Originally Posted by Tuftus

I'm with Russ on this one. I bought a car a month ago, on a Saturday, part exchanging my old car.

Whilst the paperwork was being put through, I phoned my broker and got the policy amended with the new details. So as far as I was concerned the vehicle and myself were insured. Needless to say, I also had to put some fuel in the car to get us home.

It was not until Wednesday the following week that the vehicle showed up as being insured on Askmid.

In principal, it's a good idea, in practice however not so good for my example. Unless the insurance industry can pull some fingers out to speed up the updating of the database that is.