AMA Auto Insurance Reviews

AMA has nice people working there but the insurance rates are completely out of line. They wanted to charge me $1,300 and this is without any claims, traffic tickets, or damages. I started with paying less than $1,000 /yr. There's definitely something fishy going on. Shop around. Don't choose AMA

My car was a write-off following a collision. They continued to charge me my monthly insurance rate long after my car was taken away. This was because, according to them, I failed to call their insurance department following my call to their claims department after the collision occurred. They informed me there is no intracommunication within the company amongst the departments, so the duty fell to me to make sure my insurance was cancelled. However, at no point was it expressed to me that a second call had to be made. I do not recognize this as common knowledge, considering the multiple people I have spoken to who have also made collision claims and who have never come across this issue of having to call multiple departments (and then being penalized for not doing so).

I had never been involved in a collision before and had never made a claim. I called the claims department, informed them of what had happened, and did not receive any instructions or advice on how to proceed. At that moment, I felt safe and secure with the idea that my insurer was taking care of the resulting mess. If I am paying $200+ a month, then I would expect to feel secure following an accident, trusting my insurance company to take care of those items which fall within their realm. Obviously, my trust was misplaced.

They refused to reimburse me for the monies that had been removed from my account and proceeded to charge a cancellation fee for "cancelling" my insurance coverage. The overall experience made me feel like a walking dollar sign as opposed to a person. If you are looking for a false sense of security, then AMA is the place to go. However, if you are ever in need of making a claim, you can be assured that they will make no effort in absorbing the shock of the process.

To be fair, my prior experiences with AMA in dealing with their sale representatives were generally positive. That being said, people are usually all smiles when they're attempting to get one's business. Keeping it, on the other hand, is a huge AMA failure.

tl;dr AMA is useless if you're making a claim, and -- really -- the whole point of an insurer is to be useful when you have to make a claim.