Published decisions
7,786
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Year + product analysis
A curated public analysis of Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2017, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.
Page summary
7,786 published FOS decisions in Payment protection insurance (PPI) during 2017, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.
Published decisions
7,786
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
21.2%
1,652 upheld decisions
Latest published decision 28 Dec 2017
Published decisions
7,786
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
21.2%
1,652 upheld decisions
Leading firm
Bank of Scotland Plc
1,824 decisions
Leading complaint theme
Affordability Assessment Failure
1,226 tagged decisions
7,786 published decisions in the corpus sit in Payment protection insurance (PPI) for 2017. 21.2% 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 1,824 published decisions.
Bank of Scotland Plc, Lloyds Bank PLC, HSBC Bank plc, and others are the firms most often associated with Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2017. 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 S complains that HSBC Bank plc (“HSBC”) mis-sold him a mortgage payment protection insurance (“PPI”) policy.backgroundMr S told us that he was very unhappy that PPI was added to his mortgage without his knowledge or consent. He said, if he’d known the policy was offe... (2 pages)
View source decisionThis complaint is about a credit card payment protection insurance (PPI) policy taken out in 2008. Mr W says National Westminster Bank Plc mis-sold him the PPI.my findingsI’ve considered all the available evidence and arguments to decide what is fair and reasonable ... (2 pages)
View source decisionThis complaint is about a credit card payment protection insurance (PPI) policy taken out in October 2000. Mr L says Bank of Scotland Plc (trading as Halifax) mis-sold him the PPI. my findingsI’ve considered all the available evidence and arguments to decide what is... (2 pages)
View source decisionThis complaint is about a monthly premium payment protection insurance (‘PPI’) policy taken out with a mortgage in 1988. Mr and Mrs R say Bank of Scotland Plc (‘BoS’), trading as Halifax, mis-sold them the PPI. my findingsI’ve considered all the available evidence ... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr B complains that Lloyds Bank PLC mis-sold him a payment protection insurance (“PPI”) policy. backgroundIn 1996 Mr B took out a loan in one of the bank’s branches along with a PPI policy to protect the loan monthly repayments. He borrowed extra and paid upfront for t... (2 pages)
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