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14 Day Cancelation fee
#440722
22/09/2007 15:40
22/09/2007 15:40
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Raulus
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Raulus
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Does anyone know with insurance companies if they charge you for canceling within the "14 day cooling period"? And also if you wanted to re-insure with them, is there a time limit before you can? Paul
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#440761
22/09/2007 17:23
22/09/2007 17:23
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Solstar
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Solstar
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Hi,
This depends from insurer to insurer, most will charge you for the time you have been on coveron a pro rata basis, eg premium = £365 and you cancel the policy after 6 days you will pay £6 and get any over payment refunded back. However some companies like Elephant.co.uk will charge a £15 admin fee to cancel for the cost of issuing the docs. Also if you have any ancillaries such as Leagl Protection which is an add on to your actual policy you may not get any money back for that.
Hope this helps.
Last edited by Solstar; 22/09/2007 17:24.
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Re: 14 Day Cancelation fee
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#441882
24/09/2007 19:26
24/09/2007 19:26
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AndrewR
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Does anyone know with insurance companies if they charge you for canceling within the "14 day cooling period"? There isn't a 14-day cooling off period for insurance sales as insurance services aren't covered by the distance selling regulations. Most companies will charge you *at least* pro rata for the time you have been covered, but it is common charge above pro rata rates as well.
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Re: 14 Day Cancelation fee
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#441985
24/09/2007 21:43
24/09/2007 21:43
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Solstar
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Solstar
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Hi, Most insurers will usually just charge the pro rata figure as an FSA guide, and an admin fee is purely the insurers discretion. Also some Insurers will allow a pro rata refund on the basis that you have returned the Certificate of Insurance and they have received it within the 14-day period (Might be worth sending it recorded del'  So in other words you may call them to cancel the policy after 2 days, but if the Cert isn't returned until lets say day 15 then a TOR (Time ON Risk) charge will apply and is usually a % of the annual premium and always more then the pro rata figure 
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Re: 14 Day Cancelation fee
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#442120
25/09/2007 00:47
25/09/2007 00:47
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Raulus
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Raulus
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Checked with the Insurance company and its Pro-rata + 19 pound admin fee. Wanted to know as Insurance whilst I'm 20 is 2350, but I turn 21 ina few weeks, couldn't stand leaving the coupe on the drive for the time without driving it so insuring at crazy price then canceling and re-insuring when i'm 21 for 960 pounds. Such a big difference in prices!
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#442162
25/09/2007 01:45
25/09/2007 01:45
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Add your mum if she has a good driving history - will bring the price down for sure 
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#442164
25/09/2007 01:46
25/09/2007 01:46
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Solstar
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Solstar
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Yeah most insurers use quote systems that are not future specific... a bit shite really cause £1390 for a matter of a few weeks, now that's 
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#442432
25/09/2007 14:44
25/09/2007 14:44
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Raulus
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Add your mum if she has a good driving history - will bring the price down for sure  yeah my mum is on both those quotes, but she has an accident, (drove into the back of a banged up escort in her 230 slk at like 5mph lol ¬_¬)and still brings all the quotes down by about a grand, my dad with no accidents adds like 500 quid lol.
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#442663
25/09/2007 19:14
25/09/2007 19:14
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Solstar
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Solstar
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You need to be carefull about adding parents on, not so bad if they are a named driver but when some people put the mum/ dad down as the policyholder and thus the main user when in reality they're not it's classed as "Fronting".
Which is insurance jargon for miss representation of Risk, or in other words fraud. Your insurer can kick out a claim if this came to light so just be carefull!
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#442678
25/09/2007 19:30
25/09/2007 19:30
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Raulus
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Raulus
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My mum is named driver I am main driver 
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#442706
25/09/2007 19:52
25/09/2007 19:52
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Solstar
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Solstar
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sorted should be ok, its just some people will put their parent down as the main driver in order to get a better price.
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Re: 14 Day Cancelation fee
[Re: stan]
#443268
26/09/2007 14:38
26/09/2007 14:38
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Raulus
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Raulus
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Direct Line give a 14 day cooling off period and a full refund if the policy is cancelled.
Yeah but they wont even give me a quote lol. Say I need to be 25 to drive a Coupe, same as my current scooby insurance with Barcleys insurance, they wouldn't transfer my current to the coupe 
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#443287
26/09/2007 15:18
26/09/2007 15:18
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Solstar
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Solstar
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Direct Line are pretty cool like that, just double check that there is no admin fee. Some insurers will give you a full refund on the premium but then charge an admin which in reality means your not getting all your spon back!
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Re: 14 Day Cancelation fee
[Re: stan]
#445559
29/09/2007 01:45
29/09/2007 01:45
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Solstar
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Intelligent insurers like Direct Line will sooner waive a £15 charge then risk bad publicity... Word of mouth is still the best form of advertising 
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