Progressive Insurance is a disgrace and you MUST dump their insurance ASAP if you still have it.
Not only are they despicable in their business practices but they are huge Obama supporters and donors.
If this sad story doesn’t convince one to drop or give progressive a wide berth, consider the imagery....
Flo (enjoy her commercials) is talking to society.....all of society hawking “insurance.” This hawking is made possible by her announcement taking over every screen in every scene.
The “1984” and “Big Brother” imagery is not lost, and the little device they are pitching (hooks into the OBDC port) and shoots updates directly to the company servers is scary indeed. There is no privacy, acceleration, braking, speed, and a host of other data are all available to the company. like to brake late into and accelerate out of corners? Hard on the accelerator? Have a fender bender? a “bad” record of breaking overlaid onto a GPS map, and don’t expect much in the way of coverage....
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2 + 2 = 5!
A manager at their claims office even had the nerve to ask me if my daughter was listed as a driver on my policy through another company! She was trying to intimidate me by hinting that she might notify my insurance company that my daughter was driving my car. I then advised her that since my daughter doesn't live with me and was over 18, she doesn't need to be on my policy. Bottom line, Progressive and its employees are evil!
Just saw this on The Blaze.
Peter Lewis is a Soros type. That’s all that needs to be said. What else would you expect from “progressive” insurance.
My Ins. agent gave me a Progressive policy for my motorcycle. I canceled it immediately.
My future Son In-law was insured with Progressive and one Sunday morning he gets a text on his phone that Progressive was canceling his insurance as of the previous Friday.
He immediately contacted another Ins company and actually got a much lower rate. The policy was in force the very next day.
My future SIL had not received a ticket, nor had he been in an accident.
Thanks to Progressive’s retro active cancellation of his policy, NY slapped him $75 for driving without insurance from Friday to Sunday.
Seems the communists at Progressive and in my NY State government have a nice little scam going on to increase revenue.
A lot of crony capitalism going on in our government.
Turns out the comedian was wrong, Progressive did not pay for a lawyer to represent the other person in the accident, and they’re honoring the verdict of the case.
I would never do business with Progressive. First, I hate the word “Progressive”. Next, I can’t stand their stupid commercials. And I can’t stand Flo. Any company whose commercials are based on identify or feelings rather than stated facts does not have anything worthwhile to say about their product anyway; that’s most of them.
I’m changing to someone else as we speak and I really don’t care if it’s higher. Progressive blows.
Most insurance companies play that game knowing their wallets are bigger than yours in hiring lawyers. I went round and round with State Farm for years for never paying off on two small claims, adding on or forgetting to add on items to my policy that just happened to fall in their favor and for putting the teens onto the higher priced vehicle. After taking over my grandparents’ estate, I found out they’d been charged for ridiculous items such as a non-existant fireplace. State Farm laughed, yes literally laughed, but wouldn’t reimurse us.
Sorry for your sister.
Finally dropped it in June. Went with Grange and saved 50%. Went from $129.00 a month to $67.00 with the same coverage. Can’t beat that!
The name of the company, plus freakin’ FLO (the most irritating woman on TV) are good enough reasons to stay the heck away from them.
I ran over something that fell from the back of a truck and it exploded under the right front end of my wife's van. it messed up the transmission and the right front axle/bearings.
The Mechanic told the agent that he should just right it off since the front end was warped and that even the transmission mounts were messed up.
The Progressive agent never told me any of this just that they were going to put in a new transmission and fix the axle.
I tried six (6) times to meet with him about the van and he always found something that interfered with the time.
I found out later that he had them rebuild the transmission and try to straighten the front end.
I ended up putting in two whole new axles before I got rid of the truck.
I have told everyone I can not to buy Progressive ever!
They are the biggest con artist out there!
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I was rear-ended by a young driver on a busy Friday afternoon rush hour. We were both insured by state Farm. I started running into trouble right away. I only asked $600 for my wrecked 20-year-old Valiant, which had a good body and a working a/c. State Farm offered $100. I went to court with a written estimate from a used parts dealer for the engine of $600.
The judge asked the SF lawyers what was their defense... they had none and the judge gave me $900 plus I got to keep the car.
Then I had to go back to court because they refused to acknowledge my lost wages claim; SF used the same lawyers and they lost that case. SF fired those attorneys.
My medical bills for 'whiplash' were mounting. I compulsively kept accurate records for well over two years. The judge told me that I would need a lawyer from that point on. So we sued for medical, damages, personal loss, etc. SF surrendered the young guy's policy, so we collected the full amount [and the atty got 1/3.] However my earlier judgments in court for my wrecked car and lost wages remained unpaid for some months. State law allows the insurance co. 30 days to satisfy court judgments.
I took a notarized copy of my court judgment and sent it to the state insurance commissioner [Bill Nelson!!!] and asked him to seize their bond and satisfy my judgment. He never even responded to my letter. I was told by a lawyer that in order to collect my judgment I could seize properly identified property up to the value of my judgment. I went to the huge 5-storey SF office building here in Orlando and started writing down inventory numbers of the property I intended to ask the sheriff to seize. A clerk asked me what I was doing, and when I told her she got on the phone immediately with the 'upstairs'. Within 15 minutes some exec came down with a check for the proper amount... think they didn't know who I was?
As in your case, I had good coverage over and above what the other guy was insured for [he had multiple accidents and was only 19 years old.] SF told me plainly that their duty was to defend the other guy against me. I had over 17 years of safe driving. How's that for customer loyalty? I understand in one sense that he was not going to sue me, but still SF stonewalled every claim that I made.
The clincher was two years after we settled. I got a $13,000 bill from the hospital - unpaid. I had $30,000 in medical coverage with SF for each incident. [Of course I had long since dropped SF before they screwed me and put me in a high risk pool.]
Since we had settled the accident claim the medical bills came under breach of contract. My lawyer sued for the medical and got it plus whatever fee he charged... I didn't get anything from that one except my med bills paid.
I never received one dollar from SF that I did not sue for... and after my first suits I had to threaten to seize property in order to get my legal just deserts. As in the settlement of the hospital bill, SF paid much more in the case of each claim than if they had honorably - and legally - dealt with me.
Insurance companies are no real friend of mine. Oh, BTW, while I waited for my first court judgments to be paid I sprayed on the side of my wrecked Valiant: STATE FARM WON'T PAY! I actually saw SF agents discussing my car at one location. hee hee
I suppose the insurance co's figure that most people will get angry and blow their case out of frustration; when one loses their temper in important deals they lose the argument. I am glad I was equal to the task with SF.
