Balens Ltd and Balens Insurance Finance Services Ltd (BIFS) are ethical companies, and customer satisfaction is a cornerstone of our business. We always aim to get things right first time and we are committed to ensuring that we achieve the highest level of service for our customers.

If you feel this hasn’t happened, we would like to hear about it so that we have an opportunity to put things right for you and to improve our service in the future. Your complaint will be reviewed promptly and fairly by an independent party to the complaint itself.

How to complain:

If you wish to raise a complaint you can contact us by telephone, email or in writing. Details can be found in your policy documentation or by emailing complaints@balens.co.uk 

To help us investigate and resolve your complaint, please provide the following:

  • Your policy number
  • Details of your complaint
  • Your contact details and your preferred method of contact – these will help us should we need to discuss your complaint or require further information

Our Process:

We will promptly acknowledge your complaint and we will try to resolve your complaint immediately. If this is not possible, we will write to you within 5 days informing you whether further investigation is necessary.

In the event that your complaint has not been resolved within 4 weeks of its receipt, we will contact you again and provide an update; the reasons why and the further action we will take.

If following our investigation and response to you, you are not satisfied with the outcome or we do not complete our investigation within 8 weeks, you can refer your complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Services (FOS).

If you receive a final response letter from us and you are dissatisfied with the outcome and you want to contact the Financial Ombudsman Services (FOS) you must do so within 6 months of the date of our final response letter.

Their contact details are shown below, and we will include a copy of the FOS leaflet with our final response letter.

Financial Ombudsman Service
Exchange Tower
Harbour Exchange Square
London
E14 9SR

Telephone: 0800 023 4567 or 0300 123 9123

www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk

Lloyds

If your policy is underwritten by a Lloyds Syndicate, it may be possible for you to refer the matter to the complaints team at Lloyds. Please refer to Balens for guidance. The address of Lloyd’s is; Complaints Team, 1 Lime Street, London EC3M 7HA, telephone 020 7327 5693 or complaints-notification@lloyds.com