by Alicia Pollock | May 7, 2026 | Commercial Insurance, Expert Insights
Machines are the silent heartbeat of your business. As long as they’re humming, pressing, cooling, or conveying, everything feels fine. But when a critical piece of equipment suddenly shudders to a halt, the silence is deafening—and expensive. If your operations rely...
by Alicia Pollock | May 5, 2026 | Commercial Insurance, Expert Insights
When businesses talk about rising costs, the focus usually lands on the obvious. Fuel. Electricity. Salaries. The visible increases. The ones you can point to. But that’s not where most of the pressure is building. It’s happening elsewhere. Quietly. Across multiple...
by Alicia Pollock | Apr 9, 2026 | Commercial Insurance, Expert Insights, Personal Insurance
Most people don’t read their insurance policy. Not properly, anyway. We skim it. We sign it. We file it away. And we carry on assuming that if something goes wrong… we’re covered. Most of the time, that’s true. Until it isn’t. Recently, a few clients have asked a...
by Alicia Pollock | Mar 11, 2026 | Advice, Brokerage, Commercial Insurance
January is a wonderful time for business plans. Spreadsheets look beautiful. Strategies feel clear. Revenue projections march confidently across the page. For a few weeks, it genuinely feels like this might finally be the year where everything runs exactly according...
by Alicia Pollock | Nov 4, 2025 | Advice, Commercial Insurance
Here we go again… The final stretch of the year. Mariah Carey warms up her vocal cords. Trolleys start crashing into each other at busy shopping centres. And while businesses prepare for their biggest trading months, criminals are also sharpening their tools—and...
by Alicia Pollock | Jul 23, 2025 | Commercial Insurance, Expert Insights, Personal Insurance
It’s all fun and games… until someone sets fire to a warehouse. South Africans are no strangers to unexpected disruptions. From load-shedding to looting, we’ve learned to expect the unexpected—and plan for it. That’s where SASRIA comes in. SASRIA (South African...
