By the time this
month’s edition of Insurance
People hits your mat your thoughts will probably be turning towards
the BIBA conference. The “Shaping our Futures” event will be coming once again
from the popular Manchester venue that everyone so enjoyed last year. The
annual BIBA showcase means different things to different people so we decided
to take the 
pulse of some of the attendees. Jamie
Marchant, (right) Marketing and Communications Director at Groupama Insurances
and veteran BIBA conference man, offers his take on why attending is worth the
effort. As do other luminaries, such as Dave Parry of NIG and Richard Webb of Manchester
Underwriting Management.
No doubt one of
the topics that will be raised at the many formal and informal networking
sessions will be the seemingly endless red tape emanating from Brussels that
has the potential to choke the insurance market. Certainly Terry Wellard thinks so. He believes there is a
danger it will throttle innovation and entrepreneurship. In his feature he
contends that some of the proposed changes, such as the EC Gender Directive,
will positively strangle it.
Another subject
likely to get an airing is one that we have covered extensively in Insurance People,
fraud. Paul Priestley, (left) Head of Counter Fraud at
Hastings Direct, knows the subject inside out and he believes that insurance
fraud prevention needs to become part of an insurance business’s culture. As he
points out, businesses not taking fraud seriously will surely suffer the
consequences.
Derek Findlayson, Commercial Director at Keychoice,
returns to our pages with some sage advice for brokers on e-mail marketing. He
argues that brokers should really give it a try and offers some tips for those
that would like to.
Chris Bonsall, (right) Innovation and Training Manager at
Auto Windscreens, offers an insight into the little known world of the
windscreen. Gone are the days when it was simply considered an accessory. These
days it plays a vital role in vehicle safety.
Uncle Alan Cleary (left) is
back, this time helping out those who are becoming increasingly vexed by
incomprehensible corporate slogans. Not so much a case of mixing metaphors,
more one of mixing smart consultants with IQ challenged business leaders
perhaps?
Finally, we
finish where we started: BIBA. Andrew Newman,
the Insurance People Editor,
hardly a slouch when it comes to BIBA attendance records, gives newer attendees
a peek into a BIBA that existed in a time before the exhibition hall became a
contender for theme park of the year…
As always,
industry experts write the features in Insurance
People, which means you get insights that you simply can’t find
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