The Open and Direct review is not going to be the most exciting review, I mean how can you be funny…read moreor cool writing about an Insurance Brokers? Open and Direct offer competitive insurance for you home, car, holiday and pet. Most of my family have something of theirs insured by Open and Direct and they tell me that they are pretty good at beating other insurance companies quotes. This branch of Open and Direct is in Newtownards and is in a rather nice building giving this branch a touch of class. The building it is housed in what used to be Newtownards branch of the Northern Bank. I hope that was at very least useful.

Priced cheaply but costly if you have a claim. They use a third party why do their best not to pay…read moreout or to pay as little as possible. The claims office they use are MIS and my experience their staff are not in the least bit interested in expediting your claim. Their job seems to be to find a way out of the claim.

After three weeks they canceled my insurance. The reason: because no bonus claims is not my name…read more(the previous insurance I had on my partner's name, but my name is also specified, I being the second driver, I did not have claims). They never gave me any money back. they also charged me for canceling the insurance. Then they asked me for more money to renew my insurance. I do not recommend.

My previous insurance provider liberty insurance no longer provides insurance in ni and they had…read morepassed my details on to Hughes which is ok, my quote from them though wasn't. £1200 for a year compared to £390 last year with liberty. I rang around five brokers and non could beat an online quote from Tesco. I was disappointed at not buying insurance from a local broker but I have to go to whoever is cheapest. £58 deposit and £28 a month is better than Hughes could offer. Definitely worth ringing around and trying online quotes.