Insurance Cert, Name spelled wrong?

Stinicker

Hi Guys,

My father renewed insurance today on the car, He was a customer of Quinn Direct since 2006 but Liberty Insurance wouldn't lower their quotation and were downright plain ignorant on the phone so he moved to an Independent broker and got a quotation €190 cheaper!

My father today went into the insurance brokers office with all the documentation and driving licenses of those on the policy, himself, my mother, sister and I. This evening I looked at it and spotted that whoever did up the policy spelled my own surname and my mothers wrong despite all four of having the same surname and it being spelled right on all the liberty documentation and our driving licences. It is spelled all wrong like Smyth instead of Smith and Riley instead of Reilly, it sounds the same but is clearly spelled wrong.

I am wondering does this now render me and my mum uncovered? Our dates of birth is down another part of the policy and the clerk got them right and my fathers and sisters surname right also! I often drive my father places in his car so am on the policy for that but am wondering if in the unfortunate event of I having a crash or anything could some nitpicker somewhere render me uninsured and convict me of having no insurance etc.

I swear, if you'd given them the name over the phone or something I'd get it but they had like half a dozen examples of the name infront of them yet still spelled it wrong.

Anyone have this happen to them before?

blindside88

I work in car insurance and this kind of thing happens all the time (misspelled names, wrong gender, wrong dob etc) it won't render the insurance invalid but may slow up the claims process should you be unfortunate enough. Just give them a call and they'll reissue the documents with the correct info

Marcusm

Could be worse; I went to school with a guy who had a different surname from his parents and siblings cause the registrar thought they knew how to spell the family's name better than his father. Never changed it.