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State Farm to shutter Tampa operations center, slash dozens of jobs
Tampa Bay Business Journal ^ | October 1, 2018 | Ashley Gurbal Kritzer

Posted on 10/04/2018 6:45:56 AM PDT by 4Runner

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. plans to permanently close its Tampa operations center, cutting 59 jobs in the process.

The insurer notified the state Department of Economic Opportunity on Sept. 27 of its plans. It will close the Tampa center and a portion of its Jacksonville operations center, according to the letter to the DEO. The Jacksonville closure will affect 100 jobs.

The Tampa jobs affected include auto claims representatives, claim processors, claim service assistants and more.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: insurance; statefarm; tampa
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No explanation given. All I know is, vehicle traffic volume has increased exponentially over the past six months in Tampa and there are a lot of uninsured drivers in the Tampa Bay area and you don't see sheriff deputies pulling over errant motorists (if that's what you can call them).
1 posted on 10/04/2018 6:45:56 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

With third world people you get third world problems.


2 posted on 10/04/2018 6:47:31 AM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: 4Runner

No explanation given.

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Maybe they are having trouble competing with the lizard and the crazy lady.


3 posted on 10/04/2018 6:50:11 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: 4Runner

State Farm has been very quietly relocating company operations to the Dallas-Fort Worth area for several years.


4 posted on 10/04/2018 6:50:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 4Runner

State Farm has been consolidating its locations all around the country and shedding a number of employees per media sources.


5 posted on 10/04/2018 6:50:43 AM PDT by ealgeone (SCRIPTURE DOES NOT CHANGE!)
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To: dljordan

“With third world people you get third world problems.”
I’m thinking you’re zeroing in on the cause.


6 posted on 10/04/2018 6:51:09 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: 4Runner

I feel bad for Jake.


7 posted on 10/04/2018 6:54:28 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year)
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To: 4Runner

State Farm is a scam. They had us paying for a fire place that doesn’t exist and put our 16 year old on my new car all to charge us more. They never would pay off on a claim. They pulled the same with our relatives.


8 posted on 10/04/2018 6:54:46 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: 4Runner

Okay, jobs outsourced? Did they train their offshore replacements.


9 posted on 10/04/2018 6:59:00 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Moonman62

Liberty Insurance runs a lot of TV ads in this market, you know, the ones with obviously Hispanic dance music playing in the background, while some smart-alecky minority chick tells you it isn’t your fault you got into a fender-bender and your stupid insurance provider upped your rates. Don’t they know no one is perfect?? You can just visualize all the wise Latinas jumping up and gyrating to the beat and changing their carriers on their ever-present cell phones. Some things are just too easy and simple to do these days.


10 posted on 10/04/2018 6:59:31 AM PDT by 4Runner
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To: 4Runner

State Farm is consolidating all back office operations in 3 regional operations centers in Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix. This looks to be like fallout from that ongoing initiative. State Farm had over 100 back office operations like this that they are consolidating. Anyone paying attention saw this coming.


11 posted on 10/04/2018 6:59:53 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Da Coyote

Yep....that’s what you get after years and years of fraudulent claims after a rain storm....


12 posted on 10/04/2018 7:11:42 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Moonman62

Just like ALLSTATE pulled out of Florida Homeowners Insurance Market in ‘06 or so.

For my entire life we had ALLSTATE Insurance for everything, automobile, home, etc. for over 30 years.

They cancelled my homeowners Insurance and would not renew. Never made a claim for anything. They left us having to go with Universal crap insurance.

When auto insurance renewal came around, I cancelled.

Will not ever have ALLSTATE insurance of any kind again and tell everyone why..................


13 posted on 10/04/2018 7:16:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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State Farm has been consolidating its locations all around the country and shedding a number of employees per media sources.

Yep, they had a HUGE new campus in Malta, NY - people have been losing jobs like crazy there.

14 posted on 10/04/2018 7:18:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: bgill

Some years ago I had a couple of lawyer friends who specialized in insurance work. The company was frequently referred to as “Snake Farm”.


15 posted on 10/04/2018 7:19:38 AM PDT by VietVet876
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... and put our 16 year old on my new car all to charge us more.

Not to be defending State Farm, but all insurance companies do this. Allstate did when our daughter turned 16 and got her license. They assume that every licensed driver in a home has access to all automobiles. A neighbor of ours would not let his 16 year old son get a license until he turned 18 and got his own........................

16 posted on 10/04/2018 7:20:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (Q............PREPARE FOR 'SKY IS FALLING' WEEK...........................)
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To: FreedomPoster

State Farm won’t publicly state this, but they want to get the heck out of Illinois before a tsunami of new taxes hit from that debt-ridden state.


17 posted on 10/04/2018 7:22:59 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: 4Runner

I was a State Farm customer for over thirty years. Never filed a claim either for homeowners or automobile. Then a few years ago they started jacking up my rates as if trying to get me to stop being a customer. It worked. I live in Florida and am no longer a State Farm customer.


18 posted on 10/04/2018 7:23:54 AM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: Red Badger

I tried to get Allstate homeowners in Florida, too. Couldn’t do it, although they are more than happy to insure my car. Ended up with St John’s. I suppose it’s because Florida is so hurricane-happy, they can’t afford to insure us.


19 posted on 10/04/2018 7:27:50 AM PDT by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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There is this sick thing that happens where if you go thirty years without a claim, their actuarial tables start flagging you as due for one, so they drop you.

I have read insurance blogs which advise you to make some small homeowners claim every ten years or so to avoid this.


20 posted on 10/04/2018 7:30:41 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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