Penny Black
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 21 January 2016
While many of the insurance news stories at the turn of the year concerned the misery of the floods there was also some good news to start 2016.
Penny Black's New Year 2016
As the insurance industry rings in the New Year, Penny Black asked commentators how they like to celebrate and what resolutions they will be making for 2016.
Penny Black's Christmas disasters 2015
Penny Black has asked insurers to share their stories of Christmas disasters. Loss adjusters have also told her about their most festive business claims.
Penny Black's Christmas questions 2015: What does an insurer's Christmas look like?
What are insurers and brokers up to at Christmas? Post has asked them how they celebrate the festive season and found out a lot of them like to hear the bells ringing out for Christmas Day.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 17 December 2015
Penny marvels at ‘movel’ approvals.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 10 December
Penny is not averse to the odd practical joke but prank calls really get her back up.
Penny Black's Social World - 3 December 2015
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Penny Black's Social World - 26 November 2015
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Penny Black's Insurance Week - 26 November 2015
A robber shouldn’t target an insurer’s chief digital officer – even if all his family’s smartphones are conveniently charging by a kitchen window overnight.
Penny Black's Social World - 12 November 2015
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Penny Black's Insurance Week - 12 November 2015
A policy renewal letter ‘sent in error’ has given national newspapers the opportunity to partake in one of their favourite activities – bashing insurance companies.
Penny Black's Social World - 5 November 2015
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Penny Black's Insurance Week - 5 November 2015
Last week, Penny was inundated with all manner of last-ditch rugby fun before the World Cup was finally hoisted above the heads of New Zealand.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 29 October 2015
Penny feared the worst when the Met Office announced that it would allow the general public to suggest names for future UK windstorms.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 22 October 2015
Penny was reminded of her youth when the member of a recent panel on captives discussing longevity confided that computers didn’t exist when he started working.
Penny Black's Insurance Week: 8 October 2015
Last week, Penny was filled with dread as the calendar turned to October and the countdown to her most hated month of the year began.
Penny Black's Insurance Week - 1 October 2015
Penny finds some things dreadfully predictable, including the way the English do things ‘a bit differently’.
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.