''The company has good links with Philip Green (BHS and Arcadia). A call to the retail tycoon and he sent over Harris, one of the country’s best insurance loss assessors, who is negotiating on Asos’s behalf with it’s insurers.'' The Observer
Harris Balcombe appointed on Yates’s as Blackpool’s history goes up in smoke!
Harris Balcombe, the Uk’s premier claims specialists and loss assessors has been retained by Town & City Pub Company, the owners of the Yates’s wine lodge chain, to manage the insurance claim arising from a major fire which ripped through the historic heart of Blackpool.
Now – Fighting the £2 million blaze 2009 Then – Yates’s in its heyday 1950
The fire broke out just after 3am on Sunday, 15 February in the vicinity of a pet shop on Talbot Street, opposite the North Pier. It went on to engulf Yates’s Wine Lodge, one of Blackpool’s landmark buildings, which has been virtually destroyed. The octagonal building which originally opened in 1868 as The Theatre Royal, where Oscar Wilde entertained audiences, was purchased at the end of the nineteenth century by Peter Yates to be established as a wine lodge and a favourite watering hole of celebrities and politicians. During the last year Yates’s has been the subject of a major refurbishment by its current owners.
At its height almost 100 firefighters and 15 appliances were in attendance, until the blaze was brought under control about seven hours later. A major loss team headed by Harris Balcombe Partner, Paul Lawrence and local Director, Adrian Gilluly is now liaising closely with Certo Loss Adjusters representing insurers, to manage the owner's multi-million pound losses.
Flood claims in Cumbria and southern Scotland could exceed £100m, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI). Following the highest level of rainfall (314mm) since records began, over 1300 homes and many businesses, particularly in the Cockermouth, Keswick and Workington areas were severely flooded by the deluge and a major emergency response put into operation.
BIBA 2009 – delivering value with a fresh approach to claims management
The recently merged Harris Balcombe LLP will be exhibiting on stand K17 at the BIBA conference, which is to be held this year at Manchester Central, May 13-15. So what’s new? Well, since their merger last summer the UK’s two foremost claims management companies will be sharing a stand!
Harris Balcombe appointed on Yates’s as Blackpool’s history goes up in smoke!
Harris Balcombe, the Uk’s premier claims specialists and loss assessors has been retained by Town & City Pub Company, the owners of the Yates’s wine lodge chain, to manage the insurance claim arising from a major fire which ripped through the historic heart of Blackpool.
Harris merge with Balcombe to lead the claims market - 12/8/2008
Two of the most established firms within the insurance claims profession, Harris Claims Group and Balcombe Group are delighted to announce that they have merged to form a major new partnership, Harris Balcombe LLP.
