Year + product analysis

Insurance (excluding PPI) complaints in 2016

A curated public analysis of Insurance (excluding PPI) in 2016, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.

Page summary

6,083 published FOS decisions in Insurance (excluding PPI) during 2016, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

6,083

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

33.7%

2,051 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 30 Dec 2016

Published decisions

6,083

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

33.7%

2,051 upheld decisions

Leading firm

UK Insurance Limited

483 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Delay In Claim Handling

1,126 tagged decisions

Insurance (excluding PPI) in 2016

6,083 published decisions in the corpus sit in Insurance (excluding PPI) for 2016. 33.7% of those decisions were upheld, which makes this a strong public cross-section for understanding how one product behaved in one specific year.

UK Insurance Limited is the most visible firm inside this year-product slice, with 483 published decisions.

  • 2016: 6,083 decisions, 33.7% upheld
  • Leading complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling
  • Leading precedent signal: Disp

Firm concentration and issue profile

UK Insurance Limited, Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc, Ageas Insurance Limited, and others are the firms most often associated with Insurance (excluding PPI) complaints in 2016. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.

delay in claim handling, policy wording ambiguity, fraud or scam concern, and others are the strongest complaint-theme signals in this year-product combination.

  • UK Insurance Limited: 483 decisions, 30.4% upheld
  • Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc: 261 decisions, 32.2% upheld
  • Ageas Insurance Limited: 248 decisions, 39.1% upheld
  • Aviva Insurance Limited: 216 decisions, 27.3% upheld
  • AXA Insurance UK Plc: 209 decisions, 24.9% upheld

Handling implications and precedent context

The advisory layer for Insurance (excluding PPI) points to recurring handling implications here, including review disp precedent (appears in 0.5% of cases), review icobs precedent (appears in 0.5% of cases), review insurance act 2015 precedent (appears in 0.2% of cases), and others.

There is no strong “what loses” signal exposed for this product at the current advisory granularity.

  • Leading complaint theme: Delay In Claim Handling

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN228024230 Dec 2016Not upheld

Abbey Insurance Brokers Ltd · Insurance (excluding PPI)

Mr Q complained that Abbey Insurance Brokers Ltd didn’t tell him that his motor insurance policy was due to expire.backgroundIn July 2016 Mr Q was stopped by the police for driving without insurance. The police impounded his car and he was later given penalty points... (2 pages)

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DRN848033430 Dec 2016Not upheld

Calpe Insurance Company Limited · Insurance (excluding PPI)

Mr C1 and Mr C2 have complained about Calpe Insurance Company Limited (“Calpe”). They aren’t happy about the way it dealt with a claim under Mr C1’s motor insurance policy.backgroundMr C2 is a named driver on Mr C1’s policy. He notified Calpe that he had been invol... (2 pages)

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DRN049793629 Dec 2016Upheld

Premium Choice Ltd · Insurance (excluding PPI)

Mr and Mrs S complain that Premium Choice Ltd gave them misleading details about theautomatic renewal of their motor insurance policy.background Mr and Mrs S arranged two policies through Premium Choice. The one on their first car ranuntil June 2015. The one on thei... (2 pages)

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DRN065091329 Dec 2016Not upheld

UK Insurance Limited · Insurance (excluding PPI)

Mr B complained about U K Insurance Limited’s valuation of his car following his claim on his motor insurance policy. backgroundMr B’s car was damaged and UKI decided it was uneconomical to repair. So they offered him £6,880 for the market value of his car, less his... (2 pages)

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DRN143970329 Dec 2016Upheld

Aviva Insurance Limited · Insurance (excluding PPI)

Mr E complains that Aviva Insurance Limited didn’t let him know when it closed the file on a claim that had been made against him under his car insurance policy. He says, as a result, he spent £6,000 more than he should have done on car insurance over a three yea... (2 pages)

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