The Personal Insurance Home Insurance Reviews

I own my house for more than 25 years. Never had a claim. Without putting too much information here, I've made my first claim a few weeks ago. At this point, the adjuster (very polite) is trying to find loopholes on how to reject the claim. The amount claimed is really small, a few thousands of dollars when my deduction is fairly high. Almost not even worth doing it. It seems that they put all their resources on how to reject my claim. I pay over 6k a year on my home/car/bike just to find out that I'm not insured. I will move on to a reputable company. YES - their policy is a bit cheaper but at the end... are you really insured?

So, you are looking for Ins. Look else where. My home was broken into, March last year. Dealing with this Insurer has been a very bad experience. Feels like I have been treated like Trailer Trash. No offense use to own one myself. In my opinion if my house was paid off and I had 200K $ in my account I would not be here. When you talk to them it seams like they feel everyone is out to fraud them. That is not me, it is them. They send this person out to take my Schedule of Loss, during this I tell them of the 4,250$ speaker cables taken, she says like sure you have 4,250$ speaker cables, produce receipt, then she says who buys 4,250$ speaker cables, I respond the person who can afford the 8,000$ set. Understand we are talking about a very expensive system in a moderate priced home. I produce receipts, boxes, manuals, pictures, all not good enough, must show money coming out of account. Okay fine, give all ask for papers. Then they say, I may have to take Lie Detect Test (at best 85% accurate, does this mean they don't pay 15% of claims+) nice angle for them. All the way though this process they are constantly throwing little insults at me as if I am trying to fraud them. Every time they say something to me on the phone that I feel is not right I call a lawyer, phone them back, they say we didn't say that. Tell them what the lawyer said, they say he didn't say that. (deal with these guys only by e-mail, at first they will say you can't, it was only when started to treat them like they treated me did they only wanted to deal with me by e-mail ) Then they say you can't talk to a lawyer, if you do then we can't talk to you we have to deal with him (well no, I can talk to a lawyer, I can't hire a lawyer then talk to them. It is all half truths with these guy's). Six months into my claim I find they have done a credit search that is when in my opinion that they wanted me to get or feel like I require a lawyer. (One lawyer said that is only because they want me using up my savings now that they know this will aid them when it comes time to pay meaning you will be more likely willing to except cash value instead of replacement value, about a 50% savings to them, like praying on the weak, do not be taken by this tactic) Question every thing they say, it all has an angle or agenda. This company in my opinion is all about how can we get out of paying by any angle possible. When they say don't do something, question it, it is likely in your best interest to do just the opposite, especially after they turn off the recorder and talk to you like they are your buddy and they are only looking after your best interest all they want is your money and to keep it. 500 words later all I can say is if you are with them leave them before you need them. If you are not don't no matter how much you may save. Lower than 1 star.

I have sent many many reminders about our claims and the subsistence money for me and my family. All other insurers call everyday to find what's going on and the welfare of the family and kids in this situation. They pay out immediately and booked accommodations for the family and kids. They paid every two weeks 2500 for the living expenses. I have never received any money than the 5000 initially received 75 days before and that is long gone. I requested many many times to take care of us in this situation- the whole world is taking care of the Fort Mac evacuees EXCEPT the Personal Insurance. I am cursing The Personal and Stephen F. from the bottom of my heart and my whole family is calling him a Big Cheat .
We made many requests and provided many documentary evidences but no money is coming. Why is it? Is it for this treatment I switched the company?. The contractor arranged by The Personal are not showing up properly and the project manager shuttles every Friday through Sunday in lloyd minister. Many works are pending. How can we bring our Family here??

Why are they like this? Don't they have heart? Don't they have children and family? What advantage they have by making us Suffer?

Not sure if this feedback will at least have an effect? We committed sins in our life to get an adjuster from The Personal who doesn't understand the family- down with him- let God take care for The Personal's sins.

I sent an email to the CEO, Sylvie as well about what the adjuster has done to us till now.

been insured with the personal for 25 years. home and 2 automobiles.Had water damage from a copper pipe fitting that dripped behind a wall and down through the finished basement ceiling onto the carpeted floor. called the personal thinking that after all these years of not one claim against my policy and faithful on time payment the would help me out. Wrong!!! they send out an adjuster with a man from an emergency restoration clean up company, take some pictures and tell me not to do anything because there could be mold now. they tell me to tarp off the room until the so called mold can be removed by specialists. 1 week goes by no help from the personal. 2 weeks go by no help from the personal. In the third week they finally actually take my call just to find out they are denying my claim because in their opinion I should have done my due diligence and thoroughly inspected my home to ensure all things are in good working order on a daily basis. they told me to contact the plumber from 25 years ago a make a claim against him. there was never any mold when the adjuster made the site visit but after 3 weeks of taking his advice of tarping off the room mold had set in. mentioned this to the adjuster but he didn't care. also advised him that over the last quarter century I have probably paid them in access of $50,000 with no claims, again he didn't care. very disappointed with this company as I felt I was a faithful customer. My lawyer said I could make a case about the miss directed advice about the mold but this meant spending more money, repairing the damage to my home cost enough.Do yourself a favor and get quotes elsewhere. they are only in it to take your money , not to help you.

So we had a flood in our house from a toilet upstairs in the end of August.
It is now December and I am still waiting for my house to be fixed :(
Also when I complained about the workmanship my adjuster said that there was a clause in my insurance that prevented the workers from fixing the house! The walls are all crooked and they will only replace the countertop in the kitchen that was damaged not the whole counter top as the countertop that was damaged was the breakfast bar. And of course I could not find an absolute match so now I will have miss matched counters! Worst company ever for customer service as I can not actually speak to them - I have to go through the adjuster!
Also when the claim was first filed they tried to tell me it was a ground water claim where I would only get $10,000 not the full value of what it should have been - had to fight for that!

took so much time to get quote

I have the account set up with login id and password. But their web site wants me to call their 1800 number to connect with an agent to be able to log in. I am not a new user and have logged in before several times with same credentials! When I call them, there's no one to take my call. So I can't login into my account during non business hours!! Unnecessarily they make things difficult for the customers!

We had flood since middle last year and the personal insurance haven't completed our claims up till today. The Adjuster is terrible and the worst I have ever seen. Flood is not what anyone want to experience and aside the trauma and the stress from that, working with this useless adjuster assigned our file is the worst thing and the worst person anyone can have. Since years we have been with personal insurance, this is our first claim and I must say, it is a terrible experience. Up until this moment, our claim has not been concluded and our adjuster available. Communication with this adjuster is terrible and frustrating. We called several times and left messages but she hadly return our calls. We sent email and no response. Even when she promised to call or send email, that didn't happen. She doesn't care what we are experiencing as a family. No empathy and I must say that is indeed inhumane. To worsen the experience, they have increased our premium since 3 months ago without completing our claim. I hope someone with professional ethics and good human relational skills can reach out to us. This is new year,we want to move past all this nonsense and get back to our normal life as a busy family.
Thanks.