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Insurance company that doesn't outsource

lizzie said:
One more thing I would like to add. Liberty Mutual is a privately held company and has never accepted a penny of government money. They are solid and have recently purchased SafeCo out of Seattle- an extremly large company- and they paid cash.
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Thats pretty cool, i didn't know safeco had been purchased
 
clone0 said:
No outsourcing.....EMC Insurance....Count on EMC!

Headquarters in DSM.....no layoffs and no financial troubles like some others in the last couple of years.

Bonus....ISU supporter.
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I like the bonus!
 
johnpkelly81 said:
Since you also brought up credit unions I was also wondering about what people recommend in the metro/Ames area.
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Members1st Community Credit Union in Ames is pretty good. Also have branches in Boone, Mtown, and maybe 1-2 other locations.
 
Liberty Mutual = cheap

Cheap insurance is good until you have a claim. From personal experience, I think LM has perfected the tag team "no, your car isn't worth nearly that much" bit.

If it's your primary concern, the call center I dealt with is in Illinois...
 
kilgore_trout said:
Liberty Mutual = cheap

Cheap insurance is good until you have a claim. From personal experience, I think LM has perfected the tag team "no, your car isn't worth nearly that much" bit.

If it's your primary concern, the call center I dealt with is in Illinois...
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Farm Bureau doesn't have the cheapest insurance, but they have great service to offset that. They try to get the claims handled as quickly as possible. You get what you pay for.
 
Liberty Mutual is 10 on CR so probably not going that way, FB is rated well and local, EMC I don't know much about just yet
 
CyGal said:
Farm Bureau doesn't have the cheapest insurance, but they have great service to offset that. They try to get the claims handled as quickly as possible. You get what you pay for.
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FB rates in DM are pretty good, they want the business there. FB is a pretty big donor to ISU and from what i know are pretty good people to work with and don't use loopholes to get out of things.

FYI, I am a FB agent.
 
IMT and Wadena are Midwest-based companies. We always get a U.S. person when we call, but we always call our local office and agent.

You might be able to find what you're looking for on this site Insurance Companies H-I- LawResearch
 
simply1 said:
Please no politics, I'd like to find a quality insurance company that does not outsource overseas, a small step I'd like to take. I figure I'm safe moving my banking from Bank of America to a credit union or local bank? Dish Network/DirecTv is probably not solvable other than going to *gulp* mediacom.

I would like to do what I can, I understand there are things you can't purchase that don't meet this criteria.

Any suggestions for WDM?
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What a really great idea. I have no advice on the insurance. But I'm a member of Verdian Credit Union and I assume they are all local. And I know mediacom gets a bad rap, but at least for a year or two you can lock in at really low rates with really fast internet. I got Mediacom, figuring that I would switch to Dish or Direct soon, but I am loving having Mediacom.
 
Allied Insurance, tech, everything in house. Headquarters in Des Moines, Owned by Nationwide in Columbus, Ohio. Great company to work for. Tornados in Parkersburg= 2 companies left in that town, Allied Insurance and Farm Bureau, most others treated their customers like crap.
 
CyGal said:
Farm Bureau doesn't have the cheapest insurance, but they have great service to offset that. They try to get the claims handled as quickly as possible. You get what you pay for.
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We have FB and have been extremely happy with everything from them. We had a small homeowner claim last year due to hail damage on our roof, and they had an estimator out and had a check to us within 10 days of us calling it in.
 
Grinnell Mutual - everything is local and they bend over backwards from a service standpoint! One hundred years old in 2009 so they're around to stay...

Also a big ISU sponsor, though the recently retired CEO was a UNI alum...
 
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From the story I posted earlier, it doesn't seem like Nationwide/Allied meet my criteria
 
simply1 said:
From the story I posted earlier, it doesn't seem like Nationwide/Allied meet my criteria
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Missed the story... didn't realize that was happenning. I've dealt with MANY mortgage company service reps from India... most are difficult to understand and take twice as long to get things done. However, all they do is call and update/confirm mortgage clauses on policies. It's very simple and requires almost no thought. I'd also assume they get a fraction of the salary.

I'll look further, but my guess is that those jobs are more like the ones I described above.
 
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