Published decisions
5,549
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Year + product analysis
A curated public analysis of Insurance (excluding PPI) in 2018, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.
Page summary
5,549 published FOS decisions in Insurance (excluding PPI) during 2018, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.
Published decisions
5,549
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
33.2%
1,841 upheld decisions
Latest published decision 31 Dec 2018
Published decisions
5,549
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
33.2%
1,841 upheld decisions
Leading firm
UK Insurance Limited
562 decisions
Leading complaint theme
Delay In Claim Handling
1,139 tagged decisions
5,549 published decisions in the corpus sit in Insurance (excluding PPI) for 2018. 33.2% 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 562 published decisions.
UK Insurance Limited, Aviva Insurance Limited, Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc, and others are the firms most often associated with Insurance (excluding PPI) complaints in 2018. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.
delay in claim handling, policy wording ambiguity, non-disclosure or misrepresentation, and others are the strongest complaint-theme signals in this year-product combination.
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.
Representative cases
5 examples shown
Mr H and Miss H complain that Allianz Insurance Plc (Allianz) settled a claim, against their policy, as a fault one when they believe it should have been defended and the third party held at fault.backgroundMr H was involved in an accident on 3 September 2017. He was ... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr M is unhappy that British Gas Insurance Limited (“British Gas”) is applying a cap on whatit will pay out under his home emergency policy.background Mr M has a HomeCare policy with British Gas which includes cover for the boiler and centralheating at his tenante... (4 pages)
View source decisionMr M is unhappy with the settlement offered by Society of Lloyd’s for his claim for accidental damage to a television under his home insurance.backgroundIn December 2017 Mr M accidentally damaged his television set. He made a claim to Lloyd’s who arranged for an engineer ... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr D complained about Admiral Insurance Company Limited’s handling of a claim on his motor insurance policy for a replacement windscreen.Reference to Admiral includes their agents.backgroundMr D’s windscreen was cracked in November 2017. He claimed under his policy and wa... (3 pages)
View source decisionMr M complained because MCE Insurance Company Limited voided (cancelled from the start) his motorcycle insurance policy.backgroundWhen Mr M applied for his policy he was asked a number of questions. Of relevance to this complaint, he was asked where the motorcycle was k... (2 pages)
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