Published decisions
3,174
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Year + product analysis
A curated public analysis of Insurance (excluding PPI) in 2020, combining annual and product-level signals from the published Financial Ombudsman decision corpus.
Page summary
3,174 published FOS decisions in Insurance (excluding PPI) during 2020, with upheld-rate context, firm concentration, complaint themes, and representative cases.
Published decisions
3,174
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
41.8%
1,326 upheld decisions
Latest published decision 24 Dec 2020
Published decisions
3,174
Decision volume in this year-product slice
Upheld rate
41.8%
1,326 upheld decisions
Leading firm
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc
248 decisions
Leading complaint theme
Delay In Claim Handling
776 tagged decisions
3,174 published decisions in the corpus sit in Insurance (excluding PPI) for 2020. 41.8% of those decisions were upheld, which makes this a strong public cross-section for understanding how one product behaved in one specific year.
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc is the most visible firm inside this year-product slice, with 248 published decisions.
Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Plc, UK Insurance Limited, Aviva Insurance Limited, and others are the firms most often associated with Insurance (excluding PPI) complaints in 2020. This gives a much tighter public view than the standalone year or product pages alone.
delay in claim handling, non-disclosure or misrepresentation, policy wording ambiguity, 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
Mrs B’s complaint is about the handling of a claim under her drainage and plumbing insurance policy with British Gas Insurance Limited. background In January 2019, Mrs B made a claim under her policy with British Gas as her bath waste was blocked and it was draining slowly. British Gas sen... (4 pages)
View source decisionComplaint Mr and Mrs M are unhappy AXA Insurance UK Plc (AXA) has declined to pay for some work carried out to their property following a flood. They feel this work should be covered under their home insurance policy. Background In December 2013 Mr and Mrs M’s property was flooded, followi... (13 pages)
View source decisionMr S has complained about CIP Insurance Brokers Ltd. He isn’t happy about the fact that it didn’t set up a commercial agricultural policy for him that covered his hired equipment. background Mr S had an agricultural commercial policy which he organised through CIP over a number of years. H... (3 pages)
View source decisionMr and Mrs S are unhappy with the way National House Building Council (NHBC) have handled a claim under their NHBC Buildmark policies. background Mr S tells us that he made a claim under his NHBC Buildmark policy as the roof to his house was defective. The claim was accepted, and works wer... (3 pages)
View source decisionComplaint Mr H has complained that Red Sands Insurance Company (Europe) Limited unfairly increased the cost of his pet insurance policy. He’s also unhappy with an exclusion that’s been placed on a new policy he purchased and the way a condition has been categorised. My findings I’ve consid... (3 pages)
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