LV Home Insurance
I have a claim with LV for an escape of water going on from December 2022 and it has been delay after delay with Sedgwicks department in Belfast.
I self-reported the claim and then decided to employ a Loss assessor to work on my behalf. I am 58 and my husband is 59. Our Bungalow was affected with a water leak, and it started off normal I suppose with my employed loss assessor meeting a Sedgwicks representative at my house on 15th March 2023 and showing him the damage and what was required to be done.
My loss Assessor explained that we were in the vulnerable category and would require Alternative Accommodation cover which was agreed on 12th April that I should get 6 months Alternative Accommodation, and we received these funds via BACS transfer.
From then it has just been constant delays, they take forever to reply to emails with the first offer not coming until 1st June 2023 of with numerous items not allowed for. Second offer came on 1st August 2023 for and was refused again and then Sedgwicks employed an independent company to come and have a look at property and a new lower offer on 4th October 2023 was proposed and rejected due to sufficient items again not allowed for.
When I thought it looked like it was getting some attention the Sedgwicks department manager asked to visit the property with my employed loss Assessor on 27th October 2023, on that visit she promised me and my husband that she will make it a priority and it would be sorted shortly.
As all this was happening, I was paying the rent of the alternative Accommodation from my own money, I had paid a substantial amount of money to mitigate my property and had hired a container to store some of my contents. My loss assessor had chased for further AA funds to be released and we kept getting same response that it was with insurers.
I then involved my solicitor to help in the matter and next correspondence we received was from an investigator from Sedgwicks to discuss why I require AA and that the claim will not be dealt with until after interview on16th January 2024 as there was observations made by their loss adjusters.
We had to produce all paperwork from March 2023, tenancy agreements, receipts, container hire receipts, along with all corresponding Bank statements to match payments. All of the above were passed on through my employed loss assessor and the investigator advised on 16th February that this was now being past back to original Adjuster
After further delays and passing claim over and back a new improved offer of was proposed but again rejected due to no detail on specific items and also items again missing from their scope.
Again, payment was chased for my outstanding money which I had paid from my own money for rent and other bills in regard to the claim. I received a payment of on 25th April 2024, at this stage I had paid further bills and was still due a further I then received a on 14th June 2024 which cleared all my bills and is including rent until September 2024.
Amidst of all this Ashley McMinn emailed me on 25th April to say
It took until 21st May for them to attend and onsite he agreed with my employed loss assessor that a further 2 rooms were now affected.
After more delays it took until the 1st July 2024 to receive the independent building surveyors report with no costs. We then received a new offer on 8th July 2024 of. Which has been questioned due to its vagueness and again not fully detailed. It is just a round number with no detail as to what has been allowed towards certain items or even what has been allowed per room.
All the while I am still no further on paying rent, container hire, electric in 2 houses and topping up central heating oil in 2 houses. I am at my lowest point, mine and my husband’s heath have severely deteriorated during this period, and we have both been hospitalised and all during this Sedgwicks don’t seem to care one bit, so much for their logo Caring Counts.
It is now18 months and all we want is for us and our home property to be treated with the respect and paid to put it back to the way it was.
As far as I can see Sedgwicks employ someone to look at it, the job becomes too big for them, and they stop replying to emails hoping it goes away and then someone higher up does the same and so on. I don’t understand how the first offer is nearly half of the 5th offer someone clearly doesn’t know how to do their job. Then on the money I was out of pocket again they didn’t care what financial position they were putting me in.
Also, I don’t understand why they are knit picking at how much it costs to pay for repairs to my property when they have paid me £12,600 for 18 months’ rent and works are still yet to commence my property.
I don’t know how insurers can justify their rates when all this money has been wasted on dead rent and could have been put to good use but for Sedgwicks in competence.
26. heinäkuuta 2024
Oma-aloitteinen arvostelu