RBC Insurance Auto Insurance Reviews

Once RBC crawled into bed with Aviva, the service became poor. During a postal strike, they wanted me to submit all my vehicle information to them, which they already had on file. If it wasn't in by a certain date, they would cancel my policy. That is exactly what happened. No consideration for the postal strike. We had no claims. If this is how they treat good customers, I shudder to think how they treat someone with a claim. Stay away!!

I was 7 years with RBC insurance, now RBC Aviva insurance, for both my home (paid policy in full upfront) every year, Auto Insurance & life. My expiration date had ended on my credit card used to make installment payments on auto policy only. So the payment went NSF. My yearly policy for auto had just renewed. Not knowing I was sent a letter stating your policy was cancelled in 15 days. Hoping to not have any interruption in service I offered to pay the policy premium in full (1 pay) as I do my house insurance & they still were unwilling to continue coverage. I have a clean driving record with zero claims ever. I was told by RBC that I would have to reapply and the only acceptable form is a written application, not over the phone, & it would take 3 to 4 weeks to reissue a policy. You see this was done by RBC Aviva so they can raise premiums. What a joke. Shame on Royal Bank of Canada for putting their name on this garbage business practice!!

They want everyone on higher upfront premiums and will lie and cheat to get you there. I had RBC Auto Insurance for five years. This year they sent me a letter requesting updated information. I phoned them and went through every section of the paperwork with one of their representatives to make sure it was completed to their satisfaction, then scanned and emailed it to them. They cancelled my auto insurance without notifying me, so when I found out, I phoned them and they claimed the paperwork had been incomplete. They never bothered to notify me of this despite having email, phone, and home addresses for me. I tried to renew with them, whereupon their operator informed me that they would no longer be accepting monthly payments on new applications. They refused to make any sort of accommodation for me despite their blatant mishandling of my information.

Been with RBC insurance since 2009, my family and I had no complaints during the time before they were sold to Aviva. They cancelled my father's insurance saying that the car was out of date, they weren't able to insurance the car. For my own claim happened 2018, I got hit by a cube-van and took me a while for them to process my claim, I ended up forcing myself to go back to work before I fully recover from the injury. Finally, I just called in for cancelling my auto policy because I sold my car and going on vacation, the person who answered my call had no idea what he's talking about. I knew I have to pay a cancellation fee on that but I asked him how to calculate the fees, and he got out of words by telling me there was no way he can tell me, it generates on the computer. That's totally non-sense human program the damn software to allow the computer to calculate the math. The last thing the guy on the phone with was totally unprofessional, he confuses himself when I asked him if I need my policy cancel on the specific date. From this point, I will not come back with the insurance company.

I have never experienced ANYTHING like this. In the 20 years I have been driving, I have always had a good record and one accident where I was rear-ended by a kid. I was with AMA Insurance but the rates kept doubling and when I got a cancellation notice that my home was too old to insure, I moved to RBC. HUGE mistake. My insurance payments come out on the first, on a travel Visa I have. I transferred the payment and it was applied as funds available but the bank didn’t post the payment until the next banking day so the payment didn't go through. Since it’s a credit card, I assumed it would go through in a day or two. It didn’t. So after a few days I noticed the payment still hadn’t gone through so I called RBC and I was on hold, and on hold, and on hold. I tried for a few days to get through, and it was the 5th of December, when the payment should have gone through on Dec. 1st. The day after, registered letter, my insurance had been cancelled for non-payment. I don’t know what kind of outfit Aviva insurance is, but this is going to have a serious impact on my record for years. The policy is just cancelled. I can pay the policy for the year outright, but nope. Just cancelled for non-payment. I am beyond disgusted. If they are this with payments, I need to see what they are like if you actually had a claim. I’ll be filing a BBB report against them and leaving a review to warn others wherever I can.

Was on the road. Didn't know there was an issue with my bank and payments not going through. Instead of phoning like everyone else to tell me there is an issue, they cancel my policy and don't want me as a customer. Tell me they sent a letter I didn't get 'cause I was on the road working...now I can't get insurance. The guy I talked to was useless and even hung up on me...awful service and they completely screwed me over for something that wasn't my fault. Good job RBC. Way to keep it classy.

I have been a customer with RBC insurance for over 10 years. I will not be renewing my auto policy with RBC because of the lengthy wait times and the incompetence that I have experienced when dealing with their agents. I recently had to deal with RBC insurance over a small auto insurance claim and the whole process was extremely painful. For example, I was informed to wait for an adjuster to call me but the adjuster never did call the number I provided. Called again and left a new number and again no return phone call. The adjustor decided to leave a message at my home number in spite of me reminding RBC insurance agents several times that we were away during the summer. Very poor communication skills. Unfortunately, RBC insurance has gone downhill since Aviva came into the picture. I don't remember having lengthy wait times in previous years when contacting RBC, when changing vehicles, etc.. It now takes over an hour each time. This was a major problem when asked to fill out some forms Aviva required as the agents are never available for help within a reasonable time. The required paperwork also asked very obscure questions such as the weight and how many cylinders for each vehicle that even the RBC agent could not help me answer. When asked about the total of my last claim, again the RBC agent could not give me that information because he had yet to receive it from Aviva although the accident happened three months prior. Again, very poor communication. I also encountered a problem when trying to send Aviva some insurance renewal forms before the deadline. In spite of calling Aviva customer service directly to forward the paperwork, their agent gave me the wrong email address. As a result, Aviva cancelled my policy when the application was not received on time. By the way, my family and I have been responsible customers with RBC for over 10 years. My claim was around six thousand dollars with no prior tickets or convictions within our family. The RBC agent gave me some fabricated excuse that I was at fault because I should have gotten the correct email address from him and not the Aviva agent in spite of having the original email as proof that the paperwork was indeed sent on time to their "Aviva Care Centre" general mailbox. Unbelievable! Perhaps they should rename their general mailbox "Aviva No Care Centre" as they definitely do not care about their customers. The RBC agent politely replied that I could reapply for their auto insurance as a new customer, that I would have to resubmit all of the forms, and that the whole process would take approximately two to three weeks. I replied, "No thank you".

I was stupid and switched to RBC 4yrs ago, I haven't fit one good thing to say about them be it horrible customer service constantly increasing rates, and they refuse to fix your vehicle properly even when I took it to their approved facility. Now they quote me a price then won't put full coverage until I took it for inspection, so after 6 weeks of the only 1 place that does this for RBC finally doing it, they double my deductible, double the cost, say they won't cover the rims or the stereo, and they will only pay half what the auction value is on the car!! I have multiple vehicles and multiple house policies, and now ill be taking it elsewhere!! Did I mention I have no tickets and only 2 claims in 20 years!!

Never ever dealing with RBC anymore.
Especially your auto insurance the worst customer service ever since September 02, 2022, I was calling to cancel my auto policy because the car was sold so no need for it.
Every time I called waiting on the phone for a minimum of 4 hours. It took me more than one month and a half just to cancel my insurance and they said they can't refund me until I prove that I called many times by sending them a list of calls and such things. Seriously you guys are disgusting.

We have been a loyal customer for years. They like to make a lot of mistakes. I made an inquiry for my brother in law for an auto quote. It was clear to the agent that the phone call was an inquiry. She put my brother in law on our insurance policy. After fighting and going back and forth they realize the agent was WRONG for putting him there. We had to prove he did not resign with us and he found another company to go with. We were blamed and told we purposely put him on our policy which we DID NOT and it was an inquiry quote. We still had to pay $100 extra on our monthly insurance. They gave us a $13 discount for the “in convince”. Now this recent incident got me furious. We were charged double payments. Now we cancelled our insurance thinking of switching but changed our minds about the new company we wanted to be with. We were uninsured for 2 weeks. Now our renewal is for August/September. Took off the insurance aug 14, reinstated it August 25. Upon being reinstated the representative told us that THEY will be collecting payment in 2 days (August 28) and be prepared to make a payment. We agreed and we were prepared for the payment. 3 days went by after the payment was “supposed” to come out of the account. THEY PAYMENT DID NOT COME OUT. We called back RBC and the representative said they payment is due September 30 of $338. (Nothing more nothing less) Shortly after we got out new renewal papers. On the payment schedule, I’ve notice June had 2 payments. (June 1 and June 30) We went away to Orlando last week of September/October. As of September, 30 RBC insurance took our $676 out of our account! While on vacation. Do you know the frustration they just caused us! And they claimed we owed them?!? Are you serious? Went back and forth numerous representatives that day. Representatives did not want us to talk to the supervisor. Kept giving us the runaround. Finally got a callback today. And clearly, nothing was resolved. The supervisor did not want to do anything. Did not want to investigate the situation nor wanted to hear the recording of what was conversed with us. We told the supervisor that’s false information they were giving us. And all she said was “oh well they will be retrained or they will lose their job” - how the fuck does that help? No representative told us double payment was coming out at all! Was not told anything. RBC told us that it “was too close” to take out payment. So why were we not aware of this? They just assumed. The money was in the account. No email, no letter no phone call. NOTHING just take take take money. DO NOT GO WITH RBC!