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Poor Claims Handling
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Rating: 1/51

ARLINGTON, TEXAS -- A driver ran a red light and hit our vehicle causing enough damage to for our full size SUV to be declared a total loss. At the time of the accident, the other driver was cited by the police department for running the red light and for not having a valid driver's license. It has now been a week, and Morgan **, the claims adjuster at Kemper has placed this claim on the back-burner causing us to come out of pocket for alternative transportation, medical bills and other expenses related to the accident.

Morgan **, the licensed adjuster, has been uncooperative, rude and lacks the professionalism that should come with being an adjuster licensed by the State of Texas. Infinity Insurance and Kemper Claims have no regard for parties that have suffered a loss due to their insured parties and they make no effort to ensure that the parties are taken care of and that they are properly handled after the loss.

We have tried to remain polite yet vigilant however, as allowed by state law, we will be forced to file suit against Morgan ** directly as she is obligated to perform under her duties in good faith and in accordance with the guidelines provided by the Texas Department of Insurance.

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Bad Faith Insurance
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BOISE, IDAHO -- My car was parked outside our house and was unoccupied at the time of the accident. A car coming in the opposite direction swerved and hit my car head on, causing it to be a total loss. The police were called and they cited the driver with inattentive driving.

The passenger, who turned out to be the owner, was taken to the hospital. When reporting the accident both to our insurance company and Kemper, the other car owner's insurance company, we received rudeness and hostility from Yolanda **, the claims agent we were assigned to at Kemper. We found out from our agent that Kemper denied the claim because they said they were unable to get a statement from either the car owner or the driver.

Since our agent didn't seem to show much gumption in the matter, my husband was able to find out when and where the sentencing hearing would be for the driver. He appeared in person at this hearing, and spoke with the car owner herself. He asked her if she had authorized the driver to drive her car, and she stated that, yes, she had asked him to drive since she had a migraine that day. My husband then asked her to call Yolanda and make that same statement.

The car owner responded by saying that both she and the driver had attempted to call Yolanda on several occasions and each time got a recording saying "mail box full". We emailed this information to Yolanda and our agent, and received a letter stating that our claim had been denied with no mention of the pertinent information we'd provided, or any explanation as to why the claim had been denied.

Our agent at Travelers (who we now deem less than useless) made it clear there was nothing he could do! Should anyone reading this ever be involved in an accident, I hope the car involved is not insured by either Kemper or Alpha Property & Casualty Insurance Company (the underwriters in this case).

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Do not work with this company
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LONG GROVE, ILLINOIS -- I cannot express how stunned and frustrated I am at how slow, incompetent, uncommunicative and unethical I find this company to be. I've been a customer for close to ten years. I submitted my first ever claim (we hit a dear that ran into the road) almost six weeks ago. Six weeks I've been waiting for my claim to be finalized and resolved. Every step with Kemper has been elongated and drawn out. They made errors filing the initial claim so it was rejected. They sent someone out to estimate it who was not an expert, and made an incredible amount of errors (didn't include funds for replacement parts that she marked as damaged, sourced used replacement parts that were damaged and unusable, submitted funds for the wrong kind of paint, the list goes on). Since then we've had to submit supplemental claim after supplemental claim to try and recover the cost. Each claim has been reduced below what it cost to fix the car. Our car has been finished by the auto body shop for a week now, and neither myself or the auto body shop can get Kemper to finalize or approve the needed supplemental claim. To reiterate, we have been without our car for six weeks and still have no answers. Please, please, please, please if you are reading this and deciding upon an insurance company, do not go with Kemper.

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Worst Insurance Ever!!!
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Rating: 1/51

I got rear ended by a Kemper Insurance customer. I filed the claimed and got nothing back for two weeks. Finally got my got a letter from Kemper and it stated that the adjuster will help me figure out my damage quote and call to him if I have any questions. I called multiple times but no response so I called his supervisor and left him a voice mail. Next day, he returned the called and stated that the accident is still an ongoing investigation which I do get but I just needed to know where I'm at with the claim.

A month later, I called Kemper's adjuster and had ZERO response. I called Kemper's office and they stated that they will leave a messenger for him to call me back. He sent an email to me the next day about my estimated damage and for me to give it to my repair shop. I emailed him back on how to proceed with my rental car but no response AGAIN. So I waited for 3 weeks and no response so again, I called Kemper's office about how he never calls me about any updates and never pick up his phone. That day, he called and was going to set up an appointment with the rental car and sadly, he cancelled it because I didn't make an appointment with my repair shop. My adjuster needs to tell me what step I needed to do so I may follow up but no directions given.

This is the worst experience and feeling that I ever had. Please DO something about Kemper's Insurance service or just my adjuster. I can guarantee that whoever had the adjuster that I had through Kemper is also experiencing the same.

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Avoid Kemper At All Costs
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CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA -- After my husband had a teeny tiny no big deal uncontested fender bender with a friend he plays sports with, we reported the incident to our insurer Kemper - Big Mistake. I called our agent who referred me to an 800 Kemper claims number. The lady who took the info was nice, professional, competent - great. She said an adjuster would call the next day. The next day the adjuster did call - UNFORTUNATELY. This woman was HORRIBLE - terrible customer service beyond belief. And I PAY THEM for this????

This "person" was so incredibly stupid that she could not answer ANY of my questions, and made a lot of stuff up about what had happened, supposedly "quoting" my husband. She was very wrong and we tried so diligently to get through to her. She just sucked 100%. I called our agent back who said I needed to file a formal complaint. I called Kemper in PA back and talked to some great, totally competent, very patient people in Customer Relations. They advised me STRONGLY to allow them to make a formal complaint about this idiot in NC. I told them I just wanted answers.

They said "PLEASE you MUST make a complaint, this woman is very wrong, and you MUST get a new adjuster." OK. The next day a even more horrible man called us - the stupid woman's supervisor. He basically stated that what we told him could not possibly be true because that is not how they do business, and he had never heard any of his "guys" say anything like that (I guess he listens to every single solitary word his "guys" say all day long... right). He was a blazing JERK.

Amazingly disgusting - both of them. I called my agent back again. I called Kemper Customer Relations back again and again they were GREAT! But they unfortunately have not control or influence over the HORRIBLE-OUT-OF-CONTROL-JERKS-IN-CLAIMS-IN-NC (this is NOT hyperbole - but rather the understatement of the century).

A while later we got a call from the supervisor of the HORRIBLE claims-woman's HORRIBLE supervisor-man. While this 3rd person was AT LEAST intelligent (which neither of the 1st 2 claims people were) he still was not nice enough. He still defended them. He still did not fix ANYTHING. He still did not apologize for their disgusting lack of both brains or business manners.

BASICALLY he did nothing except say he hoped that I would reconsider and not cancel my Kemper policy in favor of a GOOD COMPANY'S policy... Again: Right. So, I called Kemper back to find out who the boss of this 3rd claims person was - and there IS NOBODY! LOL. The poor kind folks in Kemper's Customer Relations have to take all the crap from customers like me who have been HORRIBLY MISTREATED by the claims folks who do not have even 2 brain cells to rub together, yet they have no recourse except to route the complaint BACK TO THE HORRIBLE SHOP THAT CREATED THE PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE!

It is like attempting to deal with horrible freaks in another dimension! BOTTOM LINE: Our agent is working on estimates from OTHER INSURANCE COMPANIES - companies who are GOOD unlike Kemper. I HATE KEMPER.

BEWARE! Their Customer Relations could not be BETTER. Their Claims could not be WORSE. And to think, I've actually been paying them so much money to insure and represent me. I am filing complaints with the local BBB and the NC Department of Insurance - already talked to them and they said that they indeed are the agency that can control these horrible out of control agents.

STILL BEWARE - the claims folks can do and say anything they want to with impunity - do they mean any harm? no, I don't believe so - they are just way too stupid to know any better. I informed the #3 claims man (the head claims guy on earth for Kemper - beyond whom there is no boss... HOW does he have NO BOSS???) that we need satisfaction and he did not care - further that we expect an apology from each of his IDIOT claims adjusters, that they are then fired (OF COURSE!), and that Kemper refund all of the money we've ever paid them and then continue to insure us for free forever. And actually that will not be enough.

Those jerks should be fired. I'm working on it. In the meantime DO NOT USE KEMPER! You've been warned.

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Overcharge
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Rating: 1/51

EL MONTE, CALIFORNIA -- Stay far away from Kemper if you can. They have the worst customer service for any insurance I have ever dealt with. They cancel my policy. And two Months later send me to COLLECTION. They charge me for last month I never been covered and an extras fees than I didn't understand. I'm so disappointed why this company can be so dishonest. I don't recommend at all. STAY FAR AWAY FROM THEM. BADLY AND DISHONEST COMPANY.

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Terrible Company You Never Hear Back
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Rating: 1/51

I was rear-ended in December of 2018, filed my claims and did my due diligence... Kemper did not. I never once received a call from them, after emailing and calling them and asking for managers. They have very poor customer service and are a bit rude and disorganized. Look elsewhere if you're shopping around, this company is terrible.

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Home Owners Insurance
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Rating: 1/51

VICTORVILLE, CALIFORNIA -- Filed a claim June 2017. I had paid extra for rental insurance on our home for 17 years after our tenants moved out. Every door in the home had large holes. The walls and even the ceiling in the garage was riddled with holes. Broken toilet, ripped flooring and more. After 3 months of waiting for some kind of help was told this was the result of hard living, not to mention the repeated unanswered calls. Worst company!!!

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Never by Insurance via Kemper Insurance as They Are Horrible With a Claim
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AUSTIN, TEXAS -- My son had a house fire on 7/3/09 which totally destroyed his home. He contacted Kemper and the adjuster told him it was the holiday weekend and he really couldn't do anything to help him until Monday. All credit, debit and bank access was burned. The adjuster came on Monday but did not bring a check book. Since the initial meeting they have done everything that is possible to not pay toward this claim. Even to hint that the fire was started by the homeowner/my son and daughter-in-law.

They were deposed on Friday 9/11/09 and after a horrible deposition which included an attorney calling my son a liar, they were told they now know how the fire started and they were not under suspicion. One of the questions that was asked that the attorney called my son a liar about was he was asked if he ever had an insurance claim. He answered no. The lie that was supposed to have been told was that he was in a car accident at age 18 and was a passenger and was taken to a hospital and there was a claim submitted to my health care agency.

I can't believe they have the nerve to even investigate your health claim. What happened to HIPPAA. This had no relevance to this claim. My son also had the unfortunate hardship of having his company close a 3 years ago. He was unemployed for 1 year and had to declare bankruptcy. They are now financially solvent and they brought their bankruptcy into the deposition and are using it not to pay contents of the home.

NEVER EVER EVER buy a policy from Kemper or Unitrin. There should legislation to protect the consumer. How can you be a victim of a fire, pay for insurance and have the insurance company treat you in this manner. My son said the deposition was the worst thing he has ever been through. Before the company he worked for closed, he was a VP of the company. He is business wise and could not believe the maltreatment he was subjected to!

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Avoid Kemper Auto Insurance
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Our teenage son - granted he was speeding - got two speeding tickets within a month. We were with Kemper for nearly ten years and they decided to drop us outright, and our policy runs out next month. The letter seemed very brooding - "you need to get an attorney if you want to fight our decision" sort of letter. Yeah. After being with them for almost ten years they turn around and pull this off. I called an agent. He treated me as if I had AIDS.

Kemper starts out fine with you, but they're actually out for your money, but if the smallest thing happens to you - even if you back down from a claim, it's still placed on record that you called and yes, it counts against you. We contacted USAA. I came clean with where we are with my son and their rates actually came out to be slightly lower than Kemper - even AFTER those speeding tickets my son ended up with were available for the agent to see our status.

Kemper is just another one of these fly by night insurance companies that are out for your money - but lo and behold if you get a speeding ticket, it's over, and they will reject you. I will be letting everyone know to avoid Kemper via Facebook, Myspace, and by other means too (email). I run a blog and also write an online opinion column with a team of writers.

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11 reviews & complaints.
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Kemper Insurance
1 Kemper Dr.
Long Grove, IL 60049
847-320-2000 (ph)
847-320-2494 (fax)
www.kemperinsurance.com
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