What is the insurance excess?
Every Onto subscription comes with a standard excess of £1000 (£500 for Windscreen/Glass). If you want to reduce your excess, you can add one of our Reduced Damage Excess bolt-ons.
Not sure what excess means?
It’s simply a pre-agreed amount that we charge if you make an insurance claim. We do this because liability can’t always be determined at the initial reporting stage, and we need to safeguard against any claim that may later be deemed a ‘fault’ claim.
It will be partly or fully credited to the subscriber's account in either of the following situations:
- It’s determined that this is a non-fault claim.
- The claim cost is less than your excess.
What is a 'non-fault' claim?
A 'non-fault' claim is a claim where one of the following is true:
- The claim has not led to Onto and/or an insurer acting on Onto's behalf making any payments.
- All payments made by Onto and/or an insurer acting on Onto's behalf have been recovered from a third party and/or their insurer.
Therefore if you're in a vehicle collision and the other driver accepts the blame, and their insurer pays out for any damage, it is a 'non-fault' claim.
What is a 'fault' claim?
Any other claim is a 'fault' claim, meaning that our insurer has had to pay out on it.
Please note that a 'fault' claim and actually being to blame aren't the same thing. Your car could be damaged in a way outside your control, but if our insurer has to pay out, it is still a 'fault' claim.
That means the following are not sufficient reasons for a claim to be 'non-fault':
- The claim is not caused by you or your actions.
- You feel (rightly or wrongly) the claim was unavoidable. For example, if another car hits your car while it's parked on the street, and the other driver drives off without leaving their details, your claim would be a 'fault' claim.