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He was left fuming after he and his wife were repeatedly and wrongly informed they had been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance.
A dad-of-three who was bombarded with nearly 100 cold calls in two months is one of the first people to successfully claim compensation from a PPI firm. Steve Higgins, 38, was left fuming after he and wife Gemma, 27, were repeatedly and wrongly informed they had been mis-sold Payment Protection Insurance.
Despite telling Synergy Leads Ltd he was not eligible for a payout, he was called 94 times between October and November last year. He filed a small claims application and invoiced the firm £10 per call. When the company did not respond he then made a claim for a default judgment at Northampton county court. Synergy Leads Ltd was last week ordered to pay him £940 for the calls, plus £60 costs for making the claim application. Mr Higgins, of Nottingham, said: “When I tried to call them I was just spoken too very rudely and they would even hang up.....Read more here
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