Firm analysis

Admiral Insurance Company Limited complaint analysis

A public analysis page covering published Financial Ombudsman decisions involving Admiral Insurance Company Limited, including outcome context, product mix, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

1,965

Firm-specific decision volume in the public corpus

Upheld rate

38.6%

758 upheld decisions

Page summary

1,965 published decisions involving Admiral Insurance Company Limited, with product mix, upheld-rate context, complaint themes, precedent signals, and representative cases.

Published decisions

1,965

Firm-specific decision volume in the public corpus

Upheld rate

38.6%

758 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 11 Aug 2026

How to use this page

Read the metrics first, then the ranked view.

The top-line cards show scale and outcome context. The ranked view and representative decisions show where the slice is concentrated and what the published decision set actually looks like.

Published decisions

1,965

Firm-specific decision volume in the public corpus

Upheld rate

38.6%

758 upheld decisions

Leading product

Insurance (excluding PPI)

1,351 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Delay In Claim Handling

251 tagged decisions

Admiral Insurance Company Limited at a glance

Analysis

Admiral Insurance Company Limited appears in 1,965 published decisions in this corpus. 38.6% of those decisions were upheld, which gives a public view of how often complaints involving this firm ended in a fully upheld outcome in the final published set.

Insurance (excluding PPI) is the firm’s clearest product exposure in the published decisions, with 1,351 decisions and an upheld rate of 39.1%.

  • Latest active year in the published data: 2026 (2 decisions)
  • Most common complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling
  • Most common precedent signal: Disp

Volume and outcome trajectory

Analysis

Admiral Insurance Company Limited's decision trail runs from 2013 to 2026. That range gives enough public history to see whether complaint exposure has been broad-based or concentrated into certain years.

In the latest year represented here, Admiral Insurance Company Limited appeared in 2 published decisions with an upheld rate of 50.0%.

  • 2026: 2 decisions, 50.0% upheld
  • 2025: 2 decisions, 0.0% upheld
  • 2024: 9 decisions, 66.7% upheld
  • 2023: 11 decisions, 45.5% upheld
  • 2022: 194 decisions, 36.1% upheld

Themes, products, and precedent signals

Analysis

Delay In Claim Handling is the strongest complaint-theme signal tied to Admiral Insurance Company Limited in the published decisions. In this corpus, those themes are the most stable public proxy for complaint “type”.

Disp, Icobs, Fsma, and others are the most visible precedent signals in the firm’s published decisions. That gives extra context on the rules and fairness arguments appearing most often around the firm.

  • Insurance (excluding PPI): 1,351 decisions
  • Second complaint theme: Non-disclosure Or Misrepresentation
  • Second precedent signal: Icobs

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN-637145611 Aug 2026Not upheld

Admiral Insurance Company Limited · Insurance

For the reasons given above I don’t uphold Mr A’s complaint. So I won’t be asking Admiral Insurance Company Limited to do anything.

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DRN-643129831 Jul 2026Upheld

Admiral Insurance Company Limited · Insurance

For the reasons I have set out above, my final decision is that I uphold this complaint. I direct Admiral Insurance Company Limited to: • Reimburse the court fine and costs of £1,574 Mr A was required to pay, plus 8% simple interest, from the date Mr A paid them until the date he is reimbursed.

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DRN-554324208 Aug 2025Not upheld

Admiral Insurance Company Limited · Insurance

DRN-5543242 The complaint Mr C’s complaint is about trade public liability insurance cover with Admiral Insurance Company Limited. Mr C is represented in this complaint but for ease, in the main, I will refer to Mr C only. What happened Mr C took out the policy with Admiral in September... (7 pages)

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DRN-538699617 Apr 2025Not upheld

Admiral Insurance Company Limited · Insurance

DRN-5386996 The complaint Mr E complains about how Admiral Insurance Company Limited (“Admiral”) removed a discount from his car insurance policy which used a telematics device to gather data about his driving. What happened Mr E had a car insurance policy with Admiral. The policy requi... (3 pages)

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DRN-519004630 Dec 2024Upheld

Admiral Insurance Company Limited · Insurance

DRN-5190046 The complaint Ms M complains about the settlement that Admiral Insurance Company Limited offered her for the theft of her car following a claim made on her motor insurance policy, and about the upset this caused her. She wants a higher settlement and for the policy excess to... (3 pages)

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