Insurance Complaints
Posted by admin | Under Accounting Monday Jul 26, 2010As of late, the UK has had an enormous amount of insurance complaints regarding the payment protection insurance, or PPI. These insurance policies have been mis-sold to people all over the UK, so a large number of people have been effected. The number of people filing this type of insurance complaint are growing by the day.
Payment protection insurance is basically an insurance policy that will pay out a monthly, tax free sum in the even that you are unable to work because of accidental happenings, long term illness or involuntary redundancy. Therefore, whatever credits commitments you might have like loans, credit card repayments or mortgage loans will be covered partially or in full by the insurance. Depending on the policy, you may also have living expenses covered. Anyone with this coverage will not have to worry about their debts while they recover from an accident or illness or until they find another job.
While this type of insurance may be right for some people, there are many who are forced into buying expensive and unsuitable payment protection insurance along with their loans, credit card loans or mortgage loans. In other situations, consumers have purchased this insurance without realizing that it is not mandatory due to misleading sales pitches by insurance company staff. There have been large companies that have already faced expensive fines for their misleading selling of payment protection insurance. Some consumers have proven that their insurance complaint was just by proving that they were mis-sold a payment protection insurance policy.
A company can be misleading about this type of insurance in several ways. If the company did not explain the product properly, did not give the right advice when the policy was sold or if the insurance staff did not ask the right questions to assess the customer’s suitability for this insurance, it may very well be considered a valid insurance complaint on the insurance provider company. Some customers were not aware that this insurance was included in their policy in any way, which will also constitute a fair complaint and a highly likely win in court for the customer.














