{"id":13892,"date":"2023-04-16T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:10:35","slug":"how-to-cancel-a-policy-by-returning-the-receipt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/blog\/de-que-forma-anular-una-poliza-se-puede-devolviendo-el-recibo\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I cancel a policy and can I return the receipt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we talk about how to change insurance companies when a policy expires. Whether it is a <a href=\"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/individuals\/insurance-solutions-for-individuals\/health-insurance\/\">health insurance<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/individuals\/insurance-solutions-for-individuals\/car-insurance\/\">car insurance<\/a> o <a href=\"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/individuals\/insurance-solutions-for-individuals\/household-insurance\/\">household insurance<\/a>, Let's see what steps to take to do it correctly.<\/p>\n<h2>The Insurance Contract Act on the return of the receipt<\/h2>\n<p>Months ago, we already launched an article in which we spoke about the <a href=\"\/en\/blog\/how-to-cancel-an-insurance-policy\/\">ways to cancel insurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As we have seen, Article 22.2 of the law states:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201c... may object to the extension of the contract by giving written notice to the other party at least one month before the end of the current insurance period ...\u201d.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In other words, that the <strong>Taker<\/strong> of the policy must communicate the cancellation <strong>At least one month in advance<\/strong>\u00a0of the moment in which the insurance is renewed. If it can be with a few days left, the better, but if there is less than a month left, the insurer will claim that the cancellation is out of time and will be able to demand payment of the renewal premium.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5288\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/anular-poliza-seguro.jpg\" alt=\"return receipt for car insurance\" width=\"949\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Exceptions to the rule for cancelling an insurance policy<\/h2>\n<p>Insurance is a contract, and as such, if one of the parties, in this case the <strong>insurance company substantially modifies the conditions<\/strong> of the contract:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Either because <em>reduces coverage<\/em> without having asked for it (e.g.: they want to put an excess on the All Risks insurance).<\/li>\n<li>Or because you<em> increases the price<\/em> of the policy a 20%, e.g.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At that point, the client, the insured, <strong>can justify non-renewal<\/strong> The insurance company is \u201cinviting\u201d you to leave the policy, even if it is out of time, as it is the insurance company that is \"inviting\" you to leave.<\/p>\n<h2>The register of defaulters and the return of insurance bills<\/h2>\n<p>It is very important to us that the customer knows, that <strong>if you return the receipt without cancelling the policy on time you risk<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Have the insurance company claim the renewal fee from you (by means of an order for payment procedure).<\/li>\n<li>That, even if you do not claim it, the policyholder's DNI may appear in the <strong>debt collection files<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This last point is very dangerous, since in the future you may want to ask for a loan or contract something, and if you appear in one of these registers there is a risk that you will not be granted it for that reason. Large companies buy these files and with the cross-referencing of data that exists today, we believe that this is a high risk.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions and want us to help you, <strong>contact us<\/strong> and we will be happy to do so. From <a href=\"\/en\/\"><strong>PIB Group Iberia and Investment<\/strong><\/a> We try to offer a friendly service to resolve these issues as best as possible.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We look at the deadline, the means and who must cancel the insurance in order for it to be valid with the company.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[182],"class_list":["post-13892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-particulares","tag-comunidades-de-vecinos"],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pibgroupiberia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}