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Old 14-10-2009
Slimboyfat Slimboyfat is offline
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I worked in insurance for a couple of years and Flux like a lot of others are brokers, which basically mean they are the middle man for the actual insurers. Most brokers are ok but its NOT them that pays out.

Unless stated they probably put you directly in touch with the
insurers to make the claim as their main job is to take the order and deal with simple cust service jobs like changing stuff etc etc.

So the point of this is to say dont just say 'X insurers' are crap with a claim as it could have been one of tens of insurers they use like most brokers, find out who they used for you (you probably got a little booklet with your documents) i.e. Zurich, Norwich Union, Equity Red Star, Fortis etc and then post, as they are the real culprits for when you have issues making a claim and you know who to stay clear of. The other side to this is you go directly through the insurer and then thats pretty straight forward.

So back to finding someone for Jimmy to get a quote from....

I think 'Adrian Flux' are good 'priced' brokers (if they want to deal with you), also try 'Premium Choice' who i used for my Impreza Turbo 2000 - best service i've ever had and did everything to keep me the following year which is what you want aswell. They were by far the cheapest and obviously I knew where to look.

Also as has been said check out the aggregator sites like Confused, Money Supermarket and Compare The Market. It'll give you at least a base price to work from that you can go back to.

HTH....
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