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Posts from the ‘Science & Technology’ Category

  • Olympic-Proof Your Business on May 10th, 2012
      Have you considered how the Olympic Games might affect your business? Reduced workforce, slower internet services, disruption from the extra security? Time for a quick insurance and risk management review:   Check alternative routes into work for your staff – can some staff work from home? Olympics sites are listed here (10 outside of London). Ensure [...]
  • The Rising Costs of Risks in Cyberspace on March 1st, 2012
    While legislation struggles to keep pace, insurance steps in to help Business risk in cyberspace is getting expensive. Data security breaches and social media activities are two red-hot issues that expose businesses of every size to huge financial and reputational risk. With legislators on both sides of the Atlantic rushing through new laws to keep [...]
  • Win a Kindle at Bench-to-Boardroom 2012 on February 22nd, 2012
    Join us at Bench-to-Boardroom 2012 and win a Kindle Tuesday 6th March at the Newmarket Racecourse   Hanna Beaumont and Elaine Redington of our Science & Technology division will be at the exhibition to answer any insurance related questions. You can also enter into our Kindle prize draw, visit us at stand 3 and leave [...]
  • Protect the Fruits of Your Invention! on February 16th, 2012
    Sci-tech broker La Playa comes to the aid of vulnerable R&D labs with the launch of Lab Portfolio™, a flexible, modular insurance policy designed for start-up, early stage and SME research and development businesses. An R&D Insurance Checklist is included. 60% of businesses in the UK are inadequately insured. 70% either won’t reopen or will [...]
  • Social Media – Cyber Perils on March 4th, 2011
    So your company has a Facebook page with 1000 “likes”, your LinkedIn profile is connected with umpteen specialised groups and you have a devoted crew of Twitter followers.  Great!  We can all see the benefits of the ever-evolving social media websites, networking communities, forums and blogs, but are you covered if things start to turn [...]