Insurance companies
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Topic: Insurance companies
Posted By: Kels
Subject: Insurance companies
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 8:58pm
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What IC are you with for house, contents or car insurance. Im currently with AA but am wanting to change. Any suggestions on good reliable companies please ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
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Posted By: Leish
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 9:07pm
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We're with State for everything and they have been GREAT!! Never had any issues with them and they have always been quick and good customer service and pay our claims without any issues LOL. We have contents and car with them. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 9:22pm
| contents and car with AMI - no claims yet. |
Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 9:53pm
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We are with Vero. They are not the cheapest on the market, but have the best cover IMO and are definitley the best for claims service. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Bayley
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 9:56pm
You're not biased at all though Sterryn are you?!! 
We are with AMI, very happy with them although we haven't had any claims yet... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Bobbie
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 10:13pm
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We're with AMI for Car and Contents. No contents claims yet but they've always been amazing with our Car insurance (last 2 cars we had seemed to be magnets for bad drivers lol!) -------------  
 
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Posted By: Mama2two
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 10:17pm
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LOL Tash. Me??? Never ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 11:33pm
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We are with State and they are great. Nigel had an accident (he was not at fault) and the guy who caused the accident had no insurance and tried to claim that DH was at fault even thou the police had been at the scene and knew that the other guy was at fault. State handled everything for us at no charge or excess to us. We have house, contents and fullcar and 3rd party car on the other one. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: AnnC
Date Posted: 27 March 2008 at 11:49pm
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Don't forget Banks also offer Insurances ------------- Ann 
Also Mum to Josh (15) and Brooke (10) |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 12:03am
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Thanks for all the replies. My task for next week is to change IC. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Sarah Beth
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 6:33am
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AA is actually very competitive. If I weren't with Vero I would most likely be with AMI as I believe their cover isone of the better on the market, but you need to take out the extensions (away from home cover, carpet matching, no excess for glass claims etc), which makes it more expensive.
Love Vero though, cars are with Lumley as have insured for business use at present and they are much, much cheaper there ------------- "> 
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 7:04am
| Vero here too for house, contents and car (DP's car is with another company though as he went through a broker and doesn't want to change, even though I'm trying to get him to agree). If I wasn't with Vero I would probably still be with Tower, or AMI because of what they offer. |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 7:32am
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We are with AMI for car, house and contents.
I had a spate of prangs a few years back, and their claims process was great. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 7:38am
| We use our bank (BNZ) and they were absolutely amazing when we had a fire in our house. I've never experienced such awesome service. It was a weekend and they answered their phones promptly. The assessor dude was here the following day (on a sunday) and when we had questions they answered them all very fast. |
Posted By: hooper
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 7:57am
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hey we are with AMI, i was with AA but AMI offered the better deal and DF has been with them for years.
We have had no probs with them. ------------- Desiree 
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Posted By: Redbedrock
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 8:01am
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State for car and contents. Only one experience of clasims and they were great, paid out in full even tho the guy who hit us had no insurance, licence or even owned the car he was driving, they paid out the claim the excess and it didn't affect our no claims either ------------- http://www.babysfirstsite.com"> 
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 9:59am
we are with AMI and have been for years. i don't think i'll ever leave them we've got all our insurance with them and over the last 6 mths we've had my glasses, DH's cellphone and 2 windows in the car replaced without any probs and really quickly
we also had the carpet in the house replaced just before we bought it through my parents AMI insurance ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: cuppatea
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 10:28am
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We were with state but changed to AMI last year as they are cheaper, we have home, contents, landlords and two cars insured. Only thing claimed so far is a windscreen repair. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 11:09am
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we are AMI too - we had a diff ins company rng the other day to give us a quote and it was for more...and they dont have the glass replacement thing that AMI do. for cars or houses... so we will be sticking with them... ------------- http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker"> 
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 2:25pm
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State here, no complaints except my premiums went up heaps this year coz I had content/car claims from when my car got stolen, even tho it wasn't my fault and the police arrested and charged someone, and I filled in all the paperwork to allow the insurance company to seek compensation from her as part of the court proceedings. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 8:42pm
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AMI are great and we once saw an insurance broker and once he heard we were with AMI he just said, that's probably the best you'll get, don't need to look at alternatives. ------------- |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 10:54pm
| We are with state, but will be changing. They were Ok when I got hit and finally got round to paying for my car to be fixed (after 3 weeks of sorting out details) and since we were robbed (about 7-8 weeks ago now) its been nothing but stuff up after stuff up. Took us six weeks of me ringing every 2nd day (and being on hold for 1/2 hour each time) to get everything sorted. The only reason it got sorted so *quickly* was because I rang, they never rang me to tell me that we were getting paid out, and the form had been sitting there for nearly a week ready to go through! Grr! We'll be swapping to AMI soon. |
Posted By: Bubbaloo
Date Posted: 28 March 2008 at 11:08pm
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Car is through AA contents is though ASB and about to have Health Insurance through Southern Cross as we get good deals through work with them but am also thinking of changing car and contents to the same people. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">  Was danni-chick Mum to James My Angel 28/07/08 |
Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 6:28am
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We are with AMI for everything - Ive claimed loads! (My cellphone has a habit of having water spilt on it!) ... and have never had a problem ... and the claims have always been settled really quickly. ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 8:20am
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am in love with ami. i hit a guy on the weekend - in the car belonging to my PIL that we are buying - who forgot to tell us that the insurance has lapsed - grrr. anyway, Shane from AMI rang up and once he heard the insurance was lapsed he was super understanding, said that of course AMI didn't want to send us bankrupt - as he said - "we'll never get the money that way", and just said they would make arrangements so we are all happy. I was really impressed and hung up feeling really good (well as good as you can)
OT but the guy i hit was only minor damage so under $1000 |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 11:44am
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WOw thanks for awesome feedback. I am going to set my new insurance up on Monday ------------- http://lilypie.com">
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: kasbee
Date Posted: 29 March 2008 at 8:04pm
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And me, we are with state for car and contents, they have been great.
When i had my car crash (my fault) they payed out really quickly, it was excellent cause got sick of having to borrow my mum and dads cars  ------------- Kelly, mother to 4 wonderful children. http://lilypie.com"> 
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