How to File a Complaint Against Hastings and Hear Back Quickly

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How to File a Complaint Against Hastings and Hear Back Quickly

You pay your car, home, and bike insurance promptly and depend on the Hastings Direct company to honour their contracts. When it doesn't then you need to file a . Your Hastings Direct complaint will be logged, investigated, and sent to an agent for resolution. Hastings Direct could lose your complaint and not respond much like other companies like Hermes, Ofcom, Tesco, BBC, and British Gas. What do you do then?

DoNotPay is here to ensure customer complaints to Hastings Direct, Royal Mail, Virgin Media, Carshield, Chipotle, and Starbucks do not go unanswered. With the information from a simple online form, DoNotPay can begin to create letters and compile the uploaded documents to support your complaint. Read on to find out how DoNotPay can help you with your resolution.

How to Make a Complaint to Hastings Direct Insurance Company

website states that they are deeply committed to aiding customers in resolving issues. They are dedicated to responding to all complaints. However, we all know a response can be an automated letter letting you know that the company has received your complaint online and is working toward a resolution.

Now, here’s what you should do:

  1. After receiving a generic notice, you might want to give the company some time to process the complaint.
  2. If after two weeks, in business days, there is no response escalate your complaint from an email to a live agent either online or over the telephone.
  3. Hastings Direct is committed to responding to all complaints by the end of the third business day. You should receive a formal written response if they cannot complete the inquiry before the end of the fifth business day.
  4. It is important to note that complaints directed to the insurer and not Hastings Direct as your agent will need to be filed with the insurer for resolution.
Ways to Contact Hastings Direct Customer Support
Phone Number0333-999-8904
Online Contact FormMake a Complaint
TwitterSend a Tweet
Mailing AddressCustomer Relations Manager

Hastings Direct, Conquest House

Collington Avenue, Bexhill-On-Sea

East Sussex, TN39 3LW

Alternative Ways to File a Complaint Against Hastings Direct

Waiting for resolution should not take more than a business week according to Hastings Direct's website. However, if there have been more than eight weeks without a final response that satisfies your complaint you are well within your rights to pursue other avenues of recompense like:

  1. Contacting the Financial Ombudsman.
  2. Issuing a complaint to the European Commission Online Dispute Resolution.
  3. recompense in the small claims court.

To contact the Financial Ombudsman to help with your resolution you can contact:

Be sure to have your documentation about the complaint in line before contacting the Ombudsman. You will want a chronological outline of the issue beginning with the first contact or purchase through the issue the complaint is about, communication with Hastings Direct, and listings of deadlines the company has missed.

For policies bought online the European Commission Online Dispute Resolution can assist in resolving your complaint. Contacting the service does not replace contacting the Ombudsman and neither process will adversely affect your rights. Either service will help mediate the conflict and aid with a peaceful and fair resolution.

The last possibility is to take Hastings Direct to a small claims court if no peaceful resolution is formed. Keep in mind that a small claims court only allows a maximum of £10,000 in damages. Larger sums will need to be legally recompensed in other courts.

DoNotPay can help with all methods of filing formal complaints and can even assist with filling out small claims court documentation. Simply fill out the proper form, upload your documentation, and DoNotPay will create a letter explaining the circumstances and requesting aid in resolving the complaint.

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To get started, simply follow these steps:

  1. Log into your DoNotPay account or create a new one if you haven't already made one.
  2. Find the "File a Complaint" service.
  3. Select the complaint type from the list that most accurately describes your complaint with Deliveroo.
  4. Follow the on-screen prompts, providing as much detail as possible.
  5. Upload documentation that provides evidence that supports your claim.
  6. Hit "Submit".

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