by Guest » Tue Mar 04, 2008 02:39 pm
Does anyone have any experience working with Safeco? What were the pros and cons? I'd love to hear your thoughts. I'm most interested in how they treat their independent agents, but I'd appreciate anything you can add.
Thanks!
Leonard
Thanks!
Leonard
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:10 pm Post Subject: Its all about greed
Moderator, I work in the auto body industrie, and I will tell you we work with every insurance company out there.After reading all the stuff between you and Mike, I will tell you Mike is more on the money about what and how SOME adjusters and companies do business with body shops!! You as a customer will always be treated better than the shop gets treated. We are told day in and day out what we will have to accept to repair the vehical to its prior loss condition. I will tell you there are a lot of items body shops have to eat,example our body shop supplies(i.e tape sandpaper, fillers ect) 99.9% of insurance companies will not pay for that.Well someone had to.I again will say I have to side with Mike and his views.The adjuster is there to save the company money, usually at the shops expense!
Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 10:55 pm Post Subject:
After reading all the stuff between you and Mike,
ah we just do these tread wars to entertain the masses.. :wink: actually this tread is over a year old...about what and how SOME adjusters and companies do business with body shops!!
I've always maintained, there are good and bad in both, crappy adjusters, crappy shops, crappy companies...but never ever ever are ''all'' of them crappy.. :wink:You as a customer will always be treated better than the shop gets treated.
I'm not real clear on what that statement means...are you saying that the vehicle owner will always be treated better by whom? The insurance adjuster, and company, than the shop is treated by the same?We are told day in and day out what we will have to accept to repair the vehical to its prior loss condition.
Do you accept that if it's not all inclusive? If you do why? I guess what I'm asking is, if you are repairing vehicles and making no profit, why would you do that? How can you stay in business that way?The adjuster is there to save the company money,
agreed..usually at the shops expense!
nope, don't agree...not saying it doesn't happen...just saying it shouldn't...I don't think any shop I work with or have worked with over the past 20 plus years would say that I got in their pocket..Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:39 pm Post Subject:
That thread occured during our post honeymoon period, the therapists and counselors have us speaking amicably to each other these days. However we still have our differences of opinions and we just agree to disagree more often than not these days. Too much energy is expended negatively to help anybody with an issue if we fight all the time. And that goes for Cousin T as well. We just like to push each others buttons and we're definately going to have differences of opinions due to our personal perspectives in my opinion. Right dear?
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:51 pm Post Subject:
That thread occured during our post honeymoon period, the therapists and counselors have us speaking amicably to each other these days.
:lol: :lol: :lol: Oh my gosh Mike, you nearly made me spit my coffee on the key board!Right dear ?
Yes, snookie, you did just fine.. :wink: Oh Mike that therapist was worth their weight in gold... :wink:Of course, we have differing opinions about certain or particular aspects of the biz/industry...That being said, we DO have mutal respect for each other, and that persons opinion, and most certainly their right to voice that opinion. I like to think that we have each helped the other to see different points of view, and maybe look at something a little differently. There are some aspects that we will never agree on...but we've come to the realization that is ok too...At the end of the day...this board is meant to assist the poster in anyway we can. That's hard to accomplish if there is constant bickering, no harm in a good old thread war, as long as it stays civil...when we stray from that, it isn't helping anyone..
As an example, I (personally) don't believe in DV...(unless there is a crappy repair done, and then who's fault is that? :wink: before you say it Mike, yes if the crappy repair came from a DRP it's equally the carriers duty to make it right)...Mike is all for it...Just because I don't think it's 'real' until the vehicle is sold, doesn't mean that DV claims aren't paid daily...When someone wants information on 'how' to collect on a DV claim...I send Mike a note, asking him to provide that information to the person requesting that information...again, I'm against it, and while I can still voice that opinion, I'm in no way going to try and cripple the person asking the question, by not at least trying to give him/her the information they want...which is how to collect...
How'd I do...sugar plum? :wink:
Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 02:03 pm Post Subject:
You did yourself realllllll good thar, sweety pie. By the way, the therapist is calling and your insurance company claimed they didn't owe your portion of the counseling bill because it was work related stress. They claim you should file a workman's comp claim. :lol: And since I can't prove the relationship has diminished in value, I can't collect for that either.
Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 11:20 am Post Subject:
was work related stress. They claim you should file a workman's comp claim.
:lol: :roll: :wink:And since I can't prove the relationship has diminished in value, I can't collect for that either.
Well you just wait around awhile, the courts are busy on that topic..You should be able to collect given all the used parts I have zero a/m, but many many used.. :wink:Don't think there's any question that our relationships value has increased, rather than diminished....less fun for the readers maybe? :wink:
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 08:24 pm Post Subject: Mike is right
It's been some years, but I had a claim against my insurance company for a car that was lost due to a fire. They offered me a fraction of the car's value and would not budge. It went on for months. They were counting on me needing the money to get another vehicle. In the end they forced my hand by sending me a letter threatening that if I do not settle they will charge me storage fees for the car - retroactively. I settled, but that experience thought me a very valuable lesson about insurance companies.
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