Aviva Auto Insurance Reviews

We have a $13000 claim for windstorm damage, and have been dealing with claims and ombudsman office at Aviva Elite for 10 months. Every expert who has inspected the RV - except Aviva's appraiser - agrees the damage is from outside impact and should be a covered claim. Aviva's appraiser blames the manufacturer for a defect of some kind!
Finally 2 months ago they agreed to partial coverage. We will need to go to mediation on the balance.

So, we got 2 estimates for repairing the partial coverage they agreed too - guess what, here we are 2 months later pushing for approval on the estimates so we can get the work done.

Terrible customer service! They have tried everything imaginable to delay and deny the claim.

We would rate them less than 1 star if we could.

Stay away from Aviva coverage on your RV's

Some idiot put earthquake and sewer back up riders on my travel trailer policy. I caught it and my agent took the riders off. Pretty unethical to me.

Horrendous insurance company. The customer support spoke nothing but incomprehensible, nonsensical gibberish which, roughly translated, consisted of excuses for their terrible and illogical behaviour. They also bill me without warning and long before they're supposed to, and on top of that, they constantly find new ways to, again, rip me off. My rate spiked for no reason at all, for starters. Do yourself a favour and avoid Aviva at all costs.

I had a guy run a red light and hit my truck. He admitted in his police report that he ran the light and hit me. I even had a witness to the accident and gave all her information to the claims representative at Aviva. It has been six months since this accident and my claims adjuster is still trying to figure out who was liable. They never bothered to contact the witness, and never return any of my emails or calls. I'm at a total loss as to what actions I need to take next to see that this gets taken care of. I'm considering seeking legal advice and I'm going to report my situation to consumer reports. If your insured with this company I would change to some one else as soon as possible.

I contacted Aviva for auto insurance in the summer for my little convertible sports car, I was quoted and paid $254/month which I agreed to. The following month after wards I wanted to know how much it would be to change to a different vehicle, 2007 Lexus. I was quoted $460/month, I have emails proving all of this. The next following two months payments were still $254/month which I found odd. The month after in Oct. I was charged $949.44 which was absurd it was more than double what I had been paying! I immediately cancelled the policy and now am being charged again $949.44 in Nov. And now they also tell me $582.72 will be taken out Nov.26.
Watch out for Aviva they will quote you for one price and totally screwed you over without any warning charge you another amount, be warned!

I had a claim in July 2014 in which I had to incur expenses beyond the deductible. First of all, the company only has a select few places that you can take your car. It took me 3 weeks to get my car in for an assessment at which time they told me they were booking into the following month. When I finally did get my repairs done, I had to pay the deductible. I called my Aviva broker multiple times, sent emails to both the broker and two other agents at Aviva and never received a reply. I then followed up again with multiple phone calls and emails. I then received a brief, non apologetic email from my broker saying she was reimbursing me for my expenses and that it would be sent to my home address. This was 30 days ago and I have not received anything. Once (if) I ever receive my money, I will be switching auto insurance companies.

On another note, I changed my address a few months prior to this through my broker. I followed up about a month later as I hadn't received my updated insurance cards that I needed to change my registration. The broker said they were behind in their paperwork. It took nearly two months from submitting the address change to receive anything in the mail. I would not recommend this company to anyone.

Made a stolen vehicle claim. The vehicle was recovered in damaged condition. Was told the vehicle would be written off and I could expect the final paperwork to complete before the cheque would be issued. Received a call back two months later indicating that I actually did not have theft coverage on my policy even though this should have been the first thing Aviva looked into when I made the claim. Have had very little communications with them as they are unnaivailable. My claims representative has not been responsive to countless calls where I attempted to move the process along. Am still struggling with the company and their ombudsman won't even respond to emails. Meanwhile my car is still sitting at their auto mechanic shop...

Due to a family emergency we missed a couple of payments. When we called to discuss a payment plan, they agreed to take out double payments two months in a row. When the time came for the money to come out, nothing was taken. We waited thinking perhaps they were back logged and didn't get to it. A couple of weeks later, still the money was not removed. When we called Aviva Insurance to ask them why they did not take out the money, we were told that our insurance was cancelled. Meaning, they agreed to a payment plan only to remove our insurance. They gave us no reason why. Now that we are trying to get insurance back onto our vehicle, we are having a difficult time due to all this. I wish they had at least given us a reason, instead of agreeing to a payment plan and then going ahead and removing our insurance without letting us know.

5 moths after accident and still not resolved. Can't reach him at all. Agent was saying I'm not in the system. Don't use this insurance!

my truck was stolen while I was travelling i had reported a claim to aviva , in this case i knew the individual who had taken and crashed my truck, my truck was written off. after battling for a month with aviva over trying to settle this claim, they stated that i had to press charges against this person in order to settle the claim (last i checked its the RCMP's job to lay charges towards anyone not mine, i can only give a statement) i argued this point to the insurance for a long time, further more although offered at first they stated i was not entitled to a rental car although i had been told in the past i had 900 dollars credit towards a rental "the case is under investigation without prejudice and im not entitled to one i can get one and ask for reimbursement later" i was told, finally the Sargent of the police station had to phone the agent to tell him that a warrant had been issued and they are searching for the individual involved so the agent authorized a rental for a week and offered me a claim now starts the low balling they offered me 2000 less then what i had found the fair market value to be on my truck i told them this they asked me to submitt 3 similiar trucks kms make model year so i found two that are similar other then that it is hard to find a truck of this calibre ( it was well maintained with low kms for its year) i found two they were not from alberta so she dismissed them i also showed her the appraised value on kelly blue book they couldnt open the link. i am still battling over this its month two.

this story it stands to show that as a customer with aviva your words carry no weight and they drag on this process to try and make you except there low offer i have had 3 different agents they all have taken leaves of absence and have literally only received one email a day from 2 of the agents although i have sent several different emails and questions regarding the proccess that they have said i have to follow and they do not answer there phone so dont bother calling you can only request that they call you back via email which will take a day to reply and set up a call time, as well they have made me jump threw many hoops with the RCMP who has also told me its to seperate things your truck being stolen and someone being charged with theift.

they do not have your best interest in mind and they are trying to save money they are not on your side.