Cooperators Auto Insurance Reviews

Never a good experience. I was a loyal customer for nearly 20 years. I always felt I was paying a little more than I should be, but never really shopped around. So I decide to stop in one day and the receptionist tells me that no one would be able to see me. After looking around the only people present are the receptionist, two insurance reps and myself! I came back later at a preset time. I asked for a review of my rates and my insurance past, clean record and never made a claim. No change or savings on my rates. So I checked with CAA and received a savings of almost $30 a month on my auto insurance and $12 a month on my home, with better coverage! Cooperators answer to this was to charge me even more money for ending my policy not on my renewal date. Worst insurance company ever, find insurance anywhere else! They take more and give you nothing.

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.

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 .

Do not go with co-operators, they do not follow the legal rules for drivers. My husband has been with them for 20 years and as soon as a claim came up, they screwed us. I was accused of an accident that was the fault of the other driver and I has to be responsible for 50% and the other driver had 0%. The other drivers insurance didn't make him responsible and the other driver was responsible for this accident. I am with co-operators and I was screwed with 50% when I was not responsible for this accident. Also there no witnesses and no evidence suggesting that I am the person at-fault. The underwriters were rude. They hang up on you, they tell you nothing, they just assume it's your fault every time when there is NO evidence that you were at fault.

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.

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.

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

I was with this company for about 2 years. I was misled, lied to, overcharged, and threatened. Here we go:
I signed up using the Kanetix website, and got a good quote based on being a NAIT alumni.
About a year into the coverage, they decided to change my plan without my authorization. All of a sudden I get an email saying "here is your revised policy." I called to ask why this happened, they tell me I do not qualify for the previous rate, as I am not staff of NAIT school. I explained that I am a former student, not staff. They tell me they never had a plan for former students... I play an extensive game of phone tag to get this resolved, to no avail.
In the meantime Kanetix still quoted rates based on being a NAIT alumni, and listed Cooperators/Coseco (It has been corrected since). It was not worth my time to keep chasing them to correct their mistake, so I stayed with them. Also, in the process I was threatened to be charged back "what I should have been paying" for the erroneous coverage... Yeah, quality customer service right there.
This spring, I called to revise my policy and to ensure I had coverage for glass, as a friend had a problem with glass damage on her vehicle which her company would not cover, so I wanted to ensure I had coverage.
My policy listed "17d," which I inquired as to what that entails with Cooperators/Coseco via a phone call. The gentleman I spoke with explained that glass is covered through a comprehensive claim, except for the windshield. All was well for the time.
Recently, a rock went through my sunroof and I called to make my first claim. Replacement cost $1500+. I was told I do not have coverage!!
I provided many examples from online where I should be covered for this type of damage. Sited many resources including some from THEIR OWN WEBSITE. The lady I spoke with had the audacity to say "it's very rare anyone gets coverage for glass" Like I'm the only one out there with a glass moonroof??? They also told me that "coverage differs from each provider" umm for a specific feature on my coverage that all companies offer? That doesn't sound right.
Now I was led me on a wild goose chase to various other representatives up the chain. I spoke with someone who told me they would "review the recorded calls" of my conversation a few months ago regarding glass coverage. They come back and tell me a different situation than what I discussed with the guy. I asked to hear this recorded call, and was informed I needed a lawyer to do that!! Of course they can just cover their rear end like that.
So I made a proposal. Based on my poor experience with this company, either I pay the deductible of $250 to fix my roof plus the cost of the "correct" coverage difference over the past few months for glass (would have been about $45 give or take), AND I renew for another year,. Or, I flush them and go with someone else. They wouldn't play ball, so I canceled right then and there, and will tell everyone I know not to pick this insurance company. They even wanted to charge a cancellation fee!! No way that was happening.
Lessons learned:
- ALWAYS have a paper trail and RECORD your phone calls yourself when dealing with ANY insurance provider.
- ALWAYS get a second, third, or fourth opinion, and don't take one representatives word on what your coverage entails.
- Apparently, "17D Limited Glass" means something different depending on which provider you choose. Google various providers, and their definition of 17D, and you'll see what I mean.
- NEVER go with Cooperators/Coseco.

We are new immigrants. Approximately two months ago we asked for a quote for car insurance and we received a fair price from Co-operators insurance. Two agents from the company gave as the same price according to the documents that we provided (driving licenses from abroad, clear accident records and driving experience).
We were asked to provide them with Canadian driving license as soon as we receive one.
Once we did, we came to the office, BUT...this time the agent said that a mistake was made by both of the agents (!), and the price should be twice higher because, they do not accept experience from out of the country!!! This is a total breach of a contract.
I have never saw a company this unprofessional .
Why do we have to pay a double price if it was not the price we agreed on? Can they change the price in the middle of a contract???
We will never do business with them again. That is for sure!