chief executive Neil Utley has poured scorn on any prospect of him returning to buy the Equity Red Star business for a second time.
Website Review: Direct Line
In the first of a new series for Post, web performance monitoring specialist Gomez runs the gauntlet over Direct Line's website to see how it performed in a number of key areas and stands up against some of its rivals.
Money Supermarket steps up fraud battle
Price comparison giant Money Supermarket is rolling out a revamped home insurance website, which includes improved measures to combat fraud.
Top five Post stories
The five most popular stories at postonline.co.uk over the past seven days were:
Lloyds TSB welcomes “important” Hastings deal
Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has confirmed its intention to back the Hastings management team.
Broker Hastings gets major capital injection from Lloyds TSB
Personal lines specialist Hastings Direct has become the latest broker to receive third-party capital after agreeing to a £20m cash injection from Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets.
£20m Lloyds TSB cash injection for Hastings
Personal lines specialist Hastings Direct has become the latest broker to receive third-party capital after agreeing to a £20m cash injection from Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets.
New Comment - High Street Broking: The direct approach to branching out
Having floated the idea of launching a network of branches in May last year, Hastings Direct officially opened its first shop earlier this month. Edward Fitzmaurice explains why the firm is opening branches in an age increasingly dominated by online…
New Hastings branch
Hastings has opened its first branch in Bexhill-on Sea.
Penny black's insurance week
Penny was out and about with Hastings CEO Edward Fitzmaurice this week, and one couldn't help but be surprised by his music taste. After a discussion of the fine arts — and not so fine arts — something of a revelation occurred. Among the standard…
Markel boost retail division with two hires
Markel has appointed John Parkinson and Rupert Joce to its retail division as business operations manager and senior technical underwriter respectively.
Helphire and Hastings join forces
Credit hire firm to provide motor customers with replacement vehicles
Pick of the week
IFB to move into new product areas; Stakeholders to discuss CPR rules; Hastings Direct to launch high street branch; Accident Exchange issues Autofocus proceedings; Primary Group set to axe 10% of staff