Insurance Jobs

[TheDonUK]

So my girlfriend works for a phone insurance company, but place she is at, the staff are highly unproffessional and treat the office like a ghetto playground. Plus they are now saying as of the new year all staff will be required to switch from their current 5 day a week schedule to rotating shifts including saturdays...

I suggested apart from looking for a cushdy government admin job, why not look at car insurance? from my experience they are raking it in from us poor road users..

Any BCF'ers have experience within the insurance industry, specifically motors, whats the pay like? Advice?

Cheers
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[mooserx]

i've got a few friends who work in a local call centre selling insurance of all kinds, car,bike, home, life cover all that stuff

most say its just a job and pays the bills, a couple take it really seriously and have started up the career ladder, having worked in the past for bt, i should imagine that (if my experience is anything to go by) that in a call centre you would just be in a cubicle battering phone calls all day like a beast, but a smaller insurance company or a local broker would be a little more relaxed and more customer service focused rather than sales orientated

[TheDonUK]

Cheers for the reply,

My girl is a hardworker, shes the one that pulls up all the slack in that office and the one that gets the bonuses, and shes on about that pay, 16.5k which is barely enough to live nowadays...

Trying to find her a job thats in the region of 20k, she prefers the admin side to the calls...

Secretary? PA?
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[mooserx]

[trevoriv]

Personal lines insurance is just call centres, thats pretty much it, the same goes for claims.

Commercial insurance is much more relaxed as is working in a brokerage the only problem with going down the broker route is that you need to know a hell of a lot.
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[Chriss]

I worked for Saga for about a year, as a claims handler. Money was fairly rubbish (£12k+bonus, but rarely hit targets required for bonus), hence only worked there for a year, but the biggest thing that annoyed me was learning so much about insurance, you realise that "everyone's an expert". Third party is so frustrating, as you realise everyone's a liar, and the perfect driver Working on the Accidental Damage side, you realise how much a lot of companies rip off insurance companies, and Total Loss was annoying having to either rip people off, or explain that a 20 year old car was never worth £10k, and the insurance company is never going to pay £10k. The theft side looked like fun, but never got there.

Personally, I would never work on the claims side of insurance again.
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[Phoenix]

Different brokers get different deals with certain underwriters. Taking motor insurance as an example, there are only a relatively limited number of underwriters, but hundreds of brokers. Yet there's a few brokers that can consistently get better rates than most others with the same underwriters, presumably because they supply the most business or supply a 'statistically safe' stream of customers and get the best rates off the underwriters.

My car insurance is with a broker and underwritten by NIG, its about £350. Yet other brokers quoting me with NIG as the underwriters were returning premiums anywhere upto £1100.

[D O G]

Did anyone else think this thread was going to be about scamming insurance co's for payouts? How disappointed I was when I clicked on it.