Desjardins Insurance Auto Insurance Reviews

Friend had a claim with them. Awful service. Lowballed on the offer for their car. No return calls. Slow. Uninformed. Do yourself a favour, shop elsewhere!!! Terrible company..

After searching for a more comprehensive insurance program that included Home & Auto at a reasonable price I cancelled my Desjardins auto insurance effective May 1, 2015.
Unfortunately, they would not give me a formula detailing a cancellation charge and then made an unauthorized withdrawal from my bank for 30% of the remaining two and a half months of my contract!
I will never recommend or shop Desjardins because of what I call a shady, and underhanded process at that company.

My car was hit and run, after contacting the police I call Desjardins to start a claim. The first Rep I talked with told me that this was not covered under my police, out of fear of having my rates increased I did not file a claim. After learning my car should be a write off I filed a claim. The clams office called me 3 days after I submitted my claim at the end of her day, witch in Alberta is 2PM, she did not leave me a claims number. I called her back after receiving the voice mail and left a message. I waited the one businesses day NO phone call, I waited a SECOND business day NO phone call. I called back and left another message. I waited the one businesses day NO phone call, I called again and left another message. NO phone call. I called a 4th time, she answered the phone. I INTRODUCED MYSELF told her I was not given a claims number, and described the situation. Her words were "Oh your the Hit and Run girl, ya that wont be covered under your policy". I told her I have a name. I could go into more detail but basically she was INCREDIBLY RUDE, she didn't look up my information till I ASKED her too. I contacted there customer complaints department and told them my situation, SAME THING, they didn't care!!!!

To sum up, don't have insurance with this company. they Lack compassion, understanding and the ability to look at individual situations.
To rewrite the words of there president in the truth,
WE will not be there when the unexpected happens, you will not get to rest assured, we will not be there for you today the day of your accident, and diffidently not tomorrow.

I wish i saw the reviews for this company before insuring my car with them. I have only been insured for 3 months and within 3 months they have already screwed up payments and even cancelled my policy for no apparent reason. Ive gotten pulled over too but luckily that officer did not ask for insurance because how much trouble would i have gotten into if i was not covered. Ive brought this to the attention to someone from Dejardins and their excuse was, oh yes, even if it was cancelled you would still be insured.

They charged me fees on 3 occasions that were their fault and they are only willing to "WAIVE" back one fee. How is it considered a waive when you are really just fixing the mistake that YOU made. Waiving would be that theres a fee that was made in MY mistake and you are kind enough to waive it off as a one time thing.

Now my credit score is getting lower and lower because I requested an account change because I provided an empty account and they keep taking money out of this account after STATING THERE IS NO MONEY TO TAKE

>Been with these guys for 11 years(since I was a new driver/teen). At the time they were known as Certas Direct, they were bought out by Desjardins.
>At first I was getting a great rate when they were Certas. I think I was paying 150$/mth. and it even got as low as 110$/mth. when I switched vehicles.
>When I noticed things were getting weird was when Desjardins randomly sent me an insurance/ownership holder in the mail with a letter saying 'blah blah we own certas, you are our valued customer blah blah'. Not too long after i got my very first speeding ticket, and then one more later that year. When my policy was renewed my rate went from 110$/mth to 200$/mth. While I take full responsibility for my tickets, i dont think i should be paying 90$ extra every month for two measly tickets.
>years later i acquired another ticket. it skyrocketed to 275$/mth. Now I am in full panic mode. I called them and said 'listen guys, yes i sped. i get that. but 275$/mth is ridiculous. i am on the brink of selling my car and opting to just use public trans/bike.' they said 'no no no, we will lower it to 250$ a month in 3 months time.' i agreed.
>RECENTLY i got into an accident. it was the other drivers fault but there was no witnesses and the other driver lied on his police report. Because we had 'conflicting stories' the two insurance companies decided to make this a 50/50 split. I was assigned a moron of a service rep. She doesn't care nor take into account anything i say. what she says is what she says. To her there is no other option. its desjardins(gods) word. Get this...I put my car into a shop on a thursday, my agent said she'd call me later that night to talk about it. no call. next day, no call. i call her. voicemail. weekend goes by. no call. i call her, leave new voicemail, she calls me back. tells me three things 'just waiting for the quote from the mechanic and i will call you back. tuesday comes. no call. weds. no call. thurs no call. i call in. voicemail again. call mechanic shop and say 'what the hell is going on with my car?' apparntly they took it apart on tuesday and assessed everything and been waiting for my agent to call. i get angry and call my agent. voicemail. 'yea, my car has been in the shop since thursday and you havent been keeping me up to date and the quote has been ready since tuesday and now its thursday...7 days. i have kids and no vehicle. please call me back and take care of this. she calls me 20 minutes later(wow...so if i pull teeth and act like an @$$ they call back?). 'okay, the quote is 2400$, 800$ for parts and 1600$ for labour...' i say 1600 for labour huh? hmmm...its a fender bender. im not a moron. they are taking you for a run. 'oh no sir they are approved by us. they know what they are doing'. oh okay, so you are telling me it takes 21 hours to put on a front fender, a new bumper and a light? i can get that done myself in 4 hours. 2 hours with a buddy. now she is all silent and being cold. i say 'listen, you arent helping me at all. im getting royally screwed. i want to take my 50% of the money for the repair and do it myself because this is bull. well sir 50% of 2400 is 1200...but then we have to device 1200 by 2...which is 600...so you get 600. So let me get this right. the damage costs 2400...its a 50/50 accident so that means you pay 1200...but you are doing 50% of the 50% i am entitled too? so 600 out of 2400. so basically thats 75/25%. no sir you dont understand. no no i undestand perfectly, im getting SCREWED.

listen guys, do not deal with these guys ever. horrible horrible horrible customer care. they are so desensitized to your questions and concerns. they Do NOT CARE. i have been dealing with these guys for a long time and the only thing keeping me with them is the fact that my tickets and 50/50 accident cannot get me a good quote anywhere for the next 3 years. dont ever go with desjardins no matter how good the quote looks.

I had deer collision 12 days after purchasing my new car. Desjardin think they will repair the car even tho the damage is over 60% of the value of the car. Had to fight with them to get second estimate, claims people are rude, claim no value now that all my car warranties are voided, and they told me they already had their numbers so it didn't matter where I took it for a second opinion, they wouldn't look at the estimate. There is even frame damage that they want to repair.
Still fighting but that's the way I intend to go down. I paid for replacement value, and I will go to court instead of driving the hunk of junk if that's what they think.
Do yourself a favour and find another insurer.

My son recently purchased a new car. He called Desjardin and spoke with a rep over the phone. He gave all the information correctly as asked (and it was explained to him/us that the call was being recorded) to the agent. The quote was prepared for him at a cost of $3800.00 per year. He signed up and and took delivery of his new car the next day. 2 days later he received a call from an insurance investigator from Desjardin saying that he did not give all thei nformation requested and that his insurance was going to increase by $1300. He had supplied all that was asked and even asked them to review the recording. The increase was due to a speeding ticket he recevied for 10 kilometers over. It was declared at the time the quote was prepared. Funny thing is that they said that somehow the conversation was not recorded and that they have no proof that he had disclosed the ticket. He did as i was a witness. There response was, "OH well, either take it or look elsewhere." We contacted the Insurance Bureau of Canada, and as expected, they are useless. This company is a total ripoff and cannot be trusted. My son will stay with them for now until he can establish his driving history. Until then, BEWARE OF DESJARDIN. THEY ARE CROOKS.