Monday, July 31, 2006

Endowment Claims Double

Endowment Claims Double

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has doubled its estimate of how much firms have paid out in compensation for mis-selling endowment mortgages in the past, up to £2.2BN.

The FSA said the estimate is up to April 1, 2006.

The previous estimate of £1.1BN was up to the end of 2004.

Compensation payments have jumped sharply, £945M was paid in the year to April 1 with the number of complaints rising to 767,152.

In the year to April 1, 2005, compensation was £601M for 324,935 complaints. In 2003/04 compensation was £424M for 202,200 complaints, and before April 2003 compensation totalled £225M for 250,000 complaints.

Bradford & Bingley on Thursday announced its compensation provision would rise to £165M.

All of this pain could be avoided if the life assurance companies bit the bullet between their teeth, and agreed to underwrite these useless policies.

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