‘Ghost brokers’ haunting the insurance market
29 October 2024
This Halloween beware of ‘ghost broker’ deals that are too good to be true or risk being scammed by fraudsters.
Welcome to the latest edition of Ombudsman News. In this edition we highlight our latest data, covering complaints about financial products and services between April and June 2023. We also share the progress of our extended trial to proactively settle complaints and tell you about the roles we’re currently recruiting for.
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Our latest quarterly complaints data on financial products and services is now available. It shows that between April and June this financial year, complaints about motor and buildings insurance have reached their highest level in five years.
You can find the full data, including the number of enquiries and new complaints we’ve received, and the proportion of complaints we resolved in favour of consumers, on our website.
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Since we announced we’re extending the trial of our ‘proactively settled’ complaints category, we’ve helped resolve over 900 complaints. This helped consumers get fair and quicker resolutions.
We’ve worked closely with stakeholders and businesses to gather feedback and identify complaints that have the potential to be resolved early.
You can find information about how to proactively settle complaints and examples of case studies on our website.
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Welcome to the latest edition of Ombudsman News. In this edition, we look at our latest data, which covers the complaints we received about financial products and services between April and June 2024.