Economical Insurance Auto Insurance Reviews

On April 14th I severely damaged my motorcycle and called Economical to advise them however I also told them I was going after MOT as it happened on a 400 series highway as I had hit a huge pothole.
Shortly after, while I was away out of town representatives of the insurance company had my bike removed by a tow truck from my buddy’s motorcycle shop without my permission. I was told that they could not reach me after numerous attempts while the tow truck was there and they became very argumentative with him… They released the bike as they were afraid of retribution…..note the pattern of bullying!! Upon my return, they would not tell me initially where it was. I still had the ownership in my possession.
The adjuster then decided to continue to bully me. First by treating my call as a claim. Then he asked me if there was anyone in the “ back seat?” and furthermore told me it was all my fault as “ the roads don’t move”… Obviously having never heard of expansion joints or frost heaving.
Shortly after the incident a highway patrol officer pulled over in his SUV and after telling me he was a motorcycle patrol officer as well, told me he too hit the huge hole and his whole SUV shuttered. He then proceeded to survey my bike’s damage and then looked at me and stated quite calmly…” How did you ever manage to not drop the bike?… You should be dead or in a wheelchair”… 55 years of riding many a different motorcycle…do you think maybe skill?
As I had mentioned the bike was severely damaged but by no means not repairable. I was never given the opportunity to discuss the possibility of re-acquiring it. Instead, the adjuster first sent me a third-party evaluation of the damage and it wasn’t even the same bike, it was some bike in Quebec with twice the mileage and not an ABS/FA model. These two representatives, ignorant people proceeded to bully me and as they had literally stolen my bike I found myself in a non-negotiable position.
One of them then offered an insulting settlement based on a third-party report and I was very clear that whoever was providing the evaluation had no idea what they were talking about…. 1) wrong year of a similar bike 2) wrong mileage 3) even to go so far as to prove their ignorance by claiming it was not the top of the line ABS/FA model… which I attempted to correct them but ran into more bullying. I even sent them a picture of the bike without the luggage bags attached but with the racks showing very clearly and told her” I prefer to ride my bike naked, a common term in the motorcycle industry and I got back a retort “Do not talk to “my” employees like that”…. Obviously showing off her insecurities and ignorance all in the same sentence. The adjuster then told me that I was welcome to seek other similar bikes as mine but I wasn’t permitted to use Marketplace or Kijiji…. do you think he was being guided….it was obvious he was out of his league. How insulting/ ignorant is that? … so I used other websites and provided them with proof that the bike was worth much more by sending him/her the ad links. Get this!… No more value discussion from either one… Two days later I was told that I now had to hire, at my cost, an independent motorcycle appraiser and once I had the appraisal an arbitrator would make the final, binding decision. Realized at this time I still did not know where my bike was and I still had the registration in my possession.
I have never been so poorly treated in all my 70 years. Economical/Definity is a terribly run company with absolutely the rudest, untrained persons on the front line….
The CEO should be tarred and feathered…

I have all the correspondence between adjusters, my broker and my wife in print… It’s no wonder that there is a huge disclaimer at the bottom of every email… pathetic humans.

The worst customer service that I received in Canada. I had an auto claim and the claims advisor told me she would reach out to me after 15 minutes of our phone conversation. I haven't heard back anything from her even after leaving 5 voicemails and 3 emails. She never picks up the call when I try to reach her or call back. It's been already one month since I have been trying to get in touch with her. Never go to this insurance company ever.

My car was written off 2 months ago. I have yet to see my settlement and the representative I have been dealing with is very unhelpful, doesn't seem to know what's going on, and has such poor grammar and English skills I cannot understand half of her emails. When asking questions she ignores the ones she doesn't want to answer. Will never use them again even if they are the best price.

I has an accident on the highway and the police officer said it is not my fault but the insurance didn’t listen to the police officer and they want me to pay the deductible

If it had less than one star, I would have picked it up!!!
Economical Insurance claim is horrible!!
They pay you out for a total loss at least 30% lower than a market, claim team reply your emails every other 3 days for an urgent situation!! They don’t accept any of your expenses on your car claim whereas they have the same items in their acceptable expenses template!!! No phone call will be answered!!
No message calls will be returned!!!
They just want you to pay you at all!
If you have an auto claim with Economical Insurance, then good luck!

They do not return calls or emails, took them a month to let me know that my car was a write-off. No fault to my wife who was driving, only had 1400km on it (two weeks old) and they want to pay me 10,000 less than what we paid for. We even have a depredation policy on cars. Took two more weeks (with me calling and emailing after a week) before they would pay the full loss of the car. Will not pay for car rental until we get a new car to replace the one we lost. Or any other cost, interest on a loan, registration cost to transfer to a new car. So if there are like that with you at no fault, what are they going to be like if it was your fault? They sent out a letter to pay another 250 bucks right after the accident. So I paid it, but once my year is up, I will never deal with them ever. I would like to cancel my insurance, but only for two months now with an insurance policy, so they would screw me hard if I canceled now. But I might just be the point of it all.

Had a total loss and had a rental for almost 3 months. My insurance is through Sonnet but Economical deals with all the claims. Been going back and forth and my adjuster will not call me back. When I did get a call back it was more delayed. Finally came to a settlement and the adjuster said they would issue a check and that it would arrive on May 16, 2023. It is now May 18 and when I called they said no check has been issued. Horrible adjuster!

You can phone, email or text. They will never return your correspondence. Terrible service when they say they will walk you through a claim. They won't.

It's been a week since I called and made a claim. I have made many calls and my car is still in a towing company's impound. The agent first contacted has not responded. The next agent said I would hear from her by end of the day, but that did not happen as promised. No one seems to be looking into anything from my end and no one seems to be taking care of my car or answering me.

Feeling Ignored is terrible.

First off, I gave 2 stars for customer service because the front desk tried their best to get someone to call me back. I had to call over 10 plus times for a callback.

My adjuster Leiko - was rude, unprofessional, liar.

Economical team leads - empty promises.

Spend the extra dollars with another company. Not worth the hassle with this company.