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At GM Insurance Brokers, we have been spending some time learning about the exposures that all businesses face, simply because they own and use a computer …… these problems multiply as soon as you c...

The number of workers in the waste and recycling sector fatally injured at work in the last year has more than doubled in comparison to 2015/16, according to the Health and Safety Executiv...

Inspections without prior warning to waste and recycling businesses by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will begin next week, as part of a campaign that runs to the end of the year. ...

Why do we offer this cover? Many Commercial Combined, Office or Property Owners policies offer similar cover as standard, embedded within the insurers own suite of policy cov...

And What You Can Do To Avoid Them   At GM Insurance Brokers, we have noticed that motor insurance costs, including fleet insurance, has been on the rise of late. Acc...

Industry looks towards meaningful delivery of the reform. Insurers have welcomed the new whiplash legislation proposals introduced in today’s (21 June) Queen Speech.   Announcing the go...

The Government has announced that the standard rate of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) in the United Kingdom will increase from 10% to 12% with effect from 1 June 2017. This will be the third rise si...

On the 1st March 2017 the Lord Chancellor announced plans to change personal injury compensation, for the first time since 2001. The announcement related to the Ogden Report, will offer the p...

What does it mean for business? The last Insurance Act was passed in 1906; arguably a simpler time and certainly one with very different requirements. The updated Act has be...

From  01 October 2016 , the standard rate of Insurance Premium Tax (IPT) will rise by 0.5% from 9.5% to 10.0%. This is the second increase to IPT in less than twelve months. Reason for the incre...