Published decisions
16,981
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Year + product analysis
A curated public analysis of Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2014, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.
Page summary
16,981 published FOS decisions in Payment protection insurance (PPI) during 2014, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.
Published decisions
16,981
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
19.0%
3,221 upheld decisions
Latest published decision 29 Dec 2014
Published decisions
16,981
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
19.0%
3,221 upheld decisions
Leading firm
Bank of Scotland Plc
3,384 decisions
Leading complaint theme
Affordability Assessment Failure
3,094 tagged decisions
16,981 published decisions in the corpus sit in Payment protection insurance (PPI) for 2014. 19.0% of those decisions were upheld, which makes this a strong public cross-section for understanding how one product behaved in one specific year.
Bank of Scotland Plc is the most visible firm inside this year-product slice, with 3,384 published decisions.
Bank of Scotland Plc, Capital One (Europe) plc, Barclays Bank Plc, and others are the firms most often associated with Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2014. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.
affordability assessment failure, communication failure, delay in claim handling, and others are the strongest complaint-theme signals in this year-product combination.
The advisory layer for Payment protection insurance (PPI) points to recurring handling implications here, including review consumer credit act 1974 precedent (appears in 5.2% of cases), review disp precedent (appears in 5.1% of cases), review icobs precedent (appears in 4.6% of cases), and others.
There is no strong “what loses” signal exposed for this product at the current advisory granularity.
Representative cases
5 examples shown
Mr and Mrs A complain that Bank of Scotland plc (trading as “Halifax”) mis-sold them a monthly premium payment protection insurance (“PPI) policy alongside a secured loan in 2002. The policy included cover for accident, sickness and unemployment. It also included life cover. Under the te... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr and Mrs Z say Bank of Scotland plc (trading as “Halifax”) mis-sold them a payment protection insurance (PPI) policy.backgroundMr and Mrs Z bought the policy in 1997 at the same time as taking out a loan in a Halifax branch. The loan included an amount to pay for the policy. The po... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr and Mrs Q, through their representative claims management company, complain that Bank of Scotland Plc (BoS) mis-sold them regular premium payment protection insurance (PPI) with a long term secured personal loan.backgroundMr and Mrs Q took out a personal loan in 2002 during a meetin... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr and Mrs A say Lloyds Bank PLC mis-sold them a mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) policy.backgroundThis complaint is about a monthly premium MPPI policy taken out with a mortgage in 2003. Our adjudicator didn’t uphold the complaint. Mr and Mrs A disagreed with the adjudica... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr C complains that in, September 1997, National Westminster Bank Plc (NatWest) mis-sold him a payment protection insurance (PPI) policy for his credit card.backgroundThe background to this complaint and my initial conclusions are set out in my provisional decision of 14 November 2014. ... (2 pages)
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