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Family goes viral with travel insurance caution following nightmare vacation

January 11, 2023January 10, 2023 G. Turner

A motorcycle crash in Thailand left a family crowdfunding for medical costs despite their policy. The day after Christmas, a UK man named Adam Davies was in a motorcycle accident in Thailand and, despite his travel insurance, is now facing massive medical bills due to his serious injuries including a fractured skull. Though he had a policy, the massive medical costs he incurred were not included in his coverage. When Davies consulted with his travel insurance to help pay for the hospital bills that were accumulating for his care, he…

Lloyds Bank insurance news sees $180 million in fines

June 9, 2015June 6, 2015 H. Cutner

U.K. regulators have imposed the penalty on the massive banking group for mishandling of customer complaints. Lloyds Banking Group recently found itself on the losing end of some insurance news as regulators in the U.K. stated that they had imposed a fine against them, which will come to about $180 million. The fine is meant to be a penalty against the banking group for mishandling customer complaints. The insurance news was focused on the way that Lloyds Bank managed the customer complaints that were being filed about a type of…

Insurance news from Lloyds shows that mis-sold loan policies will cost $1.6 billion more

November 2, 2012 Julie Campbell

The scandal will now have cost the company approximately £5.3 billion. Lloyds Banking Group has just released their latest insurance news statement regarding the mis-sold loan policy compensation, which now involves an additional $1.6 billion (£1 billion), bringing the total amount of these payouts up to £5.3 billion, which has yanked its numbers downwards to result in a third quarter loss. However, the largest retail bank in the U.K. is still optimistic and is encouraging customers to remain that way. Lloyds has released a positive message regarding the decreasing losses…