UK Insurance with Ontario License

jmansr
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Joined: 01 Aug 2008
Posts: 1
Location: pontypool

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:13 am

 

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I was curious if anyone out there was living in the UK and managed to get insurance with their canadian drivers license?

I don't plan on being here for more then 4 months so I don't really want to go through the hassle of switching my license AND taking a manual car test.

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Steven
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Joined: 28 Sep 2007
Posts: 1637
Location: Calgary

Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:34 am

 

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I couldn't get UK insurance on my US licence when I moved to the UK. Had to get the licence changed. You can get it for other EU countries but outside the EU is tough.

The other problem I had was when I left, because the law changed a few years ago, because in Canada they want a list of any claims (your abstract) and in the UK they abolished it and it's all kept on a central register that only registered insurance agents can access, I had a hell of a job to get my insurance records. What people were doing was shopping around agents to make it look like their record wasn't as bad as it was, (i.e. use a bogus agent) so they required it all to be kept centrally. Because my record was partly before and partly after the change I ended up with this enormous pile of bits of paper, because my agent had changed underwriters several times without telling me.
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Steve.

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