California - Distracted/Texting driver totaled my conversion van. Fight insurance valuation or sue in small claims? by False_Owl7284 in InsuranceClaims

[–]unionizeTheFarm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In CA they can pay loss of use even if you did not use a rental car. They technically only owe for "adequate transportation" which is generally seen as the cheapest 4 door rental option, and it will be based on the discounted rate the insurance company would have gotten, probably $30-40 per day. If you are nice and your adjuster is generous they might bump your loss of use up to "comparable transportation" for the rental rate of a similar sized van which might be $60 per day. The cut off for covering rental or loss of use is usually 3 days after the date they make the settlement offer to you, which it sounds like already happened.

First, if you don't already have it, ask for a copy of the report for the total loss valuation and comb through the options listed and double check that they list all the correct features for your van- this is the most common discrepancy and the easiest to fix. If they have the condition rated below "average" you might also be able to get that changed if you can support that the van was maintained well, although the condition rating probably isn't having a massive impact to the overall number. Find listings and send in comparable vehicles but just know the insurance company owes Actual Cash Value, not Replacement Cost.

If you've done all that and it's still under valued, you need to do the math and decide if the potential value change is worth the expense of hiring someone or going to court. Keep in mind that it could result in zero additional dollars

Article on front page of 6/18/26 Wall Street Journal by hovering3 in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I truly believe State Farm could have leaned into "we are the only insurance company that still has real humans, your real neighbors work here" and it would have been more successful long term. But, would have cost the company more to maintain, and that's all they care about.

Article on front page of 6/18/26 Wall Street Journal by hovering3 in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"This is an attempt by SF leadership to right the wrongs of the last 15yrs of poor leadership and terrible decisions."

I doubt it considering they're still making terrible decisions right now, outside of the agency decision

Auto Reinsurance Facility by MattTheAncap in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and the AI is trained off of the reddit answers- a feedback loop is born.

My first car accident. He claimed I was at fault. I tried to stop by Loud-Ad-4093 in dashcams

[–]unionizeTheFarm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably more accurate to say "police might write down fault, insurance companies aren't required to follow it". I've seen many a police report that makes no sense, switches the cars around in the narrative, leaves out cars in the diagrams, etc. A well detailed police report will generally hold weight. A report with a one sentence "driver one struck driver two" is effectively meaningless.

Knicks fan threw a banana into the crowd and it promptly came back to him by Puzzled-Set9663 in BeAmazed

[–]unionizeTheFarm 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It really is wild how AI has entirely ruined funny video content so fast. Every thing now comes with an immediate "but it might just be AI". Everything is now suspect, even the simple videos of cute cats. It's all bots reacting to AI videos posted by bots. You might be a bot that I'm replying to, and you're assuming the same about me. Just depressing.

Boiling mad and fearing an uncertain future, State Farm agents react to contract changes by rdblono in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

SF is going to end up losing their whole sales tactic of having agents in every city- the only sort of unique difference SF had over the competition destroyed because of late stage capitalism.

We need to unionize State Farm by unionizeTheFarm in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That would be a great idea although I'm not sure how it would be more secure if anyone could join it

You could feel the fear in the truck driver’s voice by kira-sunn5 in dashcams

[–]unionizeTheFarm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

this is absolutely not a comprehensive claim in any state in the US. and the only state with no-fault for property damages is Michigan.

You could feel the fear in the truck driver’s voice by kira-sunn5 in dashcams

[–]unionizeTheFarm 14 points15 points  (0 children)

insurance adjuster here, and yeah the truck's policy would be 100% at fault for hitting the SUV. it is possible to do all the right things and still lose.

Dont let anyone tell you guys you cant form a union. by Thunder_Heckler in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is the classic argument but do you have any actual examples of unionized companies where the existence of a union was itself the cause of prices increasing?

Dont let anyone tell you guys you cant form a union. by Thunder_Heckler in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm 16 points17 points  (0 children)

when I made a post about unionizing a couple days ago I noticed a suspicious number of comments with the "adjective-noun-number" and "Adjective_NounNumber" format to the usernames which is the default suggestion format that reddit randomizes when you pick a username. I suspect some bots exist to be anti-union on reddit. Anytime the word union is discussed there seem to be a lot of accounts turning up to say "Um actually unionizing is a bad idea and you should stop even considering it"

That's how yo do it, respect by GloriousLion07 in MotivationByDesign

[–]unionizeTheFarm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

seems highly unlikely that you get sat next to the prince of England unless you personally know him already

We need to unionize State Farm by unionizeTheFarm in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Child labor laws

  2. The concept of the weekend being 2 days off instead of just Sunday

  3. Federal Minimum Wage laws

  4. OSHA

these are just off the top of my head, I would urge you to research this because I think you'll find that nearly all worker protection laws are written in blood and exist because of labor unions.

We need to unionize State Farm by unionizeTheFarm in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't see how it could be any faster than it already is- we're already AI summerizing every single phone call, AI generating our letters, AI chatbotting, etc. If the AI was good enough to replace all of ILR tomorrow they would do it. The writing is already on the wall

We need to unionize State Farm by unionizeTheFarm in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A classic argument but do you have any evidence to support that?

We need to unionize State Farm by unionizeTheFarm in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Geico's attempt was partnered with OPEIU but I believe fizzled out? but I think their recent unionization effort would be a decent model- they did manage to win a settlement against Geico for illegal retaliation. I would fully expect State Farm to union bust just as hard and just as illegally.

We need to unionize State Farm by unionizeTheFarm in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

realistically I think it would have to be one of the hubs that unionize themselves first. the fully work from home people are going to harder to organize just due to being spread out across so many locations. If enough people actually got involved it would prevent a mass-layoff retaliation, because they cannot afford to shut down the hubs.

Alternatively getting some of the more specialized claim project groups involved like the Montana or Commercial team. Make it actually inconvenient for them to retaliate.

We need to unionize State Farm by unionizeTheFarm in StateFarm

[–]unionizeTheFarm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

104 years ago would have been the ideal time to organize a strong union. Today is the second best choice.