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Insurance Cancelled
ola2hip356
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Hi everyone,
A family member has a black box in their car, and as they had been driving erratically this month, the insurance company have gone to take £45 out of the registered card as a sort of penalty. The problem has come where the card that is registered had expired, so the insurance company emailed them to inform them of this, but they had the incorrect email so no email was received. Therefore a letter was sent out saying they had cancelled the insurance. When speaking to the insurance company, they said it isn’t their fault the email address was incorrect and so they have just refunded the rest of the years insurance back and “washed their hands of it” so to speak. Question; is this legal? If not is there a body you could go to to complain? As you can appreciate, a young person with a cancelled policy, it going to be very pricy!
Thanks in advance!
A family member has a black box in their car, and as they had been driving erratically this month, the insurance company have gone to take £45 out of the registered card as a sort of penalty. The problem has come where the card that is registered had expired, so the insurance company emailed them to inform them of this, but they had the incorrect email so no email was received. Therefore a letter was sent out saying they had cancelled the insurance. When speaking to the insurance company, they said it isn’t their fault the email address was incorrect and so they have just refunded the rest of the years insurance back and “washed their hands of it” so to speak. Question; is this legal? If not is there a body you could go to to complain? As you can appreciate, a young person with a cancelled policy, it going to be very pricy!
Thanks in advance!
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Yes it's legal, but you might want to appeal it with them.0
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Did the family member check the email before agreeing to the policy? Family member also needs to take some responsibility
As above you can try a complaint, but seem the insurer tried to contact"It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"
G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP0
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