Having cashed in on payment protection insurance, claims handling firms have switched their attention to your roof. The heading on a national newspaper advert from a claims management company (CMC) – "Mis-sold solar water heating?" – is the latest move by an industry of more than 3,000 claims handling firms looking for the next new thing after hoovering up huge profits from payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling. The ad, from Cheshire-based Consumer Reclaim, continues: "If you think you've been sold a Solar Hot Water Heating System by the exaggeration of its benefits, you could be entitled to claim back the full cost." Readers will remember that many high-selling-pressure firms were named and shamed here four or so years back for claiming far higher benefits from hot-water panels on a roof than were justified. And they charged consumers, who wanted to be "green", up to three times the fair cost of around £4,500 per installation. Consumer Reclaim states it is "currently handling claims" against a number of companies, including Smart Energy (UK), Ultimate Energy, Simplee Solar, Solar Direct UK, Solar Home Energy, Solsave and Solarsol UK. They all sold systems, and have now gone bust........Read more here: Mis-selling: PPI claims industry targets solar panels