Has anyone else come across an insurance company adjusting its policy expiry time to its advantage? Last year our NRMA home buildings policy was renewed to 1159pm 31 January 2025. This year the renewal notice says that if renewed the policy will expire at 12am 31 January 2026. It seems to me that NRMA (IAG) has just given itself a once off one day cut in coverage - 364 days instead of 365. Or put another way, we are paying twice for coverage on 31 January 2025. As the premium is well over $2k, in addition to other hefty price hikes (27% for us), NRMA seems to have helped itself to about $7 - not significant for one policy holder, but quite an earner if all their customers are paying it.
Changed NRMA Policy Renewal Time Has Reduced Coverage by a Day
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2024 was a leap year; I wonder if that affected it.
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Winner winner, chicken dinner!
Policy is for 365 days only ;)
Must be shrinkflation.
They were hoping you wouldn't notice.lol… yeah, ok, champ.
I'd suggest previously they were covering 366 days. If it's a one year policy the right dates of coverage would be 1st Feb 2025 to 31st January 2026 (which is what you've indicated).
I have noticed some of my own policies as you've described… Where the start and end days is the same calendar date (except the year) - and I've always believed this to be wrong but of course not going to complain because it's in my favour.
It might not work with home insurance but if I'm not going to use my car for a few days then I will buy a new policy a few days after the old one expires.
No it is not a leap year /366 days thing; last year's contract renewal said it started at 1159pm 31 January 2024 and expired at 1159pm 31Jan2025. This year's renewal offer says the contract starts at 12am 31Jan 2025 and expires at 12am 31Jan2026. So this year's contract starts one day (minus one minute) before the old contract expires. Who knows what next year's renewal offer will say.
Just noticed that NRMA car policies renewed last year also switched from 1159pm to 12am on the same date with same consequence of one less day of cover as the home buildings policy.My renewal is up in a couple of months, so appreciate it if you take this further. Hopefully fixed for me 😆
Try this https://www.nrma.com.au/contact-us and let and keep us update :)