Throwback Thursday: Oil slick unpicked; BSE liability
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to May 1990 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history: an oil slick off the Devon coast and Commercial Union was feeling under the weather.
24 May 1990: £2m bill for Devon slick
Liability bills from the UK’s worst oil slick for more than 20 years should not exceed £2m, the insurers involved told Post’s Gavin Souter.
About 1,000 tonnes of
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