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This is why we set up The Aircrew Insurance Group in 1991. A small group of us wanted a legal facility which was available to individuals and not dependent on membership of any other organisation.
I gave a personal financial guarantee of several thousand pounds to underwriters to get the thing off the ground. Fortunately for me they were gentlemenly enough not to hold me to it when we failed spectacularly to achieve the forecast membership. We survive to this day as Aircrew Legal Protection Limited (
www.alpl.com) and we currently have between 2 and 3 thousand people on risk. This survival is due largely to the database of loyal clients and help and advice from Underwriters and Lloyds brokers.
It's been a rough ride at times keeping the scheme viable whilst being slagged off and undermined from various quarters. I'm not complaining in fact I've quite enjoyed it as my skin has thickened. When I retire I might write an account of it all. It will be more complex than an Ian Rankin novel.
One of the main criticisms is that we are a business. It would be very difficult to be otherwise. We make no apology for this after all applying for cover under our policy is voluntary.
Is this a commercial plug??? Well yes...!
Stands by for incoming.