Year + product analysis

Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2018

A curated public analysis of Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2018, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.

Page summary

15,511 published FOS decisions in Payment protection insurance (PPI) during 2018, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.

Published decisions

15,511

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

44.2%

6,856 upheld decisions

Latest published decision 31 Dec 2018

Published decisions

15,511

Decision volume in this year-product slice

Upheld rate

44.2%

6,856 upheld decisions

Leading firm

Bank of Scotland Plc

2,902 decisions

Leading complaint theme

Affordability Assessment Failure

1,268 tagged decisions

Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2018

15,511 published decisions in the corpus sit in Payment protection insurance (PPI) for 2018. 44.2% 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 2,902 published decisions.

  • 2018: 15,511 decisions, 44.2% upheld
  • Leading complaint theme: Affordability Assessment Failure
  • Leading precedent signal: Disp

Firm concentration and issue profile

Bank of Scotland Plc, Lloyds Bank PLC, Financial Insurance Company Limited, and others are the firms most often associated with Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2018. 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.

  • Bank of Scotland Plc: 2,902 decisions, 26.0% upheld
  • Lloyds Bank PLC: 2,824 decisions, 43.3% upheld
  • Financial Insurance Company Limited: 1,800 decisions, 23.7% upheld
  • Barclays Bank Plc: 1,521 decisions, 72.3% upheld
  • Capital One (Europe) plc: 880 decisions, 73.5% upheld

Handling implications and precedent context

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.

  • Leading complaint theme: Affordability Assessment Failure

Representative cases

Recent published decisions in this slice

5 examples shown

DRN009786431 Dec 2018Not upheld

Bank of Scotland Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Miss R says Bank of Scotland Plc, trading as Halifax, mis-sold her a payment protection insurance (PPI) policy.backgroundMiss R applied for a credit card in a branch meeting in 2001. The PPI was added to the credit card at the same time and covered her repayments if s... (2 pages)

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DRN020557131 Dec 2018Not upheld

Barclays Bank UK PLC · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mrs S complained that Barclays Bank UK PLC mis-sold her payment protection insurance (PPI) when she took out a personal loan. I’m aware Mrs S applied for a number of loans so to be clear, this decision is about her loan ending in 5899, taken out in 2009, over the ph... (2 pages)

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DRN058531831 Dec 2018Not upheld

Bank of Scotland Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

This complaint is about a monthly premium payment protection insurance (PPI) policy taken out in 2002 alongside a credit card. Miss O says Bank of Scotland plc (BoS) mis-sold her the PPI. my findingsI’ve considered all the available evidence and arguments to decid... (2 pages)

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DRN086840131 Dec 2018Not upheld

Financial Insurance Company Limited · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mrs R says she was mis-sold a payment protection insurance (PPI) policy. Financial Insurance Company Limited (FICL), as the insurer, have taken responsibility for the sale. To keep things simple, I’ll only refer to FICL in this decision, rather than any other busines... (2 pages)

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DRN116249731 Dec 2018Upheld

Bank of Scotland Plc · Payment protection insurance (PPI)

Mr C has complained that Bank of Scotland plc (BoS) mis-sold him a credit card payment protection insurance (PPI) policy.backgroundMr C took out the PPI in November 2001 at the same time as he arranged the credit card in branch.Our adjudicator didn’t uphold the compla... (2 pages)

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