Pinnacle Insurance PLC

Avoid Cardif Pinnacle at all costs. To give you some background I am a self employed drilling materials co-ordinator working in the North Sea on the oilrigs therefore I took on a policy to cover Accident, Sickness & Unemployment back in December 2004. Everything was fine, Pinnacle was getting monthly payments, I was or thought I was covered then came the recession and the oil companies stopped drilling, my contract came to an end and I was forced to seek Job Seekers Allowance and suspend my company. I got Pinnacles claim form filled in including the bit from my accountant and the Job Centre ... more

From the outset I would like to make it perfectly clear that the whole concept of insurance appals me. We are made to pay out vast sums of money each year out of fear. Isn’t that the same as extortion? We pay buildings and contents insurance on our homes in the event that we may come home one day to find that our house is no longer standing, or more realistically that some scumbag that can not be bothered to get out of bed and go to work to feed their drug habit has decided that your computer, D.V.D. player, microwave or whatever will buy their daily fix, decides that it's your turn to ... more