Desjardins Insurance Auto Insurance Reviews

I've had much insurance and as I know if you have a good driving record every year your annual premium usually goes down and insurance would be cheaper except for Desjardins! Instead of awarding the good drivers they raise the cost to 60 dollars extra per month from paying 195 per month to 251 per month when it came to my renewal I've had no accidents or claims... Called another insurance and they were able to give me the coverage for 215 per month that a saving of over 500 a year... Never will I return as a customer of Desjardins. They need to learn to compete with their competitors and stop trying to take people's hard-working money... horrible just horrible rates. Anyone thinking of switching to this insurance company I advise you to try someone else!

I have been with them for one year. I'm a driver with 15 years experience, clean history, no accidents, no tickets. I shop and compare my insurance every year at renewal time. So I was astonished when I received the renewal from them - $430 more per year. When I called in to inquire why my rate increased so much, they said it was nothing specific to me and that they had to pay out a lot of fraudulent claims so everyone's rates went up. The guy on the phone sounded like he was reading off a script. When I compared the breakdown of the new premium to last year they substantially increased the liability portion and even the accident forgiveness endorsement went up from $60 a year to $100! What a ripoff! I searched online and found 7 other insurance companies who had a lower rate than Desjardins. Personally, I think what they do to lure in good drivers with clean history is they give you ridiculously low rate in the first year and then jack them at renewal hoping that you will stay and not bother with comparing other options. Or they want to force you to use their smartphone app to track your driving habits. Apparently, if you use it for a whole year you may save a bit of money at renewal time at the expense of personal privacy and them knowing where you are all the time. Sorry, no, next! So if you do get a crazy low rate with them online, just beware that they will likely jack it up a lot at renewal. Always shop and compare at renewal and have no loyalty to any insurance company. They're all the same!

Everything was great until I've got in a not-at-fault accident.

They refused to pay my repair ( scratched fender + right headlight + bent hood ) and wrote-off my car.

They offered me 1/2rd of the car value, quoting a similar garbage car found around Edmonton. I'm in Toronto, .

In the previous year I've replaced $2000+ worth of car parts: tires, shock absorbers, alternator, timing belt. When I've emailed the invoiced they increased my car value by $300 or so.

Not sure how other insurance companies behave in an accident, but definitely I don't want to hear of them anymore.

My 2 cents.

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.

I had my car stolen December 5th. I have left several messages for my adjuster and then his supervisor. To date not one return call from either the adjuster or the supervisor. I have called again today and was advised to escalate the matter to another department and should receive a call-back within 24 hours. Thank god we do not have our home insurance with them.

I called Desjardins after creating my on-line quote for our 2 cars. I had my quote printed out and in front of me. Basically I answered most of the questions over again with the agent (loosely referred to as an Agent) . She gave me a quote after randomly asking several questions (which were already answered on the quote that I had generated) but the quote was 200 and something higher than the quote that I had manually generated myself, however after double-checking all of my answers, we found that there was no differences other than the cost that she quoted. Somehow after mumbling her way through something, she came back with a slightly lower number and once again I explained that her number was still higher so there she goes again, asking me the same questions over again and then finally she get to a number that was $80 less than the quote that I got myself (without changing anything!). No complaining from me there! Then I was asked if I wanted their "adjusto" "thing" which would record our driving habits; it would knock off another 5% from our rates so I went for it. The only problem was, is that now she comes back with another number which was more than 95% of the quote which she just gave to me. I was becoming rather impatient at this point but I calmly explained how to reduce my quote by 5%. From that point onward she barely listened to me at all and denied haven given me the quote that I agued she had. Then I suggested that we just go back to the original quote and then proceed to lower it by 5% for the "adjusto" thing but then she came up with a different starting number altogether. At this point I figured that Desjardins was not a company that I wanted to deal with if their agent could not do basic arithmetic (most of which I thought was intentional).
She then hung up on me! Unbelievable! I thought about how a claim scenario might go with them and after reading some of the reviews on this site, I kind of get the gist of what it might have be like. I have no time for companies like Desjardins. Too bad, thought I was going to get a good deal on my car insurance!

Claim ajuster failed to return my call, or to talk to my garage. Refused to listen or accept the extended damage after my car was assessed by the aprasier. Whenever she called me, she told me my car rental was due and the insurance co. would not cover it. She ignored the fact and just left me face the problem on my own. Unbelievable attitude and arrogant.

Claims adjuster offered a settlement amount when our truck was stolen and asked us to consider the amount and get back to her by the end of the day. When I called back her voicemail said that she would be away on vacation for two weeks. The claim was very poorly handled and took a rediculously long period of time to finalize.