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Complaint Review: Progressive Insurance - Nationwide

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PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE * Payola Justice*

IS PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE BUYING JUDGES SO IT CAN DENY CLAIMS ?

40% of Justices' campaign funds linked to bench cases, **


I was hit by a truck insured by Progressive Insurance and the truck was at fault and ticketed. My vehicle was totaled and I was very seriously injured. It took over eight years to get through the court system. During which time the lawyers for Progressive were so arrogant they at times failed to appear in court.

After eight years without a penny in payment of any medical bills I was given a judgement. I then learned why the lawyers for Progressive did not seem to be worried about the case. It seems that this law firm representing Progressive Insurance in my case had made campaign contributions directly to the state supreme court judges in the tens of thousands of dollars. This does not account for all of the other law firms in the state that also represented Progressive Insurance and made large contributions to appellate level judges.

The appellate court judges found that even though the trucking company was insured by Progressive Insurance and the driver was performing within his duties as an employee that a judgement against the driver was not the responsibility of the insurance company. It not only reversed a 1.5 million dollars judgement but stated that as the victim of the ticketed driver I should pay their law firms legal fees.

Yes the trucking company was insured by Progressive Insurance, yes the driver was performing within his daily duties, yes he was at fault, and was ticketed at the scene, yes after over eight years a judgement was finally issued in my favor. No Progressive Insurance was not liable to pay as they insured the trucks for the now bankrupt trucking company but not the driver according to the court. I guess I would have only been paid if I was hit by a truck without a driver.

DON'T TRUST ANY PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE POLICY PRESENTED AT AN ACCIDENT SITE.

DON'T TRUST A BOUGHT AND PAID FOR COURT!


*Texans for Public Justice, Feb 1998
How Texas Supreme Court Justices Raise Money From Court Litigants.
**Houston Chronicle Feb. 24, 1998

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#3 Consumer Comment

YOU'ER WRONG!!!!!! PROGRESSIVE IS RESPONSIBLE TO MITIGATE THE DAMANGE'S!!!!!!!!!!!

AUTHOR: Charles - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Saturday, November 27, 2004

Sorry,pal no you'er wrong!,it's the insurance company's responsibilty to mitigate the loss not mine! when their insured caused the wreck and their is no such thing has a storage free location everybody is going to charge storage fee's that's alot of (BULLSHIT!) who do people get off blaming me that i should have to pay for the additonal storage fee's when the accidnet wasn't my fault?!,and progressive except's me to pay for everything and them not pay anything these storage fee's are progressive's fault because they refuse to settle this in a timely manner cause like most of you (a*****e'S) insurance company's don't want to pay off the car balance when ya'll's insured destroy's someone eles's property i didn't cause any of this mess and i will not pay any storage fee's and no court's and rule and make me pay them because the accident wasn't my fault!.Their is no such,thing has a storage free location and i'am sick and d**n tired of people blaming me for the storage fee's and not progressive i do not have $2000 just to give to the bodyshop it's just becase i'am young 22 year's of age 21 at the time of the accident and they want to take advantage of me,progressice except's me to pay $15 grand all i did was go out that day to take care of some busniess i didn't except this accidnet and all the mess that i'am going in know.Progressive's,problem is that they did not want to pay off the car before they requested for us to hand it over and the reason why insurance company's doesn't want to pay for the claim's and for our insurance company's because if our insurance company has to pay it goes bad on our record and i didn't know that see till my mother tried to get insurance transfered into another state and she has had 3 accident's none her fault she alway's was stoped at a redlight or a stop sign and someone was going to fast and rearended her and those no fault accidnet's ended up on her record because those insurance company's failed to pay for anything because her insurance alway's had to pay and it's not fair it goes on her record because those accident's wasn't her fault.I,refuse to pay any additonal storage fee's because progressive failed to settle this accident in an timely manner these dumbass people need to watch where they are going to aviod these accidnet's or this mess would have never had happen,you'er wrong about me having to pay these additonal storage fee's that progressive has ran up because they didn't want to pay for anymore storage charge's and know the bill is $2000 & i disagree with you about the storage free location there is no such thing everybody charge's storage fee's.This accident has caused damange to my credit file at no fault of my own! i will not spend the next 5 year's of my life paying storage fee's to this bodyshop it's (HELL) to deal with these (a*****e) insurance company's like progressive because like alway's they failed to pay off the car,it's not my fault that the storage fee's is so high! and progressive think's i should pay the storage fee's along with the balance on the car they are flat out wrong!

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What? a few facts you may not know about....

AUTHOR: Dave - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Sorry Charles about your loss but a few facts you may not know about....

Most insurance companies do have agreements with either bodyshops or tow yards that they will store salvage vehicles for free for a certain amount of days. Yes, they do exist. From what I understand in your letter you think this is not possible...It is and does exist.

Your refusal to have your vehicle moved to such a storage free location is the company's fault?? Not sure what your thought process is but ok.
As far as your car being totaled. You owe $10 grand and they only offer you $6 grand.... They owe to pay the fair market value for your vehicle. I can buy a can of soda for 50 cents and you may buy the same can for $3 dollars. Why should the insurance company pay for you overpaying for the same product? This is a silly example of course but does it make sense? If they told you they would pay for storage for your car till x number of days and that's it and you said no to having the car moved than you should pay for any additional storage.
Sorry Charley but nothing wrong here.

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#1 Consumer Comment

PROGRESSIVE'S INSRUED RUINED MY CAR REFUSE'S TO SETTLE CLAIM DIRTY RUTHLESS PIG'S!!!!!!!!

AUTHOR: Charles - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Monday, November 22, 2004

I,was involed in auto accident last 09/12/03 with one of progressive insured's backing out of their driveway and hitting the left side of my car onto the rode i was travling on,i had stoped at a stop sign when i left my house just down the block after i stoped at the stop sign i then proceeded to make a left hand turn after i completed this vehicle backed out of their driveway backing into me causing damange to the left front fender and headlight and causing the car to stall out.

The,police were called and they took the report the car was left undrivable after the impact and had to be towed the police called a tow truck and it was towed to the nearest body shop,later that night we made a claim with our insurace and reported the accident to get a rental car the next day we got the rental car and the following week we then concacted the other party's insurance who caused the accident and told them about the accident and told their adjuster my statement about what had happen.

Two week's after the accident they sent someone from their department to go look over the car to see how much the repair's were going to cost's they got back with us with $3364 in repair's after they did the estitime's they found their insured guilty for causing the accidnet and sent me a check for the repair's, we gave the body shop the go ahead to start repair's.

When the body, shop began the tear down the found more damange they found that when the impacted happen the electrical wire's had been cut so the bodyshop ceased all repair's and then called progressive back.Progressive went, and did another estiment to found out it would cost's way more then from the orginal repair cost all totaling $6400 so they just decided to total the car out this was about a month after the accident had happend i took the money after they total the car out and purchase me a new car because we could not keep the rental car another 30 day's and i had to quit making payment's the car that was totaled after that was when my real problem's began after i purchased the new car progressive requested that i had over them the car before they paid for it the reason why because they didn't want to pay for anymore storage fee's where the car was being kepted at the bodyshop.

Progressive,then sent me a letter stating they are refusing to pay anymore storage fee's due to my refusal to move it to a storage free place what storage free place their's no such thing they wanted the car before they paid for it progressive just didn't want to pay for anymore storage fee's progressive wanted the car before they paid for it after their insured destroyed it and it's not right that they want pay for it i only owed $10,000 they could have paid of the car easily but they refused they only wanted to pay $6,000 know sense they stoped paying storage payment's to the body shop storage charge's were building up during this time and progressive except's me to pay for the balance and the storage fee's all togather and them not pay anymore money then what they already had which is wrong,the accident was not my fault and my finance company doesn't seem to understand that the accident was not my fault it's the insurance company's responsibilty to mitigate the damange's when their driver is at fault for the accident and progressive refused to settle the claim and refused to make anymore storage fee payment's to let the storage fee's get so high.

Back in febuary,i found out progressive got the body shop to stop the storage payment's at $2,000 i contacted the insurance commissoner's had them look into it these storage charge's aren't my fault progressive refused to settle the claim in a timely manner and it's their fault the storage fee's are so high because of their refusal to pay the claim they also kepted asking for the title to the car why should i let them have the car when they refused to pay for it after their insured caused the accident, because of this accident i'am in a financial dept with my finance company because i can't pay them with having to buy a new car because of this accident and the payment's being tied up in that and it's been a year sense it happen and still nothing being done it's progressive's fault about the storage fee's because they refused to settle the accidnet of course like all insurance company's they do not want to pay anything progressive except's me to pay for the storage fee's and to pay on my loan they got another thing coming!.

My,credit is messed, up my credit was in good standing all up till the time of the accident when progressive refused to settle i contacted the insurance comminsoner's office they said oh well no court's can make me pay the storage fee's because the accident was not my fault i'am in financial depted because of progressive i don't have the money to pay for the storage fee's and i will not pay them!,

progressive insured caused all this mess i'am going threw and they have to with refusing to settle progressive found another victim to screw over i'am having diffuclty finding an attorney to get a judgement out agaisnt progressive insured for causing this accident and for ruining my credit my credit was fine till the time of this accident my car is ruined had to purchase a new one and had to quit paying my finance company because of the new car progressive has screwed me big time! i do not know how to retain a judgement out agaisnt progressive because i have never been in this kind of mess in my life i have manange to ignore my finance company's threat's they think i should still have to pay them and they just let progressive of the hook.

I've have complained, to the BBB for their harassment because the accident was not my fault! and progressive except's me to pay for everything and them not pay nothing they have planned this out very well they think their getting away with something but at the end this thing will come up and bite them in the a*s!!!!!!

i do not deserve this treatment because this accidnet was not my fault!!!!!!! and i will not take any of their abuse why should i have to pay the storage fee's when the accident was not my fault and they refused to settle and let the storage fee's get so high progressive will pay for what all they caused me ruthless pig's!!!!!!!!!.

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