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Home Insurance Question

  • 14-12-2020 8:03pm
    #1
    RunnerDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I am trying to get a quote for my home insurance, I have filled in 4 online quote forms with different companies, but they all declined to insure me. reason flood risk.

    I live fairly close to the River Liffey and 20 years paying insurance without any claims.

    Has anybody else had any similar problems? This was never an issue before they introduced eircode.

    Joe


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  • #2
    Cape Clear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭Cape Clear


    RunnerDub wrote: »
    Hi,

    I am trying to get a quote for my home insurance, I have filled in 4 online quote forms with different companies, but they all declined to insure me. reason flood risk.

    I live fairly close to the River Liffey and 20 years paying insurance without any claims.

    Has anybody else had any similar problems? This was never an issue before they introduced eircode.

    Joe

    Can you leave the eircode blank on the online forms? A few years back My wife gave 123.ie out eir code when following up on an online quote it increased the quote by €200. I believe Axa are quite good for home insurance quotes at the moment but you are better ringing them than going online. You current insurer is also obliged to give you a renewal quote.


  • #3
    Eggs For Dinner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,998 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    Cape Clear wrote: »
    Can you leave the eircode blank on the online forms? A few years back My wife gave 123.ie out eir code when following up on an online quote it increased the quote by €200. I believe Axa are quite good for home insurance quotes at the moment but you are better ringing them than going online. You current insurer is also obliged to give you a renewal quote.

    Insurers are not obliged to give you a household quotation, whether you are with them or not. The requirement for an insurer to offer cover to existing clients only applies to compulsory classes of insurance and motor is the only such one in Ireland


  • #4
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,362 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    Cape Clear wrote: »
    Can you leave the eircode blank on the online forms? A few years back My wife gave 123.ie out eir code when following up on an online quote it increased the quote by €200. I believe Axa are quite good for home insurance quotes at the moment but you are better ringing them than going online. You current insurer is also obliged to give you a renewal quote.




    You might as well have no insurance then, because it would be invalid.


  • #5
    Cape Clear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,666 ✭✭✭Cape Clear


    Jim2007 wrote: »
    You might as well have no insurance then, because it would be invalid.

    No reason why it would be invalid if the full address is given. An Post isn't using Eircodes as it stands.


  • #6
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,479 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Jim2007 wrote: »
    You might as well have no insurance then, because it would be invalid.

    Why? If they don't insist on you filling in your Eircode on the proposal form then there is no false declaration.

    Every house in the country has an Eircode so if they're prepared to quote you without an Eircode, that's their decision.


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