Interesting to see today that Aviva (ex Norwich Union) has been named by Lovemoney as “Britain’s worst insurer”.
We’ve never used NU / Aviva for insurance – they’ve invariably been the highest quote around for any insurance I requested. The one that always sticks in my mind was their quote of some £1,000 a year for £25,000 of contents-only insurance when I lived in Manchester. I ended up using More>Than, paying £350 for £60,000 of cover. Go figure.
My personal experience of Norwich Union this year has been abysmal for a number of reasons which I’m not going to write about here. Well, not yet anyway – it’s still a rant waiting to happen. It’s just that it’s folded in to the general crapness of this year’s fun.
So it’s no surprise to me that regardless of name/brand, they’ve been named as ‘the worst’.
Even by my standards, this particular story of a driver in Switzerland who broke 15 laws in 11 minutes is pretty impressive.
The list included :
- overtaking an unmarked police car in heavy rain at 100mph
- speeding
- driving on the hard shoulder
- running a set of red lights
- failing to stop for police.
And after all that, he also (unsurprisingly, I suppose) also failed a drugs test.
I suppose if you’re going to do it, you might as well it properly.