[Healeys] State Farm Insurance

Alan Seigrist healey.nut at gmail.com
Sat Jan 30 20:31:06 MST 2010


Interesting, my experience with State Farm on my Healey is the exact
opposite.  Always paid my bills without complaint (only ever had one
claim though).  Sine State Farm does 50% of the business in CA, my
guess is it all depends who handles your case.  My agent has always
been awesome.

On 1/30/10, Jack Feldman <qualitas.jack at gmail.com> wrote:
> Before we turn this into a love fest for our insurers, let me warn you about
> my experience with SF.
>
> When I had a claim, the adjusters had never seen a Healey, didn't know it's
> value, and proceeded to bargain down the extimate. As far as they were
> concerned it was just an old car. Whatever the shop wanted for labor was too
> much, and this was a rural shop where the price of labor was lower than the
> city. They also tried to deny some damage because the hadn't seen a car that
> didn't have integral, plastic or rubber bumpers. The also refused to pay for
> painting the lower half of a fender because only the top was damaged. They
> expected a match when the paint color was not easy to find.
>
> Collector car insurance companies understand your car, and don't try to get
> away cheap as SM did.
>
> However, *I am absolutely delighted with State Farm for my non collector
> cars.* I am with a great agency that is always available, and takes my side
> in some disputes. They went to bat for painting that whole fender, and when
> SF refused to budge, gave me some gas cards to compenstate for my paying. I
> was truly sorry to take my cars away from their care.
>
> I was sorry to find out they couldn't write my collector insurance.
>
> Jack
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Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'59 Jag Mk IX
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