Making a Complaint
Your complaint is important to us and should be made in the first instance to your usual Marsh contact. Alternatively you can address your complaint to:
Head of Quality Marsh Ltd
Tower Place London
EC3R 5BU
Email: quality.feedback@marsh.com
Complaint Process
We will aim to resolve your complaint on the spot or if this is not possible within three business days of receipt. If you are satisfied, we will send you a response confirming the resolution. If we’re unable to resolve your complaint, we will send you an acknowledgement within five business days of receiving your complaint.
Your complaint will be investigated by somebody who is competent and as far as is possible by an individual who is unconnected to the subject of your complaint. Your complaint will be investigated diligently and will be assessed fairly, consistently and promptly.
We will undertake a thorough investigation of your complaint, which may take time. However, in the event that we have been unable to conclude our enquiries within a four week period, we will contact you with the reason why. If we’re unable to resolve your complaint within an eight week period, we will write to you and let you know, where possible, when we expect to be in a position to issue our Final Response Letter.
If you are eligible, we will also provide you with details of your right to refer the matter to the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Resolving your complaint
When we have finalised our investigation into your complaint, we will issue our Final Response Letter.
Our final response will be:
- fair, clear and not misleading;
- provide details of our investigation and decision; and
- if relevant, include any offer of remedial action or the appropriate level of redress (or both).
If you are unhappy with our resolution to your complaint, you may be eligible to refer your complaint to Lloyd’s of London and/or the Financial Ombudsman Service.
Lloyd’s of London Policyholders
If you are a Lloyd’s of London policyholder, you may if you wish, refer your complaint to Lloyd’s. Lloyd’s will investigate the matter and provide a final response. Lloyd’s contact details are as follows:
Complaints
Lloyd’s
London EC3M 7HA
Email: complaints@lloyds.com
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7327 5693
Fax: +44 (0)20 7327 5225
Website: www.lloyds.com/complaints
Ultimately, should you also remain dissatisfied with Lloyd’s final response, you may, if eligible, refer your complaint to the Ombudsman.
Financial Ombudsman Service
You may be eligible to refer a complaint to the Ombudsman if:
- you are a private policyholder; or
- a natural person acting for purposes which are outside his trade, business, craft or profession; or
- a micro enterprise (an enterprise that employs fewer than ten people and whose annual turnover and/or annual balance sheet total does not exceed EURO 2 million); or
- a charity which has an annual income of less than £6.5 million at the time the complainant refers the complaint; or
- a trustee of a trust which has a net asset value of less than £5 million at the time the complainant refers the complaint; or
- (in relation to consumer buy-to-let business) a buy-to-let consumer; or
- a small business (has an annual turnover of less than £6.5 million and; employs fewer than 50 people or has a balance sheet of less than £5 million) at the time the complainant refers the complaint; or
- a guarantor.
Please note that if you wish to refer your complaint to the Ombudsman, this must be done within 6 months of the date of our Final Response letter, or you may lose that right. Details of this right and an explanatory leaflet will be provided with your final response letter.
Further information can be found on the Ombudsman’s website and within their leaflet ‘Want to take your complaint further?’ The address of the Ombudsman is:
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS)
Exchange Tower
London
E14 9SR
Telephone: 0800 023 4 567
Email: complaint.info@financial-ombudsman.org.uk
FOS Website: http://www.fos.org.uk/