Articles by Gareth Roberts - Page 811

Saab GB has trimmed its workforce to just 16 employees after its sales team was made redundant, including fleet boss Paul Adler, a week before Christmas.

MPs have called on the insurance industry to abandon sharp practices in the management of car accident claims to curb the runaway cost of motor insurance premiums. The cross party Transport Committee has also called for the Government to impose a higher threshold for the payment of any compensation in whiplash cases.

Ford has signed its first fleet – Skillnet – to its no-fee accident management programme after revealing the scale of the problem with the industry’s current business model.

Renault UK’s fleet boss Darren Payne has been appointed the manufacturer’s new sales director with immediate effect. Payne will now head up a sales department combining the previously separate commercial operations (sales network and franchising operations) and fleet and commercial vehicle operations departments.

Controlling costs may have been the main priority during the downturn, but risk is inextricably linked.