Insurance again - Bennetts declining to renew

[PyroUK]

Sure, just like there is no fight club.......

😉

[aesmith]

Well as suspected it turns out it was a Bennetts screw up. Again. According to the guy, when my policy was taken out they marked it as "do not renew" instead of "do not auto renew". It took quite a bit of pressure to get them to find out, the guy I spoke to just wanted me to take new cover and said he could see no reason why it wouldn't go through. I pressed the point because the last thing I wanted was to renew then have it knocked back as that would definitely count as "cover declined".

I must say renewing with them feels like a bit of a climb down, but it was the only way I felt I could really be sure that no black mark implying cover refused was left on my records.

[PyroUK]

Why does that option even exist.

What's the cooling off period and penalty?

[aesmith]

Ha ha, good point .. 14 days under consumer law, I think that has to be without penalty (Distance Selling regs?)

[PyroUK]

I'm sure they'll have their own BS one but 14 sounds fair. Renew, get COI, look elsewhere, cancel. Job done.

Lol

[Littlepeahead]

I've just had 3 companies including the one I'm already insured with come back to say they cannot give me a quote online. The one advisor I spoke to said it's a combination of wanting multi bike policy and my job being a sports ground. Anything that says sport flags up potential issues as even though I'm an admin manager on the drop down menu they have to be sure I'm not actually a professional sports person, and high risk. Anyone who has seen my attempts at any sport would vouch that 'professional' is about as far from a description as it gets.