Insurance policy number - identify the company...

mailforkev · 24-09-2010 10:14am #1

Guy I work with here was crashed into by another car.

He took the guy's policy number from the windscreen but forgot to get the guy's reg. He has the guy's name and phone number but is getting dicked around by him with false reg information.

So he's trying to figure out what company the policy is with before getting the guards involved.

Format of the number is 123456/w.

So good people of the Motors forum, any thoughts?

Anan1 · 24-09-2010 10:16am

Why not pass what he has on to his own insurance company and let them deal with it?

djimi · 24-09-2010 10:19am

Anan1 wrote: »

Why not pass what he has on to his own insurance company and let them deal with it?

Exactly. I dont think there is a way to identify the company from the policy number is there?

mailforkev · 24-09-2010 10:21am

I think originally he was trying not to go through either insurance, but now that he is, they seem to insist on him having the other guy's reg which he doesn't have.

Just thought I'd pop it on here to see if anyone had a quick answer.

Was very little damage done, think he's more annoyed about the guy lying to him.

monkeypants · 24-09-2010 10:22am

mailforkev wrote: »

getting dicked around by him with false reg information.

Let the gardai know.

mailforkev · 24-09-2010 10:23am

djimi wrote: »

Exactly. I dont think there is a way to identify the company from the policy number is there?

I'm with Zurich as is another workmate and our policy numbers are both in the same format. E.g. 00DMV1234567.

I'm just hazarding a guess that each insurer has an internal format that they use.

mailforkev · 24-09-2010 10:28am

monkeypants wrote: »

Let the gardai know.

I know, this was also my advice, he's going to do it at lunchtime I think.

bazz26 · 24-09-2010 10:37am

If the other party is messing around and giving false information then let the insurance company deal with all further interactions. Also definately log a report with the Gardai.

djimi · 24-09-2010 10:41am

You could actually be right about the format of the number actually; my Eagle Star policy number was also in that format (with xxDMV at the start) and I just checked my policy number and a couple of cars parked around me and they do all seem to have a unique format.

That format mentioned in the OP looks familiar to me, like one I used to have. It might be Axa...

Hasmunch · 24-09-2010 10:45am

I'm with Aviva and my policy number is a 9 number sequence, no letters.

e.g. 546789123

MacGyver · 24-09-2010 10:46am

im with axa and just had a look at mine, you are correct. its format is 11/11/1111111(w).

ianobrien · 24-09-2010 11:05am

MacGyver wrote: »

im with axa and just had a look at mine, you are correct. its format is 11/11/1111111(w).

I'm with AXA as well, and I've seen it in the 11/11/1111111(W) format and in the 11111111/W format as well.

sophie1234 · 24-09-2010 11:08am

i took some ones insurance details after a crash once there poilcy number was simalar to that except it was /E or something it was flood maguire insurance brokers! so that format could be for a broker!

all insurance companys have different formats or letters in there poilcy numbers

djimi · 24-09-2010 11:11am

sophie1234 wrote: »

i took some ones insurance details after a crash once there poilcy number was simalar to that except it was /E or something it was flood maguire insurance brokers! so that format could be for a broker!

all insurance companys have different formats or letters in there poilcy numbers

I dont think brokers have their own policy numbers; as far as I know (and I could be wrong) they are only issuing the policy number as given by the insurance company.

sophie1234 · 24-09-2010 11:20am

djimi wrote: »

I dont think brokers have their own policy numbers; as far as I know (and I could be wrong) they are only issuing the policy number as given by the insurance company.

ye you could be right i only delt with the broker and then then kenco..witch im not sure if they were just part of flood maguire or the underlying company!