i had an accident in my car last december my insurers gave

Hi,
Thank you for your question and welcome.
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Financial institutions (especially insurance companies) have an obligation to treat you fairly. Clearly by giving you misleading information they are not treating you fairly.
What I recommend you do is the following - write/email them and say that you are clearly being given misleading information. Say that you want them to immediately confirm that they will continue to insure you, because you would like to escalate this as a complaint - say that you will agree as a matter of goodwill to explore whether it is possible to obtain an engineers reports but will require at least 15 working days (I presume that is enough?).
Say to them that if they do not treat your complaint fairly and you do not receive a satisfactory response then you reserve the right to take the dispute to the Financial Ombudsman.
If they still refuse to insure you, you will have to mitigate your position and seek insurance else where, but I would then immediately go and complain to the FoS www.financial-ombudsman.org.uk . The FoS has the power to sanction the insurer and award compensation if appropriate.
Kind regards
AJ