Hello & Thank You...

  The incidental exemption, or enrolling activity by the banks, is actually quite massive...

 Estimates are 2 million dollars a year per bank to administer, with a 20 million dollar profit per year...

 This is for the incidental enrolling...

 So the banks ARE selling insurance...

 That little afterthought exemption took $3,000.00 dollars out of my pocket...During the worst decade of my self-employed business life...

 There are probably tens of thousands of people like myself in Canada who were missold this exempted insurance by the bank, over the phone...

 Once you say yes over the phone, the money is automatically taken from your credit card without another word or any signed confirmation at all...

 Statistics on insurance state quite factually that in insurance "enrollment", the vast majority, over 90 per cent, of people who say yes to an insurance policy over the phone, do not or are not able to read or thoroughly understand/comprehend any written documentation that may or may not appear 10 days later in the mail...People who can say yes over the phone are not necessarily qualified to read or give informed consent to complicated & obfuscatory written insurance policies...

I have been through the entire ombudsprocess with the agencies mentioned...I have also attempted to use other intervention with other agencies not mentioned below...

 The insurance industry is making HUGE money on balance protection insurance...

As are the banks...

 Which is why I have not gotten my money back yet...They don't want to give it back...Even though they know that it is wrong...

 They all know they have taken money wrongly...But they are hurting too, so they have turned a blind eye...

 I have been in touch with a major Class Action law firm here in Canada...

 They are looking into a Class Action lawsuit against all the banks in Canada who have sold balance protection insurance...

 In The States & England this has happened already & ALL people sold a policy by a bank are getting a refund...ALL...ALL people who have EVER been sold a policy on a credit card by a bank...

 That is how bad this is...

Canada is the last country to correct this wrong...

It should be our government who initiates this action...Not a law firm...

But our government has been slow to act, because they are in bed with the banks...

The answers below sound good don't they?

But they are meaningless when one person attempts to jump through those hoops...

The incidental exemption is key...

Legislation is only regulating licensed insurers...

Nothing about the banks...

That is the loophole...It is a giant black hole loophole...


Sincerely, Sari Grove
grovecanada.ca
 
http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cardsloans/article-1606455/Reclaim-PPI-premiums--payment-protection-insurance.html This link speaks to balance protection insurance cases in England...It is the same qualification as it is in Canada...Go through the list in the article & see if any of the factors apply to your own situation...If it does apply, then you can qualify for a refund here in Canada...It is the same product, just a slightly different name...

http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2009/credit_card_catch/main.html Other people who have been screwed in Canada by balance protector insurance...Read the Comment section, watch the video...CBC Marketplace...

http://www.moneyhighstreet.com/finance-news/all-to-stop-selling-single-premium-payment-protection-insurance-ppi/ Why payment protector insurance has been banned in England...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jan/30/payment-protection-insurance-ban Notice that insurance cannot be sold bundled with credit card activation anymore...

http://www.stikeman.com/cps/rde/xchg/se-en/hs.xsl/3812.htm Is there a possibility of a class action lawsuit against Assurant Solutions Canada, the underwriter for balance protection insurance on credit cards?
Assurant Solutions, also known as ABLAC, American Bankers Life Assurance company of Florida, & Canada Premier Life Assurance, were all owned by AIG Canada, who was bought by BMO Bank of Montreal on April 1, 2009...Combined, AIG CANADA, through various arms & names, underwrote for TD Canada trust, RBC, Sears, Capital One & CIBC, & possibly others I am not aware of...

  I myself (Sari Grove), am out $2,684.70 plus interest...(My husband, Joseph Grove is also on that account)...It appears there are thousands more like us, just from looking at comments on the CBC marketplace site in 2009 when they did the documentary on balance protection insurance, as well on Ellen Roseman's site's comment, the financial watchdog, rip off report.com reports, & various other online sources...

  I was concerned that if we pursued this in small claims court, that we might be hurting others who were similarly taken, but did not have the ability to defend themselves...I am concerned that if we get a refund, through all of our hard work, that others will not also get a refund...I am aware that once we get a refund, if we do, that we might psychologically let it all go by- but others may not have been successful...

  What do you think? Do you think we could have success in a class action pursuit? Not even sure if TD Insurance, the issuer, should be the one named, or perhaps BMO, because they now own the underwriter AIG Canada's holdings? Or just sue everybody in Canada who sold balance protector insurance in Canada since 2001, & force them to refund all monies taken from unsuspecting victims/customers...I myself, Sari Grove, am self-employed & do not qualify for any benefits...As such, the contract should be void abinitio...(& the contract rescinded...) But who am I to quote Latin?

Tell us what you think... Sari Grove [email protected] 416-924-9725 Toronto, Ontario, M5R3M6...(I am a self-employed visual artist...grovecanada.ca if you'd like to verify what I do...My husband too...)