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.
With third world people you get third world problems.
No explanation given.
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Maybe they are having trouble competing with the lizard and the crazy lady.
State Farm has been very quietly relocating company operations to the Dallas-Fort Worth area for several years.
State Farm has been consolidating its locations all around the country and shedding a number of employees per media sources.
“With third world people you get third world problems.”
I’m thinking you’re zeroing in on the cause.
I feel bad for Jake.
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.
Okay, jobs outsourced? Did they train their offshore replacements.
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.
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.
Yep....thats what you get after years and years of fraudulent claims after a rain storm....
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..................
Yep, they had a HUGE new campus in Malta, NY - people have been losing jobs like crazy there.
Some years ago I had a couple of lawyer friends who specialized in insurance work. The company was frequently referred to as “Snake Farm”.
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........................
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.
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.
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.
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.
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