Foster Leighton & Co Ltd

Reel Sixty, Wedding films and Family Media Movies

Reel Sixty are a production company making DVD’s for Weddings and other corporate events. Quite apart from cover on the expensive kit needed to do their job, they were also concerned about the professional risks of failure to deliver what their clients were paying for, that is the perfect capture of the event on film or tape.

Fortunately we were able to source the perfect answer to their demands and needs; a combined policy specially written for the Media Industry which combined Damage and Liability including professional Indemnity, all at a reasonable premium. Even better, this was a continuous cover payable by interest free instalments until t...

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Riviera Hot Tubs

Buy on line – get into hot water?

When Elaine Dyer, one of our Account Executives called to see Riviera Hot Tubs, she found that the Traders policy they had bought not only had a 10% Contribution clause, because of the construction of the building, but also there were major cover deficiencies. The company install hot tubs anywhere in the UK and have also have completed a number of contracts in Europe. The European work was completely uninsured. T...

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Recent Help for Charities

Over the years, Foster Leighton has developed an expertise in providing risk management and insurance solutions to Charities and other “Not-for-Profit” organisations. Many more of these bodies have been set up of late, often as spin-offs from Central or Local Government and run by individuals with little or no previous experience in the commercial world who have found our advice invaluable. Here are the details of some we have been pleased to assist recently. Each provided us with its own unique challenge in arranging the right cover at the right price.

Living Options is an organisation which exists to ensure people with physical and/or sensory disabilities and deaf p...

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Hillcrest

The Green Shoots of Recovery

Coaxing someone back to mental well-being is a gratifying feeling that can make efforts seem worthwhile to those concerned. Foster Leighton is proud to have been recently involved in just such a project. Hillcrest Branch Ltd is a new start-up social enterprise company formed this year by Grace Michaels to provide contract gardening services, giving people with mental health issues the chance of paid employment.

Grace was born in Devon and trained as a Horticulturist. She joined Hil...

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A 21st Century Jarndyce & Jarndyce?

Jarndyce and Jarndyce was of course the fictional court case in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens. Foster Leighton was recently involved in a case which had latter day similarities with the famous Dickens saga. Both involved the fate of a large inheritance, and had been dragging on interminably because of problems in winding up the Estate. That is until Foster Leighton became involved.

The circumstances involved a large property. On the death of the ow...

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Not all Insurance Brokers are the same

We contacted a substantial family owned company who were dealing with a large provincial broker and had done so for many years. The Managing Director was reluctant to move because he thought:

o As he was already dealing with a large provincial broker he felt he would be getting both the best price and service available

o There was no new "revolutionary" approach to insurance

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Devon County Show

Foster Leighton was recently asked to insure All Risks of loss or damage to a set of jumbo jet Airport Passenger steps. Nothing especially hazardous about that you might think, until you find that the enquiry came from the Devon Agricultural Association, organisers of the annual Devon County Show at Westpoint, near Exeter.

The steps were to be used as a prop by the Bolddog Lings Freestyle Motorcycle Display Team who were proposing to jump over it from a ramp as part of their display. Not unnaturally, the owners of the steps, Exeter

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Case Studies

Recent Case Studies

Reel Sixty, Wedding films and Family Media Movies

Riviera Hot Tubs

Recent Help for Charities

Hillcrest

A 21st Century Jarndyce & Jarndyce?

Not all Insurance Brokers are the same

Devon County Show