Manchester Underwriting Management Ltd Complaints Handling Procedure


We make every effort to deliver a high-quality service to our customers. If you have a complaint about our service or about a claim, we operate a swift and effective complaints handling procedure, as follows:

  1. Your complaint can be made orally or in writing, and on your behalf by a third party.
  2. If you wish to make a complaint you should contact Richard Webb at Manchester Underwriting Management Limited, Link House, St Mary’s Way, Chesham, Buckinghamshire, HP5 1HR. Tel.: 01494 770700. Email: complaints@manchesterunderwriting.com.
  3. We will acknowledge your complaint within three business days and advise you of the person who will be dealing with the complaint and when you can expect to receive a detailed response. The person dealing with the complaint will be a senior member of staff who was not directly
    involved in the matter which is the subject of the complaint. They will have the authority and experience to address the complaint and explain the results of the investigation.
  4. If your complaint should be more appropriately dealt with by another firm, we will ensure that it is referred to them as soon as practicable and certainly no later than three business days after our becoming satisfied that the other firm is or may be responsible for the substance of the
    complaint. We will make this referral to the other firm in writing and advise you by way of a final response that the referral has been made and include the other firm’s contact details.
  5. Your complaint will be thoroughly investigated and we will respond to it as soon as possible. We will provide a detailed response to your complaint in writing within twenty business days or if it
    is not possible to respond within that time, we will inform you in writing within twenty business days why we have been unable to resolve the complaint within that time, why we need more time to do so and when you can expect to receive our final response.
  6. We will write to you and explain why there is a further delay if we have not completed our investigation within eight weeks of the complaint being made. We will also confirm when we expect to issue our final response and advise you that you may be eligible to refer the complaint
    to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), if you are dissatisfied with the delay. FOS contact details are:-
    Financial Ombudsman Service
    Exchange Tower
    Harbour Exchange Square
    London
    E14 9SR
    Tel: 020 7964 1000
    Fax: 020 7964 1001
    E-mail: complaint.info@financial-ombudsman.org.uk
  7. If your policy is insured wholely or partly by underwriters at Lloyd’s and your complaint cannot be resolved within two weeks, or if you have not received a response within two weeks, you are entitled to refer the matter to Lloyd’s. Lloyd’s will then conduct a full investigation of your complaint and provide you with a written final response. Lloyd’s contact details are:
    Complaints, Lloyd’s Fidentia House
    Walter Burke Way
    Chatham
    Maritime Chatham
    Kent
    ME4 4RN
    Email: complaints@lloyds.com
    Telephone +44 (0) 20 7327 5693
    Fax +44 (0) 20 7327 5225
    www.lloyds.com/complaints
  8. Details of Lloyd’s complaints procedures are set out in a leaflet “Your Complaint – How We Can Help” available at www.lloyds.com/complaints and are also available from the above address.
  9. If you remain dissatisfied after Lloyd’s has considered your complaint, you may be entitled to refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service who will consider your complaint independently and free of charge.
  10. Where you are eligible to refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service, you have the right to do so free of charge but you must do so within six months of the date of our final response. If you do not refer your complaint in time, the Ombudsman will not have
    our permission to consider your complaint and so will only be able to do so in very limited circumstances, for example, if it believes that the delay was as a result of exceptional circumstances.