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Worst insurance in the World

by rubbish cooperators on Aug 17, 2018
1 out of 5 stars

This insurance company is really a garbage. The collision happened 3 weeks ago and they didn't reach out their client! They just told me the driver is not answering the phone and asked me to wait and wait and wait only! I personally called the driver and there is it, someone answered the phone! I told this to one of the agents but he's still saying me they cannot do anything at this point so just wait!!! And then this agent just cut off my phone!!! 3 weeks I have to pay the towing fee and all the transportation myself!!! Trust me, the Cooperators will do nothing when you have a problem. I suggest everyone, don't use this rubbish company anymore or you have to prepare for a tragedy.

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So sick of this company

by Kimmy on Feb 17, 2018
1 out of 5 stars

I've been with this company for 5 years just in the last 8 months they have messed my whole account up they have been taking amounts out that weren't supposed to be taking out they have messed my stuff up so bad that they cancelled my insurance for their mistake and then RI put me back on charging me an extra $40 a month and then once it's all straightened out on their side they decide to start taking money out of my daughter's account and then putting it back in and taking it back out and putting it back in and then start charging me extra from the amount that supposed to be taken out encouraging me NSF fees on their side plus NSF fees on my bank side when the amount was supposed to be 188 they would go into my account and take out 268 some days it was 386 how do you get 188 from those amounts wish you guys could just get yourself together and take the proper amounts out and stop taking money out of my daughter's account this is ridiculous I shouldn't have to go through this my insurance was $146 and because yous guys messed it up you now charge me 186 for your mistake plus all . All the NSF charges I've had to pay because of your mistakes I should be reimbursed for all of this including my daughter as well this is the worst company I have ever dealt with in my entire life

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Buyer be warned

by DisappointedHusband on Jun 16, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

My wife was in a car accident in 2015. Suffered a massive back injury, can't sit normally in a chair anymore due to pins holding her back together. I had a premium Auto Insurance coverage with over a million in coverage for rehabilitation. Cooperators does not assist at all. You need to constantly fill out forms and get doctors assessments before they provide any financial assistance in making life comfortable. My wife has slept on the couch for 2 years waiting for a custom bed. Every month, "we just need one more form filled out". Simply disgusting how they treat a human. You become nothing more than a case file and an expense. Buyer be warned, Cooperators has little interest in helping, just making a profit.

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Best Insurance for Auto

by Kelly Miller on Apr 24, 2017
4.5 out of 5 stars

I've had two not-at-fault accidents caused by careless/reckless drivers, who evidently were charged by police - but I digress. After both accidents I called The Cooperators within an hour of the collision, and they immediately got to work with renting me a car, getting my car taken to a body shop, and hooking me up with their injury claims people. My premiums are pretty low, and my experiences have been nothing but great. You're doing it wrong if you're not with The Cooperators. I had physio for several months after one of my accidents, paired with massage and acupuncture - all covered by my claim, and never once did I have an issue with anything. They're fabulous. I was with Aviva years and years ago, and they were the absolute worst company I've ever had to deal with in my life. Had another not-at-fault when I was 18 - pizza delivery man hit me going 80 in a 40, and HE GOT 0% AT FAULT, and I had to take the hit - literally! When he caused the accident! I even had viable witnesses that they deemed unfit to testify.... I was livid. As soon as they closed that claim, I moved to The Cooperators, and they've been fantastic ever since. I recently got life insurance through them, and will be buying my first house and insuring it with them this year. Don't go anywhere else but Cooperators - but especially never ever ever use Aviva. Unless you want to be called a liar and get blamed for something you didn't do, just because you're an 18 year old female and the pizza dude was a 50+ year old man. (I'm still bitter, can you tell?)

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Useless

by Abac on Apr 16, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

We were rear ended (no fault of ours )by someone with cooperator insurance. I use someone else for insurance. So to start with i have 2 children involved, who's car seats needed to be replaced ( no injures to them thankfully) . warning to all they will not fully replace your car seats they will give you about 50% the cost of new back. At the cost of car seats that was a very expensive cost we had to foot ourselves. Our vehicle was an older vehicle they decided it was not worth repairing . while they did give us a fair settlement on the cost of the vehicle they towed it the next day but it took over a week to get our money after they had said 2-3 days . also would not provide us with a rental vehicle making it nearly impossible for a family of 4 to shop for a new vehicle , my children missed nearly 2 weeks of school, sports and activities as there was no way to get them there . my husband had to taxi or pay to get rides to work . overall they had no interest in helping us and cost us a lot of money for a accident that was not our fault .

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Horrible Claim service

by Ihateco-op on Mar 23, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

I had a great experience getting my account set up everything was very easy and they took care of most of it.
Now making my first every claim and it is unbelievable how different the services is. By different I mean bad. The responses take days or weeks. I try over and over to get a hold of them they don't pick up there phone. I will even email stating when I will call and still can't get a hold of the correct person. They owe me money for storage and I have asked at least 5 times about that and every time literally answer all my other questions and ignore that. Now I am currently filing a complaint and even they haven't gotten back to me and it has been almost a week.
Horrible service if they owe you money would not suggest this company to anybody

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Horrible company

by Phat_J on Mar 2, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

Hello. This is a quick summary of my experience: they are liars, incompetent, they dodge responsibility aka "pass the buck," overcharge, are undertrained, and they mislead. Here are the details: I boycott Cooperators, and tell everyone I know not to use this company. I shudder every time I see the name. They do not need any more customers until they can fix their fundamental issues. I signed up using a preferred rate through college as an alumnus. All of a sudden, my policy got changed without my authorization about a year later, so I called to inquire. I was told they no longer support the school alumni... then I was told Cooperators never supported that particular college alumni. I asked how is that possible when I had signed up my policy because of that? I was then threatened to be "charged back" the difference over the length of time I was "saving" money under the "wrong" policy!! It was constant phone tag, misinformation, and promises of calls back which never happened in my attempt to resolve this. In the meantime, I was looking for another company to switch to, and someone supportive and understanding was able to keep me with Cooperators, in spite of being overcharged. It was not worth any more of my personal time to be calling and calling to get someone to resolve my original issue. AND on top of that, I inquired what the 13D glass endorsement entails. The lady nonchalantly tells me it covers all the glass on my car, which is 100% incorrect (see part 2 below). These people need to be trained better. I am willing to bet there are many, possibly hundreds or thousands of their customers under incorrect coverage. So part 2. Around March/April 2016, I inquired on what "13D limited glass coverage" entails, as it appeared on my policy. I was informed it included glass but no windshield coverage. I specifically asked if rocks through glass, other than through windshield, were included. I was told yes. I asked if I had this coverage on my plan, I was told yes. This made sense to me, as from my VIN, it should show I have a moonroof, and that coverage would be beneficial to me from the start. A friend of mine had a rock through her glass during springtime and claimed through insurance. I wanted to ensure I had the same coverage in case it happened to me. Sure enough, months later, it did. Now I call to make a claim, and I'm informed I do not have this coverage. They mentioned that it's "rare" that people opt for glass coverage... I find that hard to believe that a moonroof on a car is "rare." I was informed that comprehensive claims for glass are covered if it was in the act of theft, weather, or vandalism. If I had have known this prior, and that my roof glass would NOT be covered because of a rock, I could have lied and said it was vandalism/a falling tree branch/some kid/etc. I chose to be HONEST and I got screwed over, due to their incompetence setting up my policy and wrongly answering my questions. I had them pull my recorded call history to verify what was said in the previous calls. Of course, they claimed that they had done no wrong and now I'm on the hook for repairs ($1500 for the new part, plus labor). I asked to hear my own calls. They tell me I need a lawyer for that!! Absolutely absurd. A supervisor tells me I was supposed to pay a certain amount more every month to have this glass coverage, so I offered to pay the difference over the months I've had the plan, plus the deductible to fix the glass. I thought it was a fair deal considering how I was treated up to this point. Nope, they refused. Wouldn't budge at all. I cancelled with them as soon as I could. I paid these people for over a year, had this terrible experience. They need to be set straight or put out of business. An absolute disgrace.

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Penalized for cancelling

by Disappointed on Jan 11, 2017
1 out of 5 stars

I had been with Co-operators since I was 18, twenty years later I move and ask to cancel my home insurance, it was agreed but apparently not noted in the call centre. I called back a couple months later when I realized payments had not stopped. Not only was I not offered my payments back I was penalized for cancelling the insurance after the said date. I argued that I had already cancelled and customer service did not oblige. I am normally very patient and loyal but I will be switching insurance companies. This does not please me by any means.

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Huge Disappointment

by rolandpei on Dec 22, 2016
1 out of 5 stars

So I had been with Cooperators for some time and was considered an A-list driver (no previous records etc) and also had my home policy with them. Before I begin, I should also note that I received a call from a sales person about 6 months prior to upsell me on 'extra' accident insurance. The premium was so negligible - like 11$/year or something silly that I went for it. The context of the insurance was in the case of an accident - I would be given extra time and rental insurance. I cannot remember the numbers but it was something to the effect of - typically I would have $500 to cover the cost of a rental, and this upsell would be somewhere in the vicinity of $1200-1500. Easy I thought. Here is where it gets interesting.... fast forward 6 months or so later, and my wife and kids are struck head on by a driver who was texting on a highway. Everyone was ok, but I immediately got a call from an agent reassuring me that I could get a rental immediately and she even noted that I had the 'extra' insurance...yay for me. So we get a van, and while I am awaiting the status of my damaged van - say about 3 days, I start to get phone calls. "Has the adjuster let you know the status of the van?" ....me - "nothing yet" this goes on for 3 more consecutive days, but all the while I think - no big deal... this car is costing $35/day and I am nowhere near that, as I am only a few days in. So, my Math tells me I am not even dipping much farther than $100 of the $1200-$1500 available. By the next week, I got a call again and I began to grow concerned, so I asked what the deal was. The response was that once my damaged van was considered written off I had 24 hours to return the rental, as the company sends a settlement cheque out that day. Wait - 24 HOURS? What? I don't even have a replacement van yet? How does that even make sense? Well, apparently it does to them. Many, many phone calls to supervisors etc. etc. and I finally get to someone who is only interested in telling me the policy...to which I debate that it is impossible for me to drive to work in a cheque that is in the mail. Long story short, I was 'given' a few extra days since there were not even any vehicles to pick from in my region (car lots were out of stock on minivans if you can believe that) I was incensed, and have since taken my home and auto policies elsewhere. Not that many of the others are much better - I just could not stand the way I was treated. Hope you find this useful when making a selection.

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6 month and nothing

by Simon Claim#1072658 on Dec 9, 2016
1 out of 5 stars

I have had an accident with one of cooperator client, wish i was also at the time one of their client. It now has been over 6 month an had to file a claim in court. I receive a default jugement and still can't get my payment. Now i have to go thru the next step with is a cease of their bank account.
like seriously cooperator, start beeing an honest business and make up you name.
the only good thing i can say about this compagnie is that they never miss taking a payment of my bank account each month. Thank you to the finance team!!!!
Simon CLAIM #1072xxx

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