Penny Black
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 17 September 2015
At her age, Penny could be forgiven for forgetting names but when making an acquisition announcement, surely, there is no room for confusion.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 10 September 2015
With the Rugby World Cup soon upon us, egg chasing was very much at the top of the discussion during the breaks at the recent Claims Club meeting.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 3 September 2015
Everyone deserves a summer break of sorts, but it was with some trepidation Penny agreed to take part in Post’s team day out.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 20 August 2015
Penny is not a fan of numbers – other than in relation to how many names she has on her dance card.
Penny Black's insurance week - 6 August 2015
Penny is giving serious thought to creating some sort of insurance superteam to enter the Tour de France 2016.
Penny Black's Insurance Week
Penny and her colleagues found a candidate for the most appropriately named employee of the year when reading one of the many hundreds of press releases that turn up on the news desk at Post.
Penny Black's Insurance Week
News that Markerstudy has launched its own Coat of Arms, inscribed with the Latin words Fortes Fortuna Juvat (Fortune favours the bold), sparked some interesting debate at Post Towers last week.
Penny Black's Insurance Week: 9 July 2015
With hours spent at etiquette school before her societal debut, Penny can confidently say ‘faux pas' is not a part of her vocabulary.
Penny Black’s Insurance Week: 2 July 2015
The industry’s unsung heroes, the brave souls in the marketing and PR teams who have to get pestered by Post journalists on a weekly basis, gathered in London for the inaugural Insurance Marketing and PR Awards on 26 June.
Penny Black’s Insurance Week- 22 June 2015
Last week Penny attended the highlight of the risk manager's social calendar - Airmic 2015.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 11 June
Penny does her best not to laugh at the misfortune of others during the course of the normal working day -she wasn't raised in a barn - but there have been a few notable exceptions.
Penny Black’s Insurance Week - 4 June 2015
Penny is rather partial to a bit of fine dining - particularly when it's taking place in Europe's highest garden space - so she jumped at the chance to lunch with some of Crawford & Co's finest at Fenchurch Street's Sky Garden.
Super speed meets: Neil Richards-Smith
Neil Richards-Smith is group MD, NCI
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 21 May 2015
Penny loves a good freebie so she's always ecstatic when the British Insurance Brokers' Association conference rolls around each year - one can never have too many stress balls,teddy bears and top hats.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 14 May
They claim children say the funniest things, and Penny saw an example of this at the recent Association of British Insurers' seminar on cyber security.
Penny Black's insurance week - 7 May 2015
Penny knows how awkward it can be to cop some flak for wearing the wrong outfit, so she has plenty of sympathy for Biba executive director Graeme Trudgill.
Penny Black’s Insurance Week - 30 April 2015
Penny has some sympathy for company recruiters these days, with many fearful of cracking a joke in case a poorly judged remark lands them on the wrong side of an employment tribunal.
Penny Black’s Insurance Week – 23 April 2015
The Post newsdesk has been awash with news of brokers moving to rival firms this year and last week was no different.
Penny Black super speed meets: Hannah Squirrell
Hannah Squirrell is marketing director – insurance, Tesco Bank.
Penny Black’s Insurance Week: 14 April 2015
With the great and the good of the general insurance industry’s trade press summoned to a lunch by broking stalwart Stuart Reid, Post Towers was alive with speculation regarding the future of the Bluefin boss.
Penny Black’s Insurance Week - 2 April 2015
A woman's handbag is normally a mezze plate of essential life staples, but Penny's capacious holdall failed to pass muster at a recent interview with Ten Insurance director James Sharp.
Penny Black's insurance week - 24 March
There was much talk about the imminent arrival of driverless cars at Post's Motor Claims 2015 event, but those dedicated visitors who stayed until the penultimate session of the day - such as Penny, a keen motorist who is often found pootling around town…
Penny Black’s Insurance Week - 19 March
Technology is not Penny’s forte.
Penny Black’s Insurance Week - 12 March
Cultural artefacts lauded by their home nations can sometimes leave visitors cold.