Aviva protester handed injunction (From York Press)
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Aviva protester Paul Parvin handed injunction
9:40am Saturday 4th February 2012 in News
Paul Parvin
INSURANCE giant Aviva has taken out an injunction against a customer who staged a one-man protest with his digger at its office car park on York’s outskirts.
Armed police attended the Monks Cross offices last spring when self-employed plant hire operator Paul Parvin, of Sessay, near Thirsk, blocked the barriers to the site where 180 employees worked.
Mr Parvin, who was angry over the way his claim had been handled by Aviva since an articulated lorry hit and severely damaged his digger in January 2008, had previously protested by sitting in a deckchair with a placard for several hours near the entrance to another Aviva building in Rougier Street in the city centre.
Now Aviva has confirmed that, “regrettably,” it had had to take the step of obtaining an injunction against him “to avoid further business disruption.” A spokeswoman said the company believed it had done all it could for Mr Parvin. “Despite the FOS – Financial Ombudsman Services – backing our decision in relation to his case, Mr Parvin continued to protest at our premises in York and while we respect the right of individuals to protest peacefully, Mr Parvin’s protests were becoming increasingly disruptive to our business and employees,” she said.
“We have to put the welfare of our staff first and while we have made every effort to bring this to an amicable conclusion, regrettably we have now had to take the step of obtaining an injunction against Mr Parvin to avoid further business disruption.”
Mr Parvin, who had an engineering and motor insurance policy with Aviva, said the injunction, obtained at the High Court, prevented him going on the company’s property.
He intended to obey it, but planned to resume his demonstrations on public land, for example near the city-centre offices.
He claimed his digger protest had never stopped anyone entering or leaving the Monks Cross offices, and revealed that at one stage, he had started breaking the JCB into pieces and delivering it to Aviva’s other offices in York and protesting outside.
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ISeeEverything
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9:45am Sat 4 Feb 12
mickrick
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9:58am Sat 4 Feb 12
I like your spirit mate, its the sort of thing i would do.
Make them have it, hit them where it hurts.
C3PO=PCSO
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10:01am Sat 4 Feb 12
Silver
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10:20am Sat 4 Feb 12
bolero
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10:33am Sat 4 Feb 12
Stix187
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10:34am Sat 4 Feb 12
Hepworth
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11:18am Sat 4 Feb 12
Mullarkian
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11:40am Sat 4 Feb 12
This was due to the cycle to work mentality that prevails in York council.
To get to Monks X from the other side of the city is at least 2 bus journeys and can take over an hour. In a car that can be done in less than 30 minutes.
colette
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11:48am Sat 4 Feb 12
Presumably that is only driving time you are counting, Mullarkian - how about the time sat in traffic jams? :-) Although I agree about the cycling mentality!
Ghost of Oscar Deutsch
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1:11pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Rubbish..the digger was parked across the entrance and exit barrier and he threatened to ram any staff in cars who attempted to get past...
bolero
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1:25pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Back and Beyond
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1:38pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Good luck Paul, hope you eventually get justice.
Eric Bartholomew
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3:34pm Sat 4 Feb 12
I will never touch their products ever again after they left me well short on an endowment policy.
Jokers...
Casual_Reader
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3:46pm Sat 4 Feb 12
colette
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4:52pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Yorkiepud1
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5:39pm Sat 4 Feb 12
A lot of what ACTUALLY happened has been missed out. It was quite literally a case of this man spitting his dummy out because he didn't get what he wanted - which he wasn't even a bit entitled to. They did everything they could and more, and he was still childish enough to do stupid things like letting a helpless cockerel loose in the reception, which had to be picked up by the RSPCA!!
Shame on him, not Aviva.
bolero
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6:22pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Eric Bartholomew
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6:49pm Sat 4 Feb 12
Back and Beyond
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12:46pm Sun 5 Feb 12
foxtrotuniformcharliI think you may wish to check your claims on the FSA register. http://www.fsa.gov.u
ekilo wrote:
Aviva do NOT have more complaints than other companies. I believe that Standard Life and Zurich have far more as do the Phoenix group.
And as for the person with the endowment being short. I find this hilarious, as everyone knows that Endowments were terrible and would fall short at the end. This happened with other companies and not just Aviva. It's just a bit of bad luck.
As for saying that Aviva's policies are poor did you know that the top performing fund last year was an Aviva one beating 2600 others?
No, i don't work for Aviva but I think people on here need to get a grip and stop being so thick
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Unfortunately Aviva do seem to be the worst of a pretty bad bunch when it comes to complaints. Just because the FOS have adjudicated in favour of Aviva does not mean they are legally right, they are of course funded by these large corporations. I recently went the wrong side of a decision given by the FOS but went the Court route, the company concerned paid out + costs the day before case was due to be heard :)
GoodDoc
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2:15pm Sun 5 Feb 12
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Much as I hate Aviva, they are in the right here, and it's sad to see a man who is happy to take out his issues on other people. People have a right to get to work, and this muppet has been brought up to believe if you don't get your own way, stomp your little foot until everyone is disrupted. Sour grapes, he should be ashamed of himself. Aviva are rubbish, but the ombudsman is not. Grow up and move on with your life.
jadestars
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11:07am Mon 6 Feb 12
Yorkiepud1 wrote:Aviva have done nothing wrong at all, they did everything by the book so why the hell should this brainless fool be allowed to continue with his immature actions ..he didn't like it so he took a tantrum but instead of having the desired affect, he's made himself look like a complete numpty and the butt of several jokes to come, i expect!
I don't know how you can all say 'shame on Aviva' when you only know a tiny part of the story! A lot of what ACTUALLY happened has been missed out. It was quite literally a case of this man spitting his dummy out because he didn't get what he wanted - which he wasn't even a bit entitled to. They did everything they could and more, and he was still childish enough to do stupid things like letting a helpless cockerel loose in the reception, which had to be picked up by the RSPCA!! Shame on him, not Aviva.
jadestars
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11:08am Mon 6 Feb 12
Yorkiepud1 wrote:i didnt mean to quote you in my last comment ... totally agree with you though :)
I don't know how you can all say 'shame on Aviva' when you only know a tiny part of the story! A lot of what ACTUALLY happened has been missed out. It was quite literally a case of this man spitting his dummy out because he didn't get what he wanted - which he wasn't even a bit entitled to. They did everything they could and more, and he was still childish enough to do stupid things like letting a helpless cockerel loose in the reception, which had to be picked up by the RSPCA!! Shame on him, not Aviva.
Yorkiepud1
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12:29pm Mon 6 Feb 12
And the actions made by Mr Parvin were completely out of order. The protesting outside with the placards, fine....but the cockerel and defacing the bar walls? Completely childish. They did right getting an injuction, because if he'swilling to deface the bar walls and set live animals inside the building, what else would he be capable of?!
They did what they had to do, and that is to protect their employee's and their company. If YOU all worked for Aviva, I'm sure you'd be pleased that your company was so willing to keep you safe!
Chrido81
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12:52pm Mon 6 Feb 12
jojo8585
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1:19pm Mon 6 Feb 12
gav10
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2:21pm Mon 6 Feb 12
The park and ride is fine if you live in York - no bus service at all in my direction, unless you want to go back into York. I do cycle in the summer though.
akuma
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2:28pm Mon 6 Feb 12
If they reprinted the statement from the police in the orginal story you'd see that the the Armed Response Unit was sent simply because it was the closest unit.
While those police are "also armed" they are fully capable and required to respond to regular call outs too. At no point in time did they ever present there weapons as they were not required.
Press, your not The Sun, so stop trying to be!
C3PO=PCSO
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7:22pm Mon 6 Feb 12
akuma wrote:On the contrary....The armed response unit has previous with being called to rogue diggers ramming (or threatening to ram) vehicles.....there was an incident a few years ago on the A19 near Selby where they tried to shoot a JCB tyres out after it rammed a cop car.
I wish the The Press would stop trying to jazz up the story by stating "Armed Police"
If they reprinted the statement from the police in the orginal story you'd see that the the Armed Response Unit was sent simply because it was the closest unit.
While those police are "also armed" they are fully capable and required to respond to regular call outs too. At no point in time did they ever present there weapons as they were not required.
Press, your not The Sun, so stop trying to be!
Suppose it makes a difference to amchine gunning horses on the A64.
bolero
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12:36pm Tue 7 Feb 12
MarkyMarkMark
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2:30pm Tue 7 Feb 12
bolero wrote:Relevance being?
So gav10 doesn't deny that he works for Aviva then.
Incdentally, there's no good cycle route from town going beyond the Malton Rd turnoff to the P&R site either - if you wanted to cycle to the Aviva offices you'd need to either take your life in your hands and go up that little strip of dual carriageway, or go the (quite a lot longer) way round and come up past the P&R, and cut back to the main shopping centre and follow that stupid little cycle track around the inside of it - then get dumped onto the wrong side of a mini-roundabout. who says CoYC has a cycling mentality? (unless you mean one where the cogs slip a bit too often?!)
(all of which has no relevance to the original topic!)
bolero
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3:22pm Tue 7 Feb 12
bolero
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2:21pm Wed 8 Feb 12
roskoboskovic says...
9:45am Sat 4 Feb 12