April 11th 2017
The average UK adult spends 9.5 hours a day looking at a screen, whether that’s at a desktop computer at work, or flicking onto Facebook during TV adverts. Our time spent on handheld devices alone meanwhile, has increased by nearly 400% in usage time over the four years, or 90% year on year, and our […]
April 4th 2017
Accidents happen, but the manufacturing sector is exposed to a significantly higher risk of personal injury at work than other industries. Each year, around 3% of manufacturing industry workers suffers an illness they believe to be work related. First aid is a vital skill in all workplaces, and its place in your manufacturing business’s office, […]
March 26th 2017
For most of us, insurance is a necessary facet of everyday life – as well as forming a large portion of the economic world we live in. The UK insurance market is the largest in Europe and the third largest in the world, and according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI) it employs around […]
March 22nd 2017
Reports of identity theft reached their highest levels yet in 2016, says fraud prevention organisation Cifas. They have warned that young people are a growing target for fraudsters, with the number of victims aged under-21 rising by a third from the previous year. There were 172,919 incidents of identity theft last year, representing 53.3% of […]
March 16th 2017
As the Government slashes the discount rate used to calculate life-changing injury payouts, Hine Insurance explains what this means - and what impact it will have on your insurance.
March 10th 2017
If you’re an employer in the UK, it’s your legal duty to prevent illegal working, regardless of the number of employees you employ. The ramifications of not checking employees’ right to work can be costly and damaging. The law on preventing illegal working is part of the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. The Government […]
March 8th 2017
If your organisation or charity benefits from the assistance of volunteers, you’ll know how gratefully received their help can be. Giving up their time and effort to work for you, volunteers can gain experience and personal gratification – but without pay, they are not classed as employees. Badly worded volunteer agreements can inadvertently act as […]
March 3rd 2017
Defined benefit (DB) pension schemes are more widely known as ‘final salary’ or ‘career average’ pensions and have long been considered the crème-de-la-crème of pensions. They are often described as ‘gold plated’ because they promise to pay a generous, guaranteed and inflation proofed income for life, based on your final or career average salary upon […]
February 21st 2017
In this day and age, it is impossible for business owners to ignore the significance of the internet with cybercrime rates growing just as quickly as the positive developments of the digital world. A joint study by LogRhythm, Gigamon and Forescout Technologies – three tech firms with respective backgrounds in security intelligence, traffic visibility and […]
February 14th 2017
Drivers are being warned that car insurance premiums could be set to soar by as much as 50% if plans to increase compensation payouts get the green light. Law firms which specialise in injury compensation, often referred to as ‘ambulance chasers’, are lobbying minsters to oblige insurers to give bigger payouts to victims of serious […]
