Posted On: February 11, 2006, 7:47 pm CST

Posted By: TL

Farmers sucks, IS WHAT YOU FAIL TO UNDERSTAND. I was with Farmers for 22 years. I'm still involved in claims; I work for a law firm on the plaintiff side.
All Farmers adjusters are now data entry imputers and nothing more. The turn over is rampant, around the country. All companies are seeing huge turnover. How the companies can afford this and try so many cases with or without house counsel is beyond me. Farmers turn over rate in WA State is unbelievable! 1 office I know of turned over 60% in 6 mo. That is a fact!
Why pay Millions for Colossus?
Why pay millions to house or outside counsel?
Why pay so much to train and then have the CR quit?
DE Novo everything just like Allstate?
Who is leading this Allstate? Hey All Fall in lock step w Allstate's business plan?
Well, I quit!
I'm much more happy now. I'll be happier when Farmers and Allstate get what they deserve. Do you realize that Allstate routinely denies benefits under PIP? That they have changed their policy (unilaterally) to force insured's to make their claims through litigation rather than an arbitration? They step into the shoes of the UM and defend the case (at great expense to their own insured's). They just lay their largess against their own policy payers, and adopt a philosophy that the small firms don't have the resources to fight them. The house counsel hammers them (their own premium payers) into submission
Delay, delay, delay. I recently had a preemptive off on a cliam. I said ,"How do you know what the claim is worth, we haved sent a demand?" Turns out she evaluated the claim on the PIP info and IME's which should have been protected but not SAFECO.
The pendulem will swing. We're seeing more outside cousel refuseing to take files and are seeing turnover in the house counsel firms. Meantime, we wait for a big firm to take them to the table with Unfair pratices and bad faith.