So have beaten renewal price from existing insurer by £480. Included in that saving is a policy to take my excess down to zero. What a shitshow.
Is there any financial services organisation not experiencing extremely high call volumes currently?
Well there’s a surprise, a sinkhole on the way into Bromley just where the water main has been leaking for months but you know have done fuck all about it.
So Axa have increased our motor premium by 100% despite the claim we had being fully recovered from the other side. Well they won’t be getting a renewal from us.
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I understand why some people get frustrated with insurers. Had the renewal notice in for my car insurance. Had to call them as Mrs G had a claim in August on the other car’s insurance. The incident was a no blame on her part - she was in inside lane on motorway and car in the .
outside lane turned into her. £6.5k of damage. Within 24 hours other side accepted liability and within a day of repairs being completed our insurer confirmed they had recovered all outlays from other side. NCD unaffected and no excess to pay. So anyway tell the insurers the full
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We have a number of families with young kids round here so have said please feel free to trick or treat us. The main question is will I have to rebut the sweets by next Saturday.
Have changed all the spotlights in the bathroom as they were reaching the flickering stage and bugging me. Much better when the damn things just went out. I remarkably still have a full set of fingers.
Alexa, show me someone who doesn’t realise that the local authorities pension scheme is fully funded (unlike virtually every other public sector pension) & therefore the employer would not be saving any future expense other than their future contributions by making him redundant
Council worker sues for discrimination after he was made redundant three days before his 55th birthday - costing him his £350k pension
Lee Henley, 57, worked for Thurrock Council for 35 years and was made redundant on 22 July 2024, three days before his 55th birthday.
That timing meant he missed out on an immediate full pension worth around £350,000.
The council was effectively bankrupt with £1.5 billion in debt and shortened the consultation period while he was on holiday.
An employment tribunal dismissed his age discrimination claim, finding the shorter process applied to everyone and granting the pension would have cost frontline services more than £350,000.
So this is what loyal service gets you!
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