Ours was more like £600. 👿
I called up (having exhausted options on the comparison sites) and asked for reasons to explain the increase. “Didn’t you know?” the customer support girl (hah!) replied. “It’s all the no win, no fee cases. We’re paying out on so many of those. So your premium goes up…”
“Okay,” I countered. “Where’s the evidence? You’re telling me there were, like, 40% more cases this year than last year? That’s a little difficult to accept.”
“Well,” she replied. “That’s just the way it is.”
Classic customer support!
Oh, I also asked her if there was a way to access the information the insurance companies use to gauge insurance costs relative to post code – number of crimes, number of accidents, yah-da, yah-da, yah-da.
Not only does such a service not seem to exist, but apparently I was the first person to ask…