After 15 years of being a loyal customer they cancel my insurance
by CANCELLED on Sep 5, 2024
1 out of 5 stars
Insurance policy was cancelled without warning and with no attempt to contact me due to “non-payment”. The company has my address, email, and phone number, and yet I did not receive any communication of an issue with the payment at any point. I only found out when I was required to renew my license plate the following year - and Belair expected me to pay an extra $2000 each year because of their screw-up. Save yourself the hassle and go somewhere else.
I called to pay my NSF, was told my policy was canceled due to none payments. I paid my NSF, was told I could open another policy. They wanted full amount over $2000 I had only 1 cancelation. I've been a good driver for 30yrs, no tickets. The agent told me I had 2 cancelation after he put his company in which I paid amount owing $215. I was canceled for literally $215 didn't give me a chance to explain. He stated I won't find anyone cheaper or do monthly, he was wrong. I found another company cheaper & did monthly. This Company are liars.
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The worst company I have ever dealt with. Never get insurance here! They tried taking a double payment, when my policy started on a new billing cycle they still took money from my account for the previous month that I did not have insurance for. Try calling and speaking to an agent to change my payment date, and they advised it would be a double payment as it is a month-to-month contract. Call back to cancel as I found better insurance for over 1200.00 cheaper per year, and now it’s a year's contract, even though I spent over 45 minutes the day before with the agent telling me several times it’s a month by month contract. Was advised that I would have to pay 175.00 to cancel, advised I wouldn’t pay that they put me on hold to speak to their manager who refused to waive the fee when I asked to speak with him about his decision I was told oh he doesn’t talk to the consumer. This company is not worried about the consumer, just about the money. Such a lack in customer service and empathy. Advised them to listen to the taped conversation before he decided not to waive the cancellation fee, and was advised that’s not his job? So now have to wait up to 48 hrs to speak to someone else to get the fee waived, which we know will be denied! Worst company when it comes to service and the consumer, they only care about money!!!!
Have both home and auto for two cars. I made two home claims as a result of a Windstorm one year, then a fish tank water damage the next year. The claims process was very good, fast, and handled perfectly. However, afterwards, they would not renew my home insurance because of having two claims, then my vehicle insurance went WAY up. They could not reduce the cost of the auto, so I got car insurance significantly cheaper elsewhere. The problem was, I could not get the auto renewal to not happen because I could not get through to an agent on the phone - been on hold for well over an hour, numerous times, trying and get it cancelled. And you cannot do it online, it tells you to call. I'm still trying to get through on the phone and get it cancelled. Ridiculously long wait times on the phone to speak with anyone, and they have no call back feature set up..
Waiting time is too long to get in contact with an agent, just to cancel my policy.
Agents keep redirecting me to different people to solve the same problem.
Belair's original quote was $124.00 a month. I specifically stated that they were to withdraw the money on the 30th of every month. Without my knowledge they withdrew
$233.99 from my bank account 2 days later.
What made me discover this?
Three days after they took the money out of my account, I received a cancellation of my insurance letter.
This is what Belair Insurance Company does to seniors with low incomes.
So essentially I received 5 days of coverage for $233.99.
Now they have me in collections for $1617.00.
P.S. I never had a claim in my life of driving for 50 years.
Cancelled insurance because their app was not working and i could not get my documents ever they said they mailed it to me but i never got it and they refused to provide me info on how much i got discounted for the driving school i went to i had to cancel midterm and they asked me to pay 520 dollars to cancel and i said no and they threatened to send me to debt collectors after tons of arguments i got the cancel price down to 300 and left my insurance history is not ruined but screw these scammers.
I would never recommend belairdirect to anyone looking for insurance. I wanted to cancel my auto renewal which went from $1400 to $2400 a year. But 12:01 on the renewal date was early this morning so they want to charge me $256.00 to cancel a policy I did not renew. Hard to believe that an insurance company we have had for years, no moving violations and no accidents could actually almost double our insurance renewal and then without our consent [or payment] renew it and then have the audacity to change us for a cancellation roughly 12 hours after the effective date. We will be changing our home insurance a week before our due date to ensure we have nothing more to do with them.
YOU WILL BE INFLUENCED BY THEIR SALES REPRESENTATIVES TO REGISTER WITH THEIR SERVICES as they might be a little bit more competitive prices than other auto insurances. This is what has happened to me. I regret it big times for not viewing the reviews here. I offer pre-authorized payments 6 weeks prior to the end of my auto insurance. I contact the customer representatives 3 times and I declared to them that I do not wish to renew my auto insurance. They ignored me and they kept withdrawing their monthly payment from my bank account. So the last month, I contact my bank and put a STOP payment. Belairdirect has charged me $40 banking fees plus taxes. Now I am escalating this issue to the consumer alert at CTV NEWS. It is probably the worst auto insurance in the country! All they care about is obtaining your money.
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After 15 years of paying car insurance on time with Belair, I received a letter of cancellation of my policy less than 1 month before I run out of insurance, they made it so no other insurance company would take me on and the entire thing is completely injustice, they cancelled my insurance because I made an unsafe lane change and that signaled to them, I'm a BIG liability. When I spoke to any agent to clarify what exactly took place to come to canceling me, they were like robots, no empathy, and just patronizing. Even their letter was a slap in the face, they let me know I'm cancelled they had the audacity to remind me it's a VIOLATION to drive without insurance.