Insurance inquiries
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I write, in my capacity as chairman of the Insurance Panel of the Road Haulage Association, in reference to the (as usual) excellent "Cropper's Column" in your issue of November 24.
Mr. Cropper's themeis the possible desirability of having, (presumably for the R HA), an organization for buyers of insurance which can negotiate with the British Insurance Association and the Corporation of Insurance Brokers (of which all Panel Brokers are members).
He, rather brusquely it may be thought, dismisses the R HA panel from his consideration as being "insurance wallahs" who cannot do the same job as practical operators. I wonder if he is right to do this, since the R HA panel has done and is doing just the job which he envisages.
It is true that the extent of work that the R HA panel can do, in thig respect, is governed by the amount of information which comes into the possession Of the panel from dealing with their own business and from other members of the R HA.
Perhaps a (partial) solution to Mr. Cropper's theme could be achieved by his perSuading R HA members to put their enquiries and suggestions to the panel via the Insurance department of the R HA.
L. A. EDWARDES, FCIB Ernest A. Notcutt and Co Ltd. Beckenham, Kent