The future of 14,000 motor insurance policies in Ireland is in confusion after the Enterprise Insurance Company, which is regulated out of Gibraltar, was declared insolvent. Established in 2004, the insurer only started selling car policies here through a brokerage network less than three years ago. It emerged late yesterday that Gibraltar regulators who had…
The Central Bank has advised 14,000 Irish motorists caught up in the collapse yesterday of a Gibralta-based insurer, Enterprise Insurance Company, to seek alternative cover. Many of the people affected may not be immediately aware, as policies were written through brokers around the country viaWexford-based insurance underwriting agency, Wrightway Underwriting. While the Central Bank in…
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Indias corporate litigation domain is on the verge of a major overhaul as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government seeks to improve the ease of doing business with a series of measures to accelerate dispute resolution. Over the last two years, the government has already unveiled a number of measures to ensure that the time…
Photo by Max Efrein. The Prescott areas sole Hastings is closing along with the companys 122 other brick and mortar locations throughout the country. No firm closure date has been released. PRESCOTT – The fate of Hastings has been determined. The company has been purchased by a joint venture that will…
The federal government was warned as early as 2012 that unscrupulous providers were rorting the vocational education loans scheme and that there were no safeguards to protect against the abuse of vulnerable students, blowing the scheme out from $325 million to $3 billion in less than three years. It was not until 2015 that the…
The fast food industry can be a brutal business. When it is wrapped around a franchise system, it can be even more so. The latest to feel the pain is one of the country’s biggest pizza chains, Eagle Boys, which plunged into administration a week ago, throwing its franchise network into panic. Over the past…
A former England and Wycombe Wanderers footballer who turned to armed robbery after racking up gambling debts from a habit he picked up in the top flight has been jailed for 15 years. Nathan Ashton, 29, who played premiership football for Fulham before starting a career in the lower divisions targeted betting shops across the…
Financial watchdogs described the nations fiscal debt as alarming and warned structural problems must be addressed as it unveiled the state of Italy’s tax agencies. The IMF published a report this week titled Italy: Enhancing Governance and Effectiveness of the Fiscal Agencies, as part of the Funds Capacity Development function, which aims to help countries…
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