[Misc] Car Insurance and Parking Madness

Eeyore said:

So this evening I walk past my car to find that I have a parking ticket. A bit strange as I have a residents permit (although not displayed in the window but that has never been an issue). I check my emails to find a request to renew that I must have passed by. No excuse really, I'll have to pay it.

It seems a bit strange though as my car has not been fined since the renewal date which was 29th September.

I have to upload my insurance certificate to the site but it won't download from the Co-op insurance site. So I call them. I'm told that my name doesn't match that on the policy. I explain that it's been my name for 51 years.

It turns out that the policy has my initials on it and not my name. They then try to charge me to change the name as any claim may not be paid if made. I tell the person there is no way a court of law would uphold that given that all checks have been made against my name, it has the correct address and date of birth and can be clearly identified as me. I get some random ramble about GDPR and we agree to disagree. The irony being that when I offer all names on my driving license I am told they only need my first name...

So my two questions to the NSC elite

1) Anyone know how traffic wardens have been walking past my car and not issuing fines ?
2) Who is right in Eeyore v The Co-op Insurance 2024 concerning potential claims ?

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Eeyore said:

So this evening I walk past my car to find that I have a parking ticket. A bit strange as I have a residents permit (although not displayed in the window but that has never been an issue). I check my emails to find a request to renew that I must have passed by. No excuse really, I'll have to pay it.

It seems a bit strange though as my car has not been fined since the renewal date which was 29th September.

I have to upload my insurance certificate to the site but it won't download from the Co-op insurance site. So I call them. I'm told that my name doesn't match that on the policy. I explain that it's been my name for 51 years.

It turns out that the policy has my initials on it and not my name. They then try to charge me to change the name as any claim may not be paid if made. I tell the person there is no way a court of law would uphold that given that all checks have been made against my name, it has the correct address and date of birth and can be clearly identified as me. I get some random ramble about GDPR and we agree to disagree. The irony being that when I offer all names on my driving license I am told they only need my first name...

So my two questions to the NSC elite

1) Anyone know how traffic wardens have been walking past my car and not issuing fines ?
2) Who is right in Eeyore v The Co-op Insurance 2024 concerning potential claims ?

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Eeyore said:

So this evening I walk past my car to find that I have a parking ticket. A bit strange as I have a residents permit (although not displayed in the window but that has never been an issue). I check my emails to find a request to renew that I must have passed by. No excuse really, I'll have to pay it.

It seems a bit strange though as my car has not been fined since the renewal date which was 29th September.

I have to upload my insurance certificate to the site but it won't download from the Co-op insurance site. So I call them. I'm told that my name doesn't match that on the policy. I explain that it's been my name for 51 years.

It turns out that the policy has my initials on it and not my name. They then try to charge me to change the name as any claim may not be paid if made. I tell the person there is no way a court of law would uphold that given that all checks have been made against my name, it has the correct address and date of birth and can be clearly identified as me. I get some random ramble about GDPR and we agree to disagree. The irony being that when I offer all names on my driving license I am told they only need my first name...

So my two questions to the NSC elite

1) Anyone know how traffic wardens have been walking past my car and not issuing fines ?
2) Who is right in Eeyore v The Co-op Insurance 2024 concerning potential claims ?

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Eeyore said:

So this evening I walk past my car to find that I have a parking ticket. A bit strange as I have a residents permit (although not displayed in the window but that has never been an issue).

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Chicken Run said:

What so you don’t have to display a parking permit now in your car?? Even if you have one, i have read that right haven’t i?

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Chicken Run said:

What so you don’t have to display a parking permit now in your car?? Even if you have one, i have read that right haven’t i?

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Eeyore said:

I seemed to take perverse delight in causing them the extra work.

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Chicken Run said:

Since BHCC introduced ’soft parking’ zones in my street the residents love the ability to be able to park now that it seems it’s only residents now who park there rather than people who dump their car for weeks at a time who don’t live there. I’m pretty certain the council will introduce parking zones for all city roads in the near future.

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BrightonCottager said:

I dunno about this. Until residents complain about on street parking the Council may not do anything. The domino effect pushing cheapskate cars, vans and commercial vehicles further out seems to have reached the suburbs where this can be absorbed, apart from Surrenden (whose residents rejected a scheme back in about 2018 when Zone F was being proposed).

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Chicken Run said:

What so you don’t have to display a parking permit now in your car?? Even if you have one, i have read that right haven’t i?

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