Throwback Thursday: Churchill’s pet plan
Insurance Post’s Throwback Thursday steps back in time to March 1996 to remind you what was going on this week in insurance history when Churchill was hoping to buy Petplan.
28 March 1996: Churchill’s Petplan ambitionThirty years ago Churchill was in advanced talks to buy the UK’s biggest pet insurer Petplan.
Insurance Post reported a successful deal would start another
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