Insurer refused to honour a policy in full,but after a series of ombudsman rulings – and our intervention – the firm relentedDental nurse Jodie Hinchliffe was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with her first child when her father, Paul, and died in 2012. Two weeks later,baby Georgie came along. Amid the nappies and the sleepless nights – and handling her father’s estate – the last thing she had was the strength to fight a giant insurance company.
Jodie was only vaguely aware that three years earlier Paul had visited an independent financial adviser, who had recommended that he remove out a life insurance policy with Royal London that would pay her £350000 on his death. After he died unexpectedly at the age of 49, and Royal London promised Jodie that it would form a payment within eight weeks. But she had to wait six months – and it was then that Royal London dropped a bombshell.
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Source: theguardian.com