Tag: insurance scandal

Wells Fargo pet insurance refunds on their way to many policyholders

Julie Campbell
Wells Fargo Pet Insurance - dog - Bulldog

A new report shows the scandal-plagued bank is reviewing a whole new batch of possible add-on problems. Wells Fargo pet insurance is among the latest add-ons linked with the bank’s rash of scandals. Thousands of the bank’s customers have been paying for insurance coverage they didn’t need or were overpaying for the coverage they did require. The bank is still coping with having mis-sold auto insurance to more than half a million drivers. More recently, the San Francisco-based lender has been looking at financial and insurance add-ons. What they have…

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Wells Fargo insurance customers seek credit repair for auto policy scandal

G. Turner
Frustrated Auto insurance product Wells Fargo

Borrowers forced to pay for unnecessary auto policies now want the damage to their credit scores fixed. New developments have arisen as a result of the Wells Fargo insurance scandal as customers seek to put right the damage done to their credit. Many of the customers have already filed a class action lawsuit to be compensated for the money they lost, but they are concerned about their credit histories. The bank’s own investigations found hundreds of thousands of customers were charged for unnecessary auto insurance. The added Wells Fargo insurance…

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Insurance news focus is back on Tom Hanks as his broker receives 27 months

Julie Campbell
Insurance news Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson

After having scammed the Oscar winning actor and others, Jerry Goldman has now been sentenced. The insurance news spotlight is on Southern California, at the moment, as a broker from that region who scammed Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, by hundreds of thousands of dollars is now facing a jail sentence of 27 months within a federal prison. This sentence was first issued to Goldman on Monday, when he found that he will be in jail for more than two years. Beyond the 27 month jail sentence making…

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Insurance news shows the mis-selling complaints in the U.K. continue

G. Turner
UK cyber Insurance industry News united kingdom

A recent report issued by the watchdog organization has revealed that banks will need to provide more in payouts. The Financial Ombudsman Service in the United Kingdom has now stated that the number of complaints that it has received with regards to the insurance news of the mis-selling scandal in the country have skyrocketed within the six months that ended in September. This has increased the odds that banks will be required to pay a higher amount for compensations. The Financial Ombudsman Service is the official watchdog that steps in…

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Insurance fraud scam in the UK to cost another £1 billion

H. Cutner
Insurance fraud decision

Banks are now facing a massive bill to pay for millions of customers back for mis-sold products. Millions of customers throughout the United Kingdom who were mis-sold credit card theft policies will be receiving a portion of an insurance fraud compensation fund payout that currently totals £1 billion. The compensations will be issued to the qualifying customers over the next few months. Eligible customers for the insurance fraud compensation payout are from Barclays, HSBC, Nationwide, Santander, and NatWest. They will be receiving the payment that is due to them at…

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