Markerstudy Insurance?

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Hi

My insurance is managed through a comapny called Noel Dazely, who have found my best price with Highway Insurance for the last few years. Aparently Highway have now been bought by LV and my renewal from them is nearly £1000 up from about £500 last year with no change in circumstance.

Noel Dazely have now come back to me with a better renewal quote of £550 with a comany called MarkerStudy.

Just wondering if anyone knows of them or any comments about this company at all?

Thanks.
 
I was meant to be insured with them through A- Plan last year. Got the written quote/confirmation though, paid... then when the policy documents arrived it was with Group Ama instead. Turns out they wouldn't insure people with my profession in an ///M car for some reason (what's so special about IT Consulting I don't know, I guess they have some bad image about excessive business use and commuting about, even though i spend 12-18 months at a time at the same site!!). I guess A-Plan hadn't quite done their research properly.

I looked around a bit at the time about MarkerStudy and couldn't find any dirt... Certainly sounds much better than the likes of Highways!
 
Thanks for that. Strange you say about A Plan and IT jobs, I got a quote from them last week and they said they might struggle with me being in IT. A Plan quoted £750, which is better than the initial £1000 renewal, but still way off the £550 offer with MarkerStudy.

Seems like I'll just go with it then :)

Cheers.
 
I'm with Brentacre, a similar broker to yours and they use Marker Study for my policy. I was with Chris Knott previously who used highway and most others seemed to.

I'd never heard of Marker Study before either but very competitive policy, all modifications declared and even a power limit agreed which I can modify my car up to at no extra cost. Additional mods, no charge, just call the broker and let them know.

So, can't fault it yet, but all I've done is pay the premium lol :)
 
Stormster said:
I'm with Brentacre, a similar broker to yours and they use Marker Study for my policy. I was with Chris Knott previously who used highway and most others seemed to.

I'd never heard of Marker Study before either but very competitive policy, all modifications declared and even a power limit agreed which I can modify my car up to at no extra cost. Additional mods, no charge, just call the broker and let them know.

So, can't fault it yet, but all I've done is pay the premium lol :)
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Same with my DC2.

No horror stories like highway, hp limit I could never dream of reaching with a B18C, but although mods are covered it doesn't seem to be like for like replacement.
 
My bike was insured with MarkerStudy. I was a bit concerned about having never heard of them but apparantly they only deal with brokers and I never had any problems with them. The level of cover was good aswell- they didn't cut any corners with the cover and were fine with amendments etc.
 
siust007 said:
It might offer the cheapest car insurance but making a claim is a nightmare. The way this company operates is to suck you in with the cheapest insurance, but when things happen a claim is next to impossible to claim against. THINK WISELY BEFORE GOING WITH THEM.
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Seconding this Markerstudy are useless when it comes to claim time.

What I find particularly annoying about them is that they put no effort into defending their own insured against bogus claims, preferring to just pay out and take away your NCB.

We had an incident where having arrived home late and disturbed a bunch of criminals attempting to steal my Subaru, my GF who was using the MarketStudy DOC to drive my Passat, was attacked by them, and while attempting to get away they used another car to attempt to ram her off the road, in avoiding this she put a small scrape down the side of an Alfa hatchback, had she not avoided it the Passat would have ended up embedded in the side of said Alfa.
While this accident was clearly caused by the drivers of the other car, MarkerStudy just couldn't be bothered to argue with the other insurance and she lost her NCB.

They also give you ridiculously low prices for write offs, for example £850 for my GFs Stage 2 S13 200SX after being rear ended by a difficult to trace driver even after being given invoices for the full restoration and respray and the freshly built engine that had gone into it last year, along with a collection of adverts and successful for sale thread for cars in a similar condition, all of which were going for way above the 2 grand mark (which is what we ended up paying to get another one that was in a worse state).

We did eventually get the NCB back for that one, but only because I managed to trace the drivers insurers myself, but MarkerStudy did nothing with the information I gave them. Oh no, it was eventually the MIB who actually bothered to take into account the information I'd given and go demanding the money back, but this was 2 years later so bye bye NCB.

This year she's gone with Adrian Flux, The phrase "out of the frying pan" spring to mind. At least the underwriter isn't Flux's usual one, Equity Red Star, who are the only insurance company I've dealt with personally that are less competent than MarkerStudy.
 
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