DAS Legal Expenses

jmpv · 11th July 2007, 10:10

If you have had a claim declined by DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company Ltd you may be interested to know that until recently the policy of this company, following the appointment of a new manager with no legal experience, was to decline all calims whenever possible. This included claims sent to solicitors to deal with. The company has been forced to re-think this policy recently following advices of the household insurance companies whose policies are sold with the legal expenses insurance as an add on and who are not satisfied with the service provided to their policy holders. If you have had a claim declined during the last six years you should contact your household insurer (Saga, Nationwide, NFU Mutual, Lloyds TSB, Halifax or whoever) and advise that you are unsatisfied with the service provided by DAS Legal Expenses and you want your claim reviewed or you will move your household policy elsewhere. Do not waste time on the FOS, many of the employees were formerly employed by insurance companies. You never know you may be surprised and you have nothing to lose.

jjrj · 11th July 2007, 11:42

I had a claim declined by Lyons Davidson Solicitors acting on behalf of DAS. They said that the costs of running the claim would be more that I would win. I will certainly be getting onto my household insurers requesting that the claim be reviewed.

andyford2000 · 22nd July 2007, 20:14

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jjrj · 22nd July 2007, 21:50

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what is the message?

andyford2000 · 22nd July 2007, 22:26

Amicus Legal Ltd

was going to post it on here, but started a new thread instead

tandom · 23rd July 2007, 10:37

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Originally Posted by jmpv

If you have had a claim declined by DAS Legal Expenses Insurance Company Ltd you may be interested to know that until recently the policy of this company, following the appointment of a new manager with no legal experience, was to decline all calims whenever possible. This included claims sent to solicitors to deal with. The company has been forced to re-think this policy recently following advices of the household insurance companies whose policies are sold with the legal expenses insurance as an add on and who are not satisfied with the service provided to their policy holders. If you have had a claim declined during the last six years you should contact your household insurer (Saga, Nationwide, NFU Mutual, Lloyds TSB, Halifax or whoever) and advise that you are unsatisfied with the service provided by DAS Legal Expenses and you want your claim reviewed or you will move your household policy elsewhere. Do not waste time on the FOS, many of the employees were formerly employed by insurance companies. You never know you may be surprised and you have nothing to lose.

I recall an article about DAS Legal Expenses in the national press last year which implied that the company was investigated following a whistleblowing complaint to the parent company.It stated that the Chief Executive has on more than one occasion had affairs with employees causing conflict of interest resulting in the employees resigning and being provided with a large payout which they used to start companies with much of the business being supplied by DAS.Apparently he then marries the former employee and his latest wife is his fifth.It is surprising that other insurance companies are still prepared to provide business for this company.

jjrj · 24th July 2007, 08:37

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Originally Posted by tandom

I recall an article about DAS Legal Expenses in the national press last year which implied that the company was investigated following a whistleblowing complaint to the parent company.It stated that the Chief Executive has on more than one occasion had affairs with employees causing conflict of interest resulting in the employees resigning and being provided with a large payout which they used to start companies with much of the business being supplied by DAS.Apparently he then marries the former employee and his latest wife is his fifth.It is surprising that other insurance companies are still prepared to provide business for this company.

Do you know what newspaper it was and the date?

sincerity · 24th July 2007, 09:13

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Originally Posted by tandom

I recall an article about DAS Legal Expenses in the national press last year which implied that the company was investigated following a whistleblowing complaint to the parent company.It stated that the Chief Executive has on more than one occasion had affairs with employees causing conflict of interest resulting in the employees resigning and being provided with a large payout which they used to start companies with much of the business being supplied by DAS.Apparently he then marries the former employee and his latest wife is his fifth.It is surprising that other insurance companies are still prepared to provide business for this company.

Was DAS Legal Expenses the same company where nearly all the senior managers resigned en masse a couple of years ago to start their own legal expenses insurance company? Was this anything to do with the complaint about the Chief Executive?

tandom · 7th August 2007, 10:08

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Do you know what newspaper it was and the date?

It was the Financial Mail in the Mail on Sunday on 17 December 2006.

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