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21st July 2006, 09:11
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willowb
Guest | Mis sold insurance on loans??? Hi there,
Does anyone know how to go about claiming insurance back. There is alot of fuss being made at the moment about these PPIs....see article.... 'Worthless' insurance costs £5bn | This is Money
And I've read a thread in MSE that someone has just claimed back £2,000 because he stated that he was mis sold the policy, the terms and conditions were not explained to him properly (needs to be by law??) and therefore they had to give it back to him......but I couldn't find a letter template etc.
Has anyone done it here or link a thread to me? Sorry if this has been brought up a million times, I really have looked and couldn't find anything.
If the forum members here don't know about this and it's possible to actually do this, then there'll be a lot of letters being sent out next week I'm sure!!!
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21st July 2006, 10:00
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willowb
Guest | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? Well, I've just read quite a few threads with people trying to get back the insurance paid on loans/ccs....
It's all very confusing......I think that there are alot of people on this site who could benefit from step by step instructions as to how to get this money back.
I've heard of one company (there may be more) who claim this money back for you but take a HUGE percentage when they do.
Can we not do this ourselves? But how?
I'm gonna write to Abbey, we've had a loan out with them for 6 years ish, which was defaulted about 4 years ago. We've still been paying them £90 a month as a payment plan was put in place. But I just can't help but wonder, how much of that loan is insurance, insurance that we obviously won't be using?
We need to get on this peeps, don't ya think???....sort out a proper structure for action and work out who can claim etc....If there are companies claiming that they can do it for a profit then surely we can do it for the money that's ours anyway???  | |
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26th July 2006, 22:05
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willowb
Guest | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? The thing is that they lump the insurance at the front of the loan, so you're essentially paying that off first. If, like ourselves, they defaulted us after a year or so then shouldn't we have only paid for a year's worth of insurance? and not the whole lot?
I'm still pondering writing to the Abbey but I need someone who knows about this stuff to tell us what we can and can't do. | |
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6th August 2006, 19:28
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| | Platinum Account Customer | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? I have just been enquiring about this with a BOS insurance as I heard from one of the threads that, and I'm not too sure of the legitimacy yet so don't get too excited, if the loan insurance came before the interest then the loan becomes unenforceable
Now someone here in BAG has suggested they had heard of a case going through the courts which was lost by the bank purely on this point. So get searching people because I am miffed about a £6k insurance on a 13k loan only to find out bos probably only paid a fifth of that to St Andrews for the policy BOS Loan insurance
I will be digging and posting back but keep an eye on my thread too and I'll watch this one! |
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8th August 2006, 15:55
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willowb
Guest | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? I got this template from Robert Harper 2000 ( a member of this site)...thank you!, the sample letter is as follows: Complaints department
Bank's name & address
Re: account 999999999999999999999
COMPLAINT
Dear Sir or Madam,
I took out the above loan for £x,000 on dd/mm/yy. When I took it out, I signed up for Payment Protection Insurance. I phoned up on dd/mm/yy to ask to cancel it and was told that this is impossible. I am writing to complain.
Put in any of the following which apply:
[When I took out the loan, I was told that I would not have been given the loan if I did not take PPI. I have since been told that this is not true, and that you are not allowed to make PPI a condition of taking out the loan unless you include the costs of PPI in your quoted loan interest rate, which you did not do. I therefore consider that I have been mis-sold this expensive insurance, which I do not need and which I said that I did not want.]
[I am self-employed/work as a contractor/unemployed and therefore will not be eligible for any payments from the PPI if I cannot get work or am sick. My situation was known to the person who sold me the loan, however he/she did not point out that the insurance was virtually useless to me so I think that I have been mis-sold the insurance.]
[When I took out the loan, I said I did not need the PPI as my employer provides generous illness and redundancy benefits, but I was told I should still take it out. As this is not correct, I consider that I have been mis-sold this expensive insurance, which I do not need and which I said that I did not want.]
[I wish to cancel the PPI because since taking out the loan, my employment situation has changed. I am now self-employed/work as a contractor/unemployed and therefore will not be eligible for any payments from the PPI if I cannot get work or am sick.]
[I wish to cancel the PPI because I now have sufficient alternative insurance cover from my employer and other sources.]
[I wish to cancel the PPI because I am in financial difficulties and cannot afford it. I enclose a Statement of Affairs which shows this.]
I have been advised that I should be able to cancel the PPI contract at any time and receive a partial refund of the premium that I have paid. I would like to do this. [And in view of the way I was mis-sold the insurance, I would like to ask for a full refund of the whole premium.]
I would appreciate a reply to this letter within fourteen days. If you reject this complaint, I would be grateful if you could explain whether you provide an internal appeals process. If you do not, please supply me with a final response letter, so that I can take up the matter with the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Yours faithfully,
nb There is no reason why you have to be able to prove that you cant afford the PPI before you cancel it, so in theory you should not need to send an SOA. However, I think it helps because it puts the bank morally in an even worse position if their PPI is causing you hardship.
How to compalin to the Financial Ombudsman Service is explained in detail here: http://www.financial-ombudsman.org.u...complai nts.htm.
so what do you think?
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24th August 2006, 09:42
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willowb
Guest | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? WOW.....gosh that's great! let us know how you get on....good luck!
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24th August 2006, 10:33
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| | Platinum Account Customer | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? Can a policy which cost a fortune which has had a claim against it paid out for a year still be classed as ' mis sold'? I'm running a thread BOS Loan insurance at present whilst investigating similar situation, but I feel a bit awkward stating the policy might have been mis sold when I actually had a claim paid out.
I still feel the original sale was mis sold. Be interested in anyones take on that point . |
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24th August 2006, 14:52
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| | Platinum Account Customer | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? It wouldn't be the premiums Jeep, I paid nearly £6000 insurance on a 13,000 + £6000 interest loan over 5 yrs and have been told by a helpful BOS ex worker that it would have cost them one fifth of that to buy from St Andrews Insurance. I am a businessman myself and understand the word profit, but I had this insurance foisted upon me at a time when common sense wasn't common and panic ruled the day when I needed a loan. In effect, if you forget the claim for one minute, the insurance was mis sold in that it was (almost) forced upon me - (yeah yeah I had a choice etc) but it has become apparent that there were ' guidlines' given to staff at that time regarding the divulgance of information/rights at the time the loan was taken out. That's the bit which has been misleading. I also trusted them as ' fiduceries' as they saying goes. They are the Bank of Scotland after all - not joe bloggs financial services ex con Ltd
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25th August 2006, 09:39
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| | Platinum Account Customer | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? Thanks for the good luck message cillitbanger..
But the pink sheep in wellies...you dont know what that does to an Ex Aberdonian..lol
I havnt had any reply yet from TSB regarding PPI letter..will keep you posted though.
I have another one with First Plus..Cost £3388 they said I could cancel it and they would give me refund of £97.41 ..Think he understood what go forth and multiply meant..
The first Plus one Im contacting the FSA for advice on this one as have found the policy and documents to be very misleading.
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25th August 2006, 09:59
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| | Platinum Account Customer | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? Just had reply from Lloyds re the PPI insurance..
" I was most concerned to read your letter, thank you for writing to us.. As your concerns relate to issues outside the control of this office, I have passed your letter onto Lloyds TSB General Insurance Department. It may take a while to gather all the facts together, but they will try to come back to you with a full response within the next few working days.
Copy of my letter below..meant to post earlier but forgot..lol Mr Ian Reid August 21, 2006 xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx Tel. Email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Complaints department Personal Loans Service Centre
Lloyds TSB PO Box 43 Peterlee County Durham SR8 2YQ Re: account xxxxxxxxxx
COMPLAINT & Request for return of PPI Insurance & Interest.
Dear Sir or Madam,
I took out the above loan for £1500 on 12/012005. When I took it out, I signed up for Payment Protection Insurance. I telephoned today to cancel the PPI insurance and was told that this was not possible. When I took out the loan, I was told that I would not have been given the loan if I did not take PPI. I have since been told that this is not true, and that you are not allowed to make PPI a condition of taking out the loan unless you include the costs of PPI in your quoted loan interest rate, which you did not do. I therefore consider that I have been mis-sold this expensive insurance, which I do not need and which I said that I did not really want. Since this loan was taken out to refinance a high TSB overdraft that had risen mainly due to unlawful penalty bank charges (a separate complaint currently ongoing) I feel that in a time of being financially vulnerable I was pressured into taking the loan protection. Having done some research I have found the same cover is available for £3.95 per £100 of cover compared to Lloyds Cover of over £22 per £100 of cover. The cost of the Policy was £415.42 plus £199.05 Interest making £614.47 The same cover from another insurer would cost a total of £118.50 thus saving £495.97 I request a refund of the policy fee plus any interest paid on the fee. I would appreciate a reply to this letter within fourteen days. If you reject this complaint, I would be grateful if you could explain whether you provide an internal appeals process. If you do not, please supply me with a final response letter, so that I can take up the matter with the Financial Ombudsman Service, and if need be make a claim via the small claims court to recover the PPI insurance fee + Interest + costs.
Yours faithfully, Ian Reid
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25th August 2006, 16:03
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| | Platinum Account Customer | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? Had a chat with the FSA this afternoon...
Might be a problem with claiming some of these policies, The FSA only started regulating this type of Insurance from 14th Jan 2005
Though the discussion I had with him regarding very Misleading terms in the policy etc, he was interested in and asked for the info to be sent to him to follow up..
Have to wait and see what they come back with. |
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25th August 2006, 19:24
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willowb
Guest | Re: Mis sold insurance on loans??? fantastic! keep us posted.....exciting stuff!
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