Absolutely terrible customer service! No respect to the customers, discriminating attitude.
I am deeply disappointed with the customer service provided by The David Agency agency, I feel very frustrated, neglected, unappreciated and even discriminated by their agent Cindy Mahoney.
Let me start from the very beginning. Our moving company has been The David Agency's loyal customer since 2013 and we still currently have cargo insurance through their agency, workers' compensation coverage and we used to have general liability insurance till December 12, the date we found out our GL insurance was canceled!
The reason insurance carrier canceled our policy was because the payments were not being made, however when I made the down payment for our GL policy on October 23, I filled out the EFT form and I asked Cindy's assistant Stephanie Barsotti to set up automatic payments directly from our business account. This is the way we have been paying for our cargo insurance since May this year.
For some reason automatic payments were never set up, we were only charged the down payment from the card I entered in EFT form Stephanie emailed me. We moved to California in beginning of December this year (however we still continue our business operations in Chicago). Unfortunately for me I did not have too much time to sort out my mail due to this moving hassle and being a busy mom of 2 kids. I only noticed the intent of cancellation letter 2 months later after the coverage was binded.
What remains unclear to me is that why our agent, Cindy Mahoney or any of her ever changing multiple assistants (Cindy stopped communicating with us recently completely and I was always dealing either with Brandy Seale or Stephanie Barsotti or somebody else) ever cared to pick up a phone or shoot us a quick email, find a minute in their busy everyday schedule to call me or my husband and let us know "Hey guys, why aren't you making payments for your insurance? Please make sure you send them a check, otherwise your insurance will be canceled". Right? Is it that difficult? Cindy claimed we received an outstanding customer service for the last 2.5 years. This is not what great customer service is about. I used to work in an insurance agency myself for a couple of years and I know it is a regular practice for any insurance agent to call their customer if they receive this kind of cancellation notice and make them AWARE.
By the way we never missed any of our insurance payments since 2013 when we started working with their agency. And it is in our best interest to keep our insurance current because our license status depends on it. Right now our moving license is suspended and we do not even have right to operate as a household goods mover! This all happened because of the lack of customer service on your part and a terrible mistake and negligence of one of your assistants . This license cost us a lot of money and 1.5 years of legal action with courts and attorneys which was ruined by a lack of communication and customer service on the David Agency's part.
Not only we never received any kind of apology from anyone in the agency. I was blamed by Cindy Mahoney it was totally my fault that the insurance was canceled. She mentioned that this is what happens to their customers who do not make payments for their insurance. Despite the fact that we made 20% down payment for the insurance, we received the letter from their finance company which stated that we owed them the full annual premium for our insurance even though insurance was canceled! Awesome!
I addressed my question to Cindy in regards to our down payment and if the down payment could be applied towards two months installments we missed paying. She ignored my email. When I called their office, she said she could not understand why I kept calling them and complaining. She advised me to call insurance company directly and address my questions to them directly. What a great response from an agent claiming they provide a great customer service.
She also said she had thousand of other customers and absolutely had no time to talk to me. When I asked why I am less important than the rest of 1000 clients, she told me that she had clients who pay $50,000 for their insurance and this way she let me understand that the more customer pays the more important they are. How nice! What a wonderful attitude! I am sure this kind of attitude is not going to take this agency too far in terms of business success.
Please stay away and find an agent who really cares about their customers and will appreciate your business. This agency cares about nothing but your money!!! read more