Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 31 March 2016

So it’s not just Aviva who have it in for me - all the insurance companies are at it

issue 02 April 2016

After a year of affordable car insurance, I knew I had to be in for it when my premium came up for renewal. Nothing prepared me, however, for the quote that came through from Aviva, who I am thinking of re-naming Amorta, or Adversa, which just sounds more appropriate.

You may recall that after I won my personal injury dispute with no liability or fault on my record after three years of fighting, I was refunded thousands of the sky-high premiums Aviva had been charging me while the case was going on — because, naturally, they had to assume I was guilty of causing spinal injuries to two members of the non-working classes by bumping into the back of their people-carrier at 5 mph in a traffic queue on Streatham High Road until I could prove I had done no such thing.

Once that little legal nightmare was settled, my premium plummeted from four figures to £25 a month, although I knew that couldn’t last.

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