Published decisions
13,292
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Year + product analysis
A curated public analysis of Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2016, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.
Page summary
13,292 published FOS decisions in Payment protection insurance (PPI) during 2016, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.
Published decisions
13,292
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
31.9%
4,240 upheld decisions
Latest published decision 30 Dec 2016
Published decisions
13,292
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
31.9%
4,240 upheld decisions
Leading firm
Bank of Scotland Plc
2,259 decisions
Leading complaint theme
Affordability Assessment Failure
1,178 tagged decisions
13,292 published decisions in the corpus sit in Payment protection insurance (PPI) for 2016. 31.9% 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 2,259 published decisions.
Bank of Scotland Plc, HSBC Bank plc, Lloyds Bank PLC, and others are the firms most often associated with Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2016. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.
affordability assessment failure, delay in claim handling, communication failure, 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 F complain they were mis-sold mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) by The Co-operative Bank Plc (“Co-operative”).backgroundMr and Mrs F re-mortgaged their house with Co-operative in 2008. They say they met with an adviser in a branch of Co-operative and ... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr H says Lloyds Bank plc (Lloyds) mis-sold him a regular monthly premium payment protection insurance (PPI) policy. backgroundLloyds sold Mr H the PPI with a credit card in 1998. The PPI included unemployment, accident and sickness cover and cost around £0.79 for ev... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr and Mrs S complain that Nationwide Building Society (“Nationwide”) mis-sold them a mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) policy.backgroundMr and Mrs S took out a mortgage and MPPI policy with Nationwide in 2003. They say they were told they had to have the polic... (3 pages)
View source decisionMr D has complained that Nationwide Building Society mis-sold him single premium payment protection insurance (“PPI”).backgroundMr D and his late wife took out two loans with Nationwide in 1997 and 1999. He has complained that PPI was mis-sold with both loans.Our adjudi... (3 pages)
View source decisionMr A says Yorkshire Building Society (“YBS”) mis-sold him a payment protection insurance (MPPI) on his mortgage.backgroundI issued my provisional decision in November 2016. I explained that I’d considered all of the available evidence and arguments from both parties to de... (1 page)
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