quinn direct home insurance

maj

quinn direct home insurance - are they any good??? they are comming up approx £50 cheaper then any others but only thing is they have a £250 standard xs.

Oscar_The_Grouch

Hi there

Quinn Insurance are an Irish firm that have started up in the UK. I know very little about them, but a search on the Irish Regulator's Website confirmed that they were fined 3.25m euros in October 2008 for irregularities with some loans and their chairman stepped down over the issue. Here's a link to the information on the Reglulator's website

http://www.financialregulator.ie/data/news_files/Settlement%20Agreement.pdf

Up to you if you trust them or not.

piglet74

i had my car insurance with them for years without any bother,

shaz77_2

Oscar_The_Grouch wrote: »

Hi there

Quinn Insurance are an Irish firm that have started up in the UK. I know very little about them, but a search on the Irish Regulator's Website confirmed that they were fined 3.25m euros in October 2008 for irregularities with some loans and their chairman stepped down over the issue. Here's a link to the information on the Reglulator's website

http://www.financialregulator.ie/data/news_files/Settlement%20Agreement.pdf

Up to you if you trust them or not.

Quinn's have been operating in the UK for many years now.

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piglet74 wrote: »

i had my car insurance with them for years without any bother,

How many claims did you have to make?

System

Another point is that if you access Quinn Direct for home insurance through a comparison website and put details such as lock-type etc. read the small print because a lot of their small print and terms and conditions will not consider the details you put into the comparison website.

For example, I entered that we have 'other locks' on our doors on a comparison website, and Quinn Direct was quoted the cheapest.

Upon entering their site to purchase the insurance I notice that their small print states they do not cover theft unless you have a 5-lever mortice deadlock on all doors and a multi-point locking systems at all windows. :rolleyes:

I don't know anyone who has such security in their home. Ridiculous.

dacouch

Insurance Times which is an Insurance Industry paper recently carried out a survey of brokers with relation to Insurance companies and Quinn were rated in the bottom third. They were actually second from bottom.

The survey was carried out in respect of Commercial Insurance but my experience with them on normal insurance would back up the surveys results.

I personally would recommend you chose a different insurer and pay the little extra and have piece of mind.