Specialist fleet insurance broker and event sponsor McCarron Coates used the recent CMAC Big Coach Conversation to further demonstrate its commitment to the sector by presenting its brand-new Accelerate proposition, developed in conjunction with solicitors JMW, whose Partner and Head of Commercial Road Transport Laura Hadzik was one of the event’s key speakers.
Accelerate offers coach and bus operators with a policy providing comprehensive legal cover aimed at protecting the business, its finances, its directors and the O-licence, as well as access to a range of other specialist legal advice, and covers both legal fees and a settlement figure of up to £50,000, if a case is lost.
It delivers pro-active, upfront legal advice ahead of any employment tribunal or Traffic Commissioner’s hearing, rather than when things have progressed too far, the broker says, and covers any investigation or case mounted by authorities including HSE, DVSA, Trading Standards, the Police or the Environment Agency. It also protects an operator, should an employment dispute result in a tribunal, and provides legal advice for any criminal matters relating to the use of the operator’s commercial vehicles. McCarron Coates director Paul Coates attended the event, accompanied by a new face within the team, Morgan Bryan, who has recently joined the business after working as a specialist insurance broker at Gallagher Insurance.
Paul said: “The Big Coach Conversation provided us with another opportunity to interact with our clients at an event that is coach community focused and seeking to strengthen the resilience of that community. Our new Accelerate proposition does the same and dovetails perfectly with our RTC Crisis Line offering. Whilst the former protects the ‘entity,’ in terms of the coach business and its managerial team, the latter is concerned with protecting the driver, their livelihood and the impacts of their behaviours on the corporate body.”
