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March 11, 2024

Working from home – insurance matters

Following the successive lockdowns during the recent Covid pandemic, many people were clearly forced to work in any way they could from home. Perhaps the bigger surprise, though, is how working from home – or “hybrid” working (a little from home and a little from the office) – has persisted once the pandemic has passed. […]

Things to check when getting car insurance

Perhaps because it’s a legal requirement, arranging or renewing your car insurance can seem like a merely routine chore. In fact, the agreement between you and your insurer involves much more than that – essentially based on mutual trust. For that trust to work, you each rely on full disclosure of all the relevant information: […]

February 7, 2024

Household insurance and the importance of maintenance

After at least 10 named storms battered the UK during the autumn and winter seasons, it makes sense that the month of March is typically the time to repair and maintain your home after the winter’s assault and as the weather transitions from spring to summer. And it’s not just a question of seasonal good […]

Commercial combined insurance

If you are running a small to medium-sized business, you will be aware of all the perils and risks that threaten its smooth and profitable operation. You’ll also know that the best way of protecting your enterprise against those risks is through appropriately targeted insurance. Along the way, you’ve probably noticed that it’s possible to […]

January 10, 2024

What is Director and Officers Insurance?

However large or small your business, some activities are more likely than others to be central to its success. Your business is almost certainly driven by the direction given by key decisions and actions taken by the company’s directors and leading officers. Like many things in business, however, the critical role played by directors and […]

The importance of cyber insurance

One in three businesses in the UK – and as many as two out of every three large businesses – suffered cyber attacks in the previous year, according to the Cyber Security Breaches Survey published by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology on the 19th of April 2023. What is more, the government’s official […]

December 11, 2023

What is rent guarantee insurance?

What is almost certain to give a landlord sleepless nights? That’s likely to be the tenant who cannot or wilfully chooses not to pay the rent when it falls due. That rental income is the very lifeblood of any landlord’s business after all – without it, the landlord might face dire financial difficulties and, perhaps, […]

The importance of travel insurance

Since the last of the Covid restrictions were lifted, the UK’s travel industry has surged back to levels last seen before the pandemic. Indeed, according to an article in Travel Weekly on the 13th of September 2023, the travel and tourism sector is expected to exceed the £248.5 billion value it represented before Covid in […]

November 7, 2023

Your commercial premises over the Christmas period

Like many a business owner, you’re probably looking forward to the prospect of heightened trading and bumper sales in the runup to Christmas. Although that anticipated increase in activity is likely to prove more than welcome, the holiday period also brings several issues and circumstances that might leave your business rather more vulnerable than usual. […]

Season’s greetings from everyone at Alan Blunden

As one of the Directors at Alan Blunden Insurance Brokers, I’m looking forward to the conclusion of yet another successful year for our business. The Christmas holidays will soon be upon us – a time when I hope to get the chance to enjoy the break with my family as I take a bit of […]

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