Published decisions
8,099
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Year + product analysis
A curated public analysis of Payment protection insurance (PPI) in 2019, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.
Page summary
8,099 published FOS decisions in Payment protection insurance (PPI) during 2019, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.
Published decisions
8,099
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
20.7%
1,675 upheld decisions
Latest published decision 31 Dec 2019
Published decisions
8,099
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
20.7%
1,675 upheld decisions
Leading firm
Bank of Scotland Plc
1,764 decisions
Leading complaint theme
Affordability Assessment Failure
838 tagged decisions
8,099 published decisions in the corpus sit in Payment protection insurance (PPI) for 2019. 20.7% 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 1,764 published decisions.
Bank of Scotland Plc, Financial Insurance Company Limited, Lloyds Bank PLC, and others are the firms most often associated with Payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints in 2019. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.
affordability assessment failure, non-disclosure or misrepresentation, delay in claim handling, 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
This complaint is about a store card payment protection insurance (PPI) policy taken out in2004. Mrs L says AXA France mis-sold her the PPI.backgroundIn my provisional decision sent in November 2019 I explained why I didn’t think this complaint should be upheld. I said:‘I’m currently inten... (2 pages)
View source decisionThis is a complaint that Santander UK Plc mis-sold Mr C payment protection insurance (PPI).backgroundThis complaint is about a monthly premium PPI policy taken out with a mortgage in 2001. Our adjudicator said the complaint shouldn’t be upheld. Mr C disagreed with the adjudicator’s opinion... (2 pages)
View source decisionThis complaint is about a store card payment protection insurance (PPI) policy taken out in2003. Mrs M says AXA France mis-sold her the PPI.backgroundIn my provisional decision sent in November 2019 I explained why I didn’t think this complaint should be upheld. I said:‘AXA France had to m... (2 pages)
View source decisionMr and Mrs B have complained that Bradford & Bingley Plc mis-sold them a mortgage payment protection insurance (MPPI) policy.backgroundMr and Mrs B took out the policy at the same time as arranging their mortgage in 1995. Although it was a joint mortgage the PPI was set up just to cove... (2 pages)
View source decisionThis is a complaint that Nationwide Building Society mis-sold Mr F payment protection insurance (PPI).backgroundThis complaint is about a monthly premium PPI policy taken out with a mortgage in 1991.Our adjudicator said the complaint shouldn’t be upheld. Mr F disagreed with the adjudicator... (2 pages)
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