Watch out for Progressive Insurance

[tellyv]

Well I've owned a collision shop now for almost 10 years now and I cant say how crappy most of the insurance companies are, they really try to screw eveyone over as much as possible. Well now Progressive is stepping way over the line I'm sure you've seen there commercials were you can just drop off your car and they'll deal with everything, well your car gets shopped to their drp's (direct repair shops) and you get the cheapest repair possible. Now their making all of their customers go to their drps shops for estimates this means you can still have your shop of choice repair the car but it has to be fixed by Progessives drp's estimate. So what this means is your getting screwed and by the way it's illegal and I'm not sure how they can get away with it but they are. So for the love of god drop your Progressive auto insurance and find something better. Now I'm also not saying that all drp shops are bad or do crappy work just that it's you right to have you shop of choice fix the car to their standards not Progressive's. This is whats going to kill the small shops in a couple years so stand up and don't let them push you around. Sorry for the rant. Telly

[Rod]

Flo is messing with everybody's ride?

[gearheads78]

Progressive is the devil. After working in a quality shop and fighting with the adjusters they hire with no car knowledge I would never pay them a dime.

I have a friend try to get on one time and was flat out told they could not hire him because he knew to much about cars.

[WS6]

Glad I got rid of them years ago.

[elitecustombody]

Add Allstate to the list,they are actually worse

I had a-hole from Progressive call me and and try to get on me like I was stealing their potential customer,when one of my good long time customer was involved in minor fender bender, I told that clown that customer is my loyal customer I've dealt with for over 15 years fixing his,wife's,daughter's cars

[MuscleRodz]

I quit using them years ago. I had one claim (fixed it myself), but they used there sourcing people to find the cheapest parts listed to reduce the cost of the claim as far as they could. It is amazing anyone makes any money in the collision business

[PT Sportwagon]

I dropped progressive years ago, they where actually decent back then. I found a cheaper insurance, then found my current is cheaper yet.

Tim

[ErikLS2]

I have them on my boat, guess it's time to shop around. Thanks for posting.

[go-fish]

I'll start shopping too. Thanks.

[Alain V.]

I also have a shop,,,mechanical (not body repair),,,and have had run ins with various insurance companies.
I have paperwork at my attorney's right now because I'm getting the run around from "esurance".
They owe me and I am NOT going to back off until they pay me what is owed.

With all that said,,,,,,how does someone actually find a decent insurance company that isn't constantly trying to screw over their customers when there is a claim?

I constantly ask my local body shop guys who is the easiest companies to deal with myself.

[Samckitt]

I have them for both my vehicles too. I guess it is time to search for a new one. Working on getting Harerty on the Monte.

I dropped progressive years ago, they where actually decent back then. I found a cheaper insurance, then found my current is cheaper yet.



Tim

Tim, who are you using now?

THanks

[sedalia]

After searching for a while my best deal was with barrett jackson insurance.
One liabilty policy per driver.
and agreed value on each car.
I had to look a while my old insurance {safeco} and many others can't insure my 71 detomaso
pantera , not in their computer.

[Tony_SS]

I had to deal with a Progressive claim and they do try and screw you big time. Drop them asap.

For my daily drivers I've been using Geico for years - good service. I use Hagerty for the rest.

[Randy67]

I was hit by a Geico driver back in 2006, they fixed the car right and didn't hassle us one bit. I am with State Farm (for a long time) but if I was to change I would definitely consider Geico.

[1969CamaroRS]

I had a bad experience with Geico. The short of it, woman backed into my wife in a parking lot, none of the facts were in dispute but Geico still refused liability, this is even with 2 independent witnesses supporting this.

Perhaps a bad adjuster but I would never recommend Geico.

[DarkBuddha]

Usaa ftw.

[ErikLS2]

I have Farmer's myself, originally because a friend of mine was an agent for them. I work as a mechanic and have done the mechanical portion of some large crash jobs for our body shop where farmers was involved and there was no problem with dealership parts or added on repairs. They would just say save the old parts but they never inspected them. I've heard from our bodyshop guys that Countrywide is good to deal with too.

[sicknss71]

Here in Fla Orlando area i have done the drp program with progressive .and what they do is a tear down and then wrote a est . the shop then looks the est over and then show them where they missed and the would rewrite est and lock .not bad deal not always smooth but fair.now if the car has a est wright ed to wright only what they see. and you the shop do a complete tear down and find more damage then they have to replace or repair to pre accident condition. and yes ALLSTATE IS BY FAR THE WORST

[Jim Nilsen]

I have been hit by both State Farm and Allstate drivers and got everything I wanted no problem but the people who hit me got screwed. It seems that some insurance companies try to make themselves look really good by treating the other guy better so they can save with one customer and get another,LOL.

I have always had American Family for most of 30 yrs and had really good results until sometime in the early 90's they started to raise my rates and I left until they called me one day and asked why? I told them I had been with them for years with no claims and thought I was being punished for being a good driver. They lowered my rates a lot and have treated my good ever since.

I use Continental Western for the Cormaro.

[camino70]

I'm with Wyatt. All military personnel need to check it out, USAA.com