Aviva Reviews

Name: Aviva
Rating: 2.04

2.0 Rating 603 Reviews

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"Please read and analyze with your heart and realize what posture and misery I am in because of these miserable AVIVA company.\r\nAll I recommend to all people to avoid this company AVIVA for insurance Pensions and many other aberrations! \r\nThat's what AVIVA insurance said, AVOID AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE because they are not serious. \r\nI was injured, hit by an insured from this AVIVA company who destroyed my \u00a33,854.6 scooter, and that two-penny engineer who represents this company offered me a miserable claim and more humiliation than me by offering me the amount of \u00a32,470, of which \r\nI lose \u00a31,384.6, especially as the scooter was bought new 3 months ago from Yamaha. \r\nI waited two hours for someone from the Aviva claim department to answer and they didn't even bother to answer. \r\nAs long as people are stupid and contribute to their salaries, they are making fun of your money!!! \r\nYou have a worthy image to represent you!!! \r\nThe lack of seriousness really represents you!!!!!! \r\nAbout Aviva insurance for two bucks and the quality is zero. \r\nUnfortunately, being a stingy company and refusing to pay the fair price to the people who were victimized by the incompetence you represent. \r\nIf someone, regardless of insurance, is killed in traffic, the insurance must bear all the consequences regarding the recovery of the damage. \r\nIn reality you are stingy and vehemently refusing to pay the right price, Aviva and that wretched rotting engineer you have, I mean that idiot who valued my scooter at \u00a32,470. \r\nProvided that the total amount I paid was \u00a33,854.6 at this price the difference of money for that engineer to buy incense and candles for his children I wish with all my heart! \r\nI am neither the first nor the last you mock and humiliate. \r\nYou destroy both your image and your reputation, as long as the people who were victims! \r\nI am curious to see how this miserable and humiliating treatment Aviva is giving me develops. \r\nI did not become your beggar on my money. \r\nThe Aviva department in reality I have never been humiliated. \r\nIf you think you picked me up off the street or out of the trash, you're wrong. \r\nI have the dignity to walk with my chest in front, I won't let you step on my feet! \r\nSTINGY!!!"

FARAMITA GHEORGHE

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Attempted to make a claim on my policy for bike theft, to be told that cause I live in a flat and use a secure communal bike store they cannot accept my claim. To add insult to injury I was told that adding additional cover would have protected my bike. Nowhere on their website was it clearly stated that bikes are excluded in communal bike stores. Avoid Aviva insurance at all costs!”

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Posted 5 years ago

“very expensive !!!!”

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Posted 5 years ago

“increased price by 40 pounds to a loyal customer, not a good way to maintain retention.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Brilliant”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Have used them for a long time. Never had any problems.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Incredible Not good at all its not worth your time guy”

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Posted 5 years ago

“On 11th December my windscreen was cracked by a stone flung up by a passing car, a pretty serious crack that just missed intruding upon the driver's field of view. When I got home I went through the Aviva website, paid the excess via debit card, and was then surprised to discover that the screen couldn't be fixed until 9th January. When I phoned Autoglass (Aviva's agent for windscreen repairs) I found that this was due to their agent not being in our area until that time. To add insult to injury, their agent wouldn't be able to collect my car from my workplace; no, I would have to take two or three hours off work and take it to their repair shop miles from my workplace myself, and wait while the windscreen was replaced. Now, I live in a UK offshore location, granted, but there are three local windscreen repair places nearby, one of which said that they could have sourced a new windscreen and installed it within a week. Unfortunately, Aviva insist that their customers must use Autoglass so I have no choice but no wait. Meanwhile I have no option but to carry on using the car, with the crack steadily growing in size day after day; it is now well into the driver's field of view and has attracted some comment from my work colleagues to the effect that it is clearly unsafe and that I am taking a risk, etc. etc. Despite Aviva being made aware of this I have not been offered a courtesy car nor the option of having the windscreen replaced at a local outlet. In fact, they haven't got back to me at all. I have been with Aviva for years for both vehicle and home insurance but I simply won't be renewing with them again after being let down like this.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“YOU ARE COVERED FOR NOTHING. THEY WOULD FIND ALL POSSIBLE EXCUSES.. DO YOURSELF A FAVOUR... RECORD ALL YOUR CALLS. ASK ALL POSSIBLE QUESTIONS TO ENSURE THAT THEY FULLY DISCLOSE WHAT YOU ARE COVERED FOR GO AND VIEW ALL THE REAL REVIEWS ON TRUSTPILOT.... THOUSAND OF UNHAPPY CLIENTS... THEY CONTACTED TRUSTPILOT TO REMOVE MY COMMENTS... MY COMMENTS ARE BASED ON FACTS AND NO LIES.... ISN'T IT TIME TO GIVE THE TASTE OF THEIR OWN POISON? UNLESS YOU HAVE RECORDED CALLS... THEY WILL NEVER COVER YOU FOR ANYTHING.. YOU CAN BUY RECORDING FACILITIES ON "APP" AS LITTLE AS 5 £ ALL THE BEST”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Hello, on the other hand you do not have any document signed by me or my authorization, you do not have my address where I pay all the cancellation invoices and it is unlawful. If the money is not returned, I will claim the months, damages and losses created by my loss of time, plus the scam of being a foreigner and not having knowledge of the language.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Fast and quality service.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“My daughters car window was smashed by a chap who was strimming grass outside her home, she witnessed it, but by the time she’d got dressed and gone out to speak to him, he had gone, she spoke to the company who admitted ovet the phone that it happens all the time, but had to then pass it to their insurers Aviva, who took 2 months to now state that they have looked into it and are not going to pay out!! This is nothing less than criminal damage, and Aviva are useless. Now we have to take it to the small claims court, thankfully we have evidence”

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Posted 6 years ago

“i claimed my pension and from start to finish it was I mess, I am left so stress I would not advice any body to go with you , I have tried to claim the over paid tax on this to now be told you have done that wrong as well, your figures do not mine I have sent in!! which I got form you. They say the figures you have sent do not match tried speaking to you to get this sort to be told different things every time I phone I claim this pension in sept it will now be January before this is sorted I have been told . and I am still waiting for this to be sorted !!!!!!!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“they offer multiple car discounts”

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Posted 6 years ago

“So simple to get a quote. Nothing is hidden you know exactly what you are getting for your money.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Worst company , had to request a refund from my pension scheme , one advisor told me they will get back to me within 3 working days. 5 days later spoke to them again and the advisor says “oh we had a system issue”. 8 days later I’m still chasing my money. So it’s been 2 weeks now. No outcome , No Refund.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Total time wasters .. through misleading information they sell and never follow up anything.BUILDING INSURANCE COVERS YOU FOR NOTHING Aviva is shockingly dishonest company I agree with all is written Down here Hundreds of complaints And now a pathetic dedicated team to respond to these real reviews giving the impression that they care All that is facade , fake and misleading WHAT I KNOW IS THAT - following my review I shall receive a response from AVIVA HETR in how sorry they are about my reviews and views « offering me to contact them for resolution and yes BLA-BLA-BLA All that is just to give the right impression, nothing more nothing less ; to those reading all these AWFUL REVIEWS ABOUT A DISHONEST INSURANCE CO DONT BUY ANY INSURANCES WITH AVIVA IF YOU BUY A BUILDING INSURANCE BE WARNED ..... YOU ARE COVERED FOR NOTHING . I have had my building insurance with them for over 5 years When you get a leak from your roof ; the first thing comes to your mind is to contact your insurance My hell started from the day almost 6 month ago when I decided to call them for help First _ the explanations are that they only cover your roof based on the wind measurement published god know where.’.. so the immediate Reaction is that unless a kind of horricain type Katrina is registered in the. UK you won’t be covered .’’ How clever Aviva is . Yet when you buy the insurance non of those are reported and explained . Yet before talking to any advisor they oblige you to listen to nearly 10 minutes of intimidation with loads of “if” If you don’t tell the truth If you try to mislead If you don’t clarify everything That they have contacts around the world that they are using various tools to ensure no one would mess around with them and It goes on and on and on Then when it comes to themselves of being truthful , according to their own say ; they don’t have to clarify anything . How could a damage to a roof of several years be assessed in such weird way ? Even a brand new roof with a single nail badly placed ; could end up with a fatal of losing a roof tile and we all know how a water leak could be leathal and devastating . One doesn’t have to lose half tge roof following a strong wind sometimes the very slight movement with a roof tile can cause enormous amount of damage Bizarrely ; when they sell their insurance they don’t say that you are not covered for the roof but you are clearly covered for the damages that are caused unless it is evident that the roof damage has been following a strong wind ... unless it make sens to whoever reads this but what would it be the meaning of accidental damage then ??? When all that had been brought up they accepted to send over a loss adjuster Aviva they do all they can to cause problems The very young Cost Effective Staff all being called « Customer Care Managers’ are not trained with no management experience. They come up with anything that suite them with beautiful signatures ; mouthful job titles and meaningless messages and advice For the 1sr scheduled time and date for a Loss Adjuster to visit the Property .. I was advised that no one needed to be present at the property as they are super héros .. remember the recorded messages about how easily they catch the liars and losers not telling the truth prior of buying the insurance ... the same scenario ... that the loss adjusters are equipped with tools enabling them to view even the roof of major buildings of dozens of floors ... it turned out not to be the case and that I needed to be present to allow access ; common sense ; a 15 year old would have figured this out ...unless you work for Aviva the 2nd inspection - I waited all day for a Fantôme Loss Adjuster who never turned up And since childish neurotic emails are being bounced back and forth . And I’m still waiting for a loss adjuster and my solicitor fees that are mounting up Now so called Custmer Care Manager In question instead of responding to my solicitor when this super hero loss adjuster will show up; all they do is just bounce back meaningless messages... totally childish and meaningless responses TO AVIVAS QUICK RESPONSE HERE Social at aviva dot co dot uk Please spare me with further lies here just for the sake of giving the right impression Go down the page and read 100+ of other reviews that are being inserted daily Instead of wasting your time here take the real action on being honest with insurances that you sell and incompetent teenagers who are clearly compensating their frustration of being badly paid or trained by treating lawful customers like me so unlawfully You tried to get remove my review from Trustpilot.. I shall carry on voicing my opinion since your Customer Complaint Manager or department doesn’t even exist . I’m being bounced back to the same teenagers who have been messing me around for nearly 6 months now I have cancelled my car insurance And you know by fact that I won’t renew my building insurance due to your unlawful and dishonest insurance policies I have been with aviva for more than 5 years I have been truthful WHEN YOU TURNED OUT TO BE UNTRUTHFUL I have all of my recorded calls of your wrong doing and unlawful lies that you inject to sell insurance IMPORTANT From the moment you want to make a claim Yet another 10 minutes of shocking and pathetic information that one has to endure As soon as you open a claim even if turned down the Claim will be registered against your name - ( how luducrious is this ?? Basically a) to prevent you to make a claim and b) they warn you that no matter what your premium will go up for the following year ..even if the claim is not eligible ... how could that be ??? If you go to court and you are innocent you don’t have to disclose that you have been in court for whatever the reason .. but of course with AVIVA they came up with the great idea to make you responsible EVEN WHEN YOUR CLAIM IS TURNED DOWN FOR LUDUCRIOUS REASONS .”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I’ve read a lot of the comments here and everyone uses this to vent when they have something that went against them. We have house insurance and had a burst pipe in our attic bedroom, this caused flooding on all three floors and extensive damage. I called Ava Iva at 8.00 AM , they took details and assured me we were covered. They asked if I wanted to use their contractor or obtain quotes from the various trades and manage 5he repairs myself. We chose to use theirs and they were exceptional. High quality workman and trades, project managed with timely information and updates. Really helpful at a difficult time, my first home insurance claim in 25 years thankfully but skilfully dealt with and no quibble or fuss.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I have fully comp van insurance and had my van stolen but aviva will not pay out or replace tools, they said it is in there policy they will not pay out if your keys are stolen and vehicle stolen. Total con”

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Posted 6 years ago

“QUELLE HORREUR! Horrendous experience over years, which is ongoing, and was reconfirmed when I telephoned them again yesterday to get some information. Despite having European breakdown cover, AVIVA left my neighbour and me stranded in Belgium for three days in 2014 after the clutch on the insured vehicle failed. After they arranged to collect the vehicle and taken to a repairer, they then refused to repatriate the vehicle or us. Rather than remain holed up in a pokey hotel for the rest of our lives, I ended up forking out cost of train fares and taxis to get us home, which was over £400. When AVIVA finally decided to repatriate the vehicle, it was delivered in a filthy mess and in pieces, with further damage to the panels where their lifting or securing equipment must have been applied prior to or during transportation. After about four days on the telephone, I finally got through to a decent gentleman, a Mr M in the CEO’s office, who accepted responsibility and sought to resolve matters. I recall Mr M mentioning that AVIVA had been experiencing many problems with their agents, RAC in Europe. Mr M said, “In terms of making you feel this is okay, let's imagine a situation where I was to sort out a garage (for the repairs). I am going to take a bit of leave and will try to get this car sorted. Mr K who manages the complaint team ... I am not going to ask him to manage (this) as a complaint. ... Write a summary email which details the expenses which you think you have incurred. ... The Motor claims team will call you to find local garage approved by them. … Send me an email with your expenses.” He also arranged a hire vehicle. The poor car then spent months at repairers only to be returned with yet more problems, e.g. air noise coming through rear door/window, air con problems (e.g. blowing hot where cold should be), missing cap, etc, all of which had been in good condition before the clutch failed and AVIVA arranged for it to be collected from the autobahn. All this while, costs increased, what with phone calls and the numerous times I had to go to and from the repairers, which was a 15 to 20 mile round trip. In the meanwhile, my mother died unexpectedly in 2015, and priorities shifted out of necessity. In May 2016, on the very morning it was to be collected by AVIVA's panel repairers to put right what they had done wrong (wind noise etc), the vehicle was hit whilst parked, by joy-riders who were having an early morning fling hitting as many parked cars as they could up and down the suburban streets. Within hours, and without even sending out an engineer to assess the damage, AVIVA wrote the vehicle off, branded it Cat. D, and so proceeded to undervalue the vehicle for settlement purposes, and ongoing insurance purposes. That is to say, rather than (a) repair the vehicle, or (b) replace the vehicle with something equivalent, or (c) reimburse us for the replacement value so that we could replace the vehicle ourselves with something equivalent, as AVIVA had contracted with us to do, they proceeded to de-value the vehicle permanently, so that if a claim was ever made in the future, they would pay only a fraction of what it would normally be worth without the Cat. D. AVIVA undervalued the replacement value of the vehicle at a rate that was approximately 25% less than its true value. (The make and model of this particular vehicle holds its value very well, particularly with such low miles as this one.) They put many hoops in front of me which I had to jump through, in terms of providing evidence and so forth and, without producing any evidence of their decisions, continued misguided, in a state of total denial, rejecting all the facts that were presented to them, in favour of their own pre-determined outcome conducive only to them. What is more, as part of their “offer” if we were to keep the vehicle, AVIVA sought to deduct £1,120 allegedly for salvage etc. which figure, upon enquiry with the salvage company, turned out to be about £960 more than what they confirmed they would have paid. That is to say, while the salvage company said they would have paid £160 for the vehicle, AVIVA sought to deprive us of another £960 on top of that, that is £1,120 in total. Nothing made common sense or rang true and it quickly became obvious that whichever path, there was a formula which AVIVA were adhering to, and that honesty, fairness and that the insurance ‘contract of utmost good faith’ which we had with them did not come into the equation. What was certain was that we would lose out while AVIVA would make £100,000,000s in profit. So, this is how AVIVA treated its customers who had never been in an accident. With no resolution in sight, I attempted to escalate the matter to Mr M in the CEO’s office. But, Mr M, I then learned, had moved on to a bigger and better position within the company. Instead, a Mr S took over, and proceeded in the same vein as his colleagues/subordinates to kill off any chance of settlement. To add further insult to injury and old wounds, Mr S proceeded to undermine and renege on every honourable thing that Mr M had done previously in 2014 and, in addition to his and his colleagues’ various attempts to rip us off (in 2016), he also refused to reimburse me for any of my losses relating to the 2014 episode alleging, quite incorrectly, that our contract had been with RAC and not AVIVA, and that RAC had already rejected the claim in 2014! All of this was untrue since Mr M had already been dealing with the matter and, having taken responsibility for the matter, asked me to send through receipts (which were ongoing), and was already authorising payment of other invoices provided by third parties. As for no claims bonus and the drivers' insurance record/history generally, AVIVA advised in 2016 that so long as they were able to successfully claim from third party’s insurers, none of that would be affected by the 2016 incident. So surely all losses would be recovered from the third party insurers, right? So then, what was the problem? Part of the answer to that was unravelled yesterday. Well, unbeknownst to us, despite AVIVA having all the third party details, the new guy in the CEO’s office, Mr S, reluctantly confirmed only yesterday (6 September 2018) that, in truth, AVIVA had made no claim at all against the third party insurers - a crucial fact which he chose to withhold in 2016. In the meanwhile, AVIVA has proceeded in the interim to make misleading statements on insurance documents that I had been in an accident in 2016, thereby creating a manifestly incorrect and libelous record about me which, as readers will no doubt appreciate, negatively impacts upon me personally and financially. Since then, and with matters unresolved, AVIVA have proceeded to increase the cost of insuring the vehicle by £100s, and we are £1,000s out of pocket. For AVIVA to deny any responsibility for all the distress and loss that they and their agents have created, using such underhand tactics in the process, is thoroughly dishonest and unethical. According to the legal doctrine of 'estoppel' (based on both common law and equity), AVIVA were estopped from refusing to pay out in 2016, after having finally and quite sensibly elected to resolve matters in 2014. Yet, they proceeded once more in 2016 to breach their agreement and that doctrine, and compound it with a further breach of the insurance contract of ‘utmost good faith’, only to leave us “stranded” for a second time. They have learned nothing, and it is “Quelle horreur” all over again. Certainly the Financial Ombudsman, which AVIVA love to direct customers to, is no reliable avenue to achieve a just and equitable outcome, since they themselves are grappling with reports about their own inexplicable and apparently unethical conduct, evidence of which was uncovered in a Dispatches investigation earlier this year. Who pays the Piper …”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Guys, Aviva is cheap for quotes but beware of this company. They claim to pay out 95-98 with no independent verification. These and most companies invest more in claim prevention ( In name of Fraud prevention) rather than in their customers. You may find you policies cancelled by Aviva at the slightest hint you may file a claim. Beware!!!”

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Posted 6 years ago

Aviva is rated 2.0 based on 603 reviews