Tampa – Ralph Jeff State Farm Insurance
When you’re sitting at home worrying about the mounting pile of bills to pay, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture. Fact is, just as you’re in a new world of hurt, there are other people hurting as well. In this case, the people are the inventors in the insurance industry. They all bought shares in these big corporations when the prices were high, never thinking that the world could suddenly turn sour. Although it’s a mutual insurance company, let’s take State Farm as an example of what’s happening across the industry. This is one of the biggest insurance companies in the US and it’s just turned in an operating loss of $542 million for 2008. Its net worth just dropped a whole 16%. Now, you have to understand this company did not get caught up in mortgages of any prime. There were no securitised thises or derivative thats. This company has just been caught in the general collapse of stock exchange values. To understand, we need to look at how insurance companies work. They charge most policy holders with a vehicle or a home a monthly premium. This brings in a small mountain of cash every month. That money is invested until it’s needed to pay out on claims. Some goes into fixed-income products. The rest goes into shares. As you may have noticed, the Dow and other stock exchange indexes have been in free-fall. The result is that State Farm has lost the capital value of the investments and, in many cases, no longer receives any income as interest or dividends. This might have been manageable except for this little thing called global warming that no-one believes causes hurricanes and other weather catastrophes. The last two years have seen an big increase in weather-damage claims. Put the loss of investment income and the unexpected rise in claims together and you turn a $5.46 billion profit in 2007 into a loss in 2008. Should this make you worry? Well, look at it this way. The insurance industry is suddenly making a loss. Shareholders in general and the policy holders in State Farm are not happy. Senior officers of the companies want their bonuses. The for-profit companies are tempted to raise the premiums across the board to get their earnings back into profit. Except with a recession threatening to turn into a depression, that’s not going to work. Make the policies unaffordable and people stop buying. That’s why State Farms just dropped its auto insurance rates in Georgia by an average of 1.5%. For the record, this means the current premiums are 12% lower than five years ago. Since State Farms insures around one quarter of all vehicles on Georgia’s roads, this is a good deal. So the next time you’re shopping round for a cheap car insurance policy, you may be pleasantly surprised that the premium rates from an increasing number of insurers have fallen in other states. The next bill may not be quite as painful as you fear.
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December 26th, 2009 at 11:32 am
State Farm is a great company to work for. As you know they are the top auto insurance company in the nation, therefore the company is in a stable financial position.
To become an agent at State Farm you need a bachelors degree, most likely in Business Administration. Most agents start out as Licensed Staff, meaning they work for an agent to learn about the company, procedures, sales and they take care of licensing requirements in their state. Then you discuss becoming a Trainee agent with the Agency Field Office in your region.
As a Trainee Agent you will train side by side with a current State Farm Agent, often a retiring agent. When that agent leaves you open your own office and the company alots you some of the clients of your retiring agent or other retiring agents.
I think becoming a State Farm agent is rewarding and has a secure future. Today, State Farm has a strong hold on the auto insurance and personal lines fire business in the United States, but new State Farm agents are encouraged to sell Life, Health and Financial services such as long term care policies so you will need to be licensed in all of those areas, which you can probably take care of while you are working as Agent Staff. Hope that helps
December 26th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
depends on how you open it.
sole propriotor if you merely sign a brokers agreement with them as yourself. Then you are merley in your own business as a broker for them
If you went into business with someone else in the office you would be a partnership ( depending on the agreement as to what type), if you incorporated and had that corporation owning the business where you had a broker relationship though that corporation, then you would be a corporation.
State Farm would have all those types as agencies within thier broker agents. What you left out was an employee, if the agency was actually owed by state farm itself you would merely be an employee
December 26th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Sure, with ANY insurance company, you're going to have complaints.
However.
By a WIDE margin, State Farm insures more homes in the United States than ANY other insurance company. Also, they have the absolutely LOWEST ratio, of upheld insurance complaints, combined, with all the state insurance commissioners (from AM Best's Review).
So sure, if you have 100 houses in a neighborhood, and 98 of them are insured with State Farm, one with Nationwide, one with Allstate, and ONE of those claims gets denied, it's most likely going to be the State Farm one. But, if it's denied because they ALREADY paid for the roof in June, and the homeowner didn't replace it, well, that's VALID.
So . . . you have to look deeper, if you want a FAIR answer to that. OH, and I am not now, and never have been, a State Farm agent. But my personal homeowners insurance, IS with State Farm – and that should tell you something.
December 26th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
I suggest you locate a nearby car insurance agent to help. Since I live in South Carolina I can't recommend anyone in New Mexico, but here is an website that can help you. http://www.easyautoinsuranceguide.com/New-Mexico-Car-Insurance.html
Hope it works out
December 27th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
What country are you from and how many times have they been bombed? That could be a good factor. Do you return to that country alot?
December 28th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
All homeowners policies give you the option to add extra coverage for furs, jewelry, etc etc.
If you don't have specific jewelry coverage it probably won't cover anything unless it was stolen from your home.
December 28th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
I have USAA and they will cover it. So someone as big as State Farm should. Good Luck
December 29th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I just got a ticket for speeding and he said Points are what raise the insurance but he was a rookie.
December 29th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
You need to send the written complaint to your state insurance department, including a copy of the declination letter from State Farm.