The 'bard of Salford' appointed by Hiscox as its first '(Under)Writer in Residence' - Seite 2

Are business owners ready for the unexpected?

New data released by the insurer highlights that a quarter (26%) of small businesses don't have business insurance to help when things go wrong and amongst those that do, 23% have made a claim for something they could never have predicted would happen.

Further statistics showed that in the continued tough economic climate, 40% of small business owners who do have insurance are thinking about making cuts to it and over a third (36%) felt a business should be generating more than £25,000 a year before getting cover. Despite being a legal requirement³ for most businesses that employ staff, 34% don't think insurance is a necessary outlay until a business takes on a second employee.

Link to John reading the poems is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/xeb148nyxzqo6jhszoen8/h?rlkey=bhnka65c4 ...

To hear and see John Cooper Clarke's claims-inspired poems please visit http://www.hiscox.co.uk/JCC

Notes to editors 

1.     The (Under)Writer in Residence anthology

The bull and the farmer 
A farmer whose prize bull suddenly dies
Must say his goodbye to next year's prize 
The best in the biz 
They were selling his fizz
Then everything went in the red
It's spermatazoa 
Isn't a goer 
Now the poor animal's dead 
But the farmer's earnings 
May yet be returning 
The insurance paid up instead.

The baboon and the photographer
A wildlife snapper in the Kenyan greenery
Figured baboons were just part of the scenery
Until they swiped all the fella's machinery
Cheeky monkeys or what?
Still Hiscox paid on the spot.

Cat and cat
They fought like cat and cat - who's that?
This client's two kittens in a spat 
A cup of coffee got spilt - evidence of their destructive guilt 
There disabled on the kitchen table 
His laptop sabotaged it can't be rebuilt 
Hiscox responded with admirable haste 
And instantly the machine replaced 
So put this on your blog
It wouldn't have happened with a dog. 

Electric fence 
For a citizen in the countryside 
It could have been worse he might have died 
Most people would rather suspend their suspense