Zachary Curry
1/5
A strike-out when they could have had a home run!
This agency did very little to follow through on requests for a return call, provided no customer loyalty, and Katie was completely devoid of empathy as I navigated the estate process for a loved one who passed — a longtime insured with this agency.
Being a past insurance agent and knowing there may be questions of insurability interest upon her death, I notified them within 10 days of her passing, which ends up penalizing the estate as I receive notices that policy is being non-renewed due to her death.
If anyone knows the insurance market in California, it’s difficult to get new policies written at an affordable price and the choice to non-renew these policies puts undue pressure on the surviving family to source policies before their renewal or avoid having a lapse in coverage which could be quite costly in the near or long-term. My hope was that they would ‘go to bat’ for their insured and her family, but this was a ‘strike-out’ when they could have had a ‘home run’
Calls to check on the policy status’ after receiving the non-renewal paperwork in the mail were unanswered for 7 days and required me to initiate multiple calls to try and get any communication with the Katie or Ross. When I finally got a call from Katie, I wasn’t as bothered with the bad news as I was with her complete lack of empathy and emotional intelligence. She snapped at me and made snide comments as I discussed the intricacies of the issues with her. I was polite and explained my frustration with this decision in the hopes that it would create a way for them to understand the effects this decision has and possibly a new way to look at it from an underwriting perspective. Katie’s completely dismissive and unapologetic way of handling this interaction has led to the loss of business for Allstate and for the Ross E. Curtis’ agency.