Car insurance: Progressive Insurance is the worst company in the game.
Monday, 2. March 2009, 00:12:58
So last year, three months after purchasing a new car that meant the world to me because of how hard I had worked in my life to purchase my very first brand spankin' new car I was almost killed in it. It was a life changing experience, I haven't been the same since then. I won't go into the whole story behing the accident because I posted about it last year after it happened, you can check out the story with pics HERE.
I am posting this post here because I made a promise to an insurance agent over at progressive insurance. I know he was suprised when I made the promise to him and frankly it left him speechless. It was pretty priceless to see the look on his face when I promised that I would blog about how horseshit the company that he represents is. I told him that I would for certain put information about how shallow his company is in time of need, when a person is at their lowest because their client was beyond responsible for a situation that nearly killed someone.
Let me tell you a little story. So as it were, a day or so after my car accident I had a guy from Progressive insurance call me up and tell me he needed to meet with me and go over some paperwork and discuss some things. I though great, someone is going to give me a helping hand when I need it most, I was sorely mistaken. Sure we talked about paperwork and that sort of stuff and it was towards the end of the conversation I realized how shallow not only this guy is but the company itself. He told me that progressive would give me $100 right there on the spot. I am sure someone with lesser knowledge of life in general may have picked up their pen and signed right there on the spot. But I knew that if I signed the paperwork and took the money that I would get nothing more than $100 to compensate me for someone's life changing mistake.
Now let me stop this right here. I didn't care about getting money. I would have been more excited had someone from Progressive come over to my house and told me how sorry they were for insuring a moron and putting him on the road and then gave me a hug. But that's not the case. Nobody in life cares a whole lot. Certainly not money hungry insurance companies.
So anyhow. I spoke to this joker over the course of a handful of weeks asking when they were going to get me compensation for therapy I would like to go to but wouldn't be able to afford, or when they were going to put a new car in my driveway. They always just told me they couldn't do that. My insurance company, who I think sucks as well but not nearly as much as progressive, couldn't believe how I was being treated. My insurance company told me that if things were the other way around they would have compensated me for much more to admit they caused a problem. Progressive apparently thinks that they can't do any wrong. Eventually it got to a point that I told the guy from Progressive that I was tired of receiving calls from his company and it certainly didn't help me to recover if they were gong to continue to call me and doscuss the accident. He has the balls to ask me what it would take to get things resolved. I got of fthe phone came up with a number that I felt may ease me getting into a new car, that number was $2500. Progressive got back to me real quick with the only offer they could apparently swing, keep in mind this is an insurance company they reaps money from people every day. Their offer... $1000. I told him fine, I'll come down. I went into the room and he explained a couple things at which point I made my promise to him. I told him I would write this blog entry and tell people how shady his company is and it would be stuck online for quite sometime with negative press. He went silent had me sign a paper and handed me the check. The end.
I almost got killed. Skewered by a steel beam, a beam that was knocked off a bridge by the client of progressive. I don't function the same as I used to, I never will. Progressive guy couldn't care less, progressive the company couldn't give a shit. Each day they are too worried about driving around in their expensive advertisement SUVs with more intention on making money than ever helping anyone.
Progressive, your client ruined my life.
I am posting this post here because I made a promise to an insurance agent over at progressive insurance. I know he was suprised when I made the promise to him and frankly it left him speechless. It was pretty priceless to see the look on his face when I promised that I would blog about how horseshit the company that he represents is. I told him that I would for certain put information about how shallow his company is in time of need, when a person is at their lowest because their client was beyond responsible for a situation that nearly killed someone.
Let me tell you a little story. So as it were, a day or so after my car accident I had a guy from Progressive insurance call me up and tell me he needed to meet with me and go over some paperwork and discuss some things. I though great, someone is going to give me a helping hand when I need it most, I was sorely mistaken. Sure we talked about paperwork and that sort of stuff and it was towards the end of the conversation I realized how shallow not only this guy is but the company itself. He told me that progressive would give me $100 right there on the spot. I am sure someone with lesser knowledge of life in general may have picked up their pen and signed right there on the spot. But I knew that if I signed the paperwork and took the money that I would get nothing more than $100 to compensate me for someone's life changing mistake.
Now let me stop this right here. I didn't care about getting money. I would have been more excited had someone from Progressive come over to my house and told me how sorry they were for insuring a moron and putting him on the road and then gave me a hug. But that's not the case. Nobody in life cares a whole lot. Certainly not money hungry insurance companies.
So anyhow. I spoke to this joker over the course of a handful of weeks asking when they were going to get me compensation for therapy I would like to go to but wouldn't be able to afford, or when they were going to put a new car in my driveway. They always just told me they couldn't do that. My insurance company, who I think sucks as well but not nearly as much as progressive, couldn't believe how I was being treated. My insurance company told me that if things were the other way around they would have compensated me for much more to admit they caused a problem. Progressive apparently thinks that they can't do any wrong. Eventually it got to a point that I told the guy from Progressive that I was tired of receiving calls from his company and it certainly didn't help me to recover if they were gong to continue to call me and doscuss the accident. He has the balls to ask me what it would take to get things resolved. I got of fthe phone came up with a number that I felt may ease me getting into a new car, that number was $2500. Progressive got back to me real quick with the only offer they could apparently swing, keep in mind this is an insurance company they reaps money from people every day. Their offer... $1000. I told him fine, I'll come down. I went into the room and he explained a couple things at which point I made my promise to him. I told him I would write this blog entry and tell people how shady his company is and it would be stuck online for quite sometime with negative press. He went silent had me sign a paper and handed me the check. The end.
I almost got killed. Skewered by a steel beam, a beam that was knocked off a bridge by the client of progressive. I don't function the same as I used to, I never will. Progressive guy couldn't care less, progressive the company couldn't give a shit. Each day they are too worried about driving around in their expensive advertisement SUVs with more intention on making money than ever helping anyone.
Progressive, your client ruined my life.
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