Miscellaneous

Progressive Field: This is Cleveland

By E L Eversman

Progressive announced last Saturday that it will pay 57.6 million over the next 16 years for the right to rename the Cleveland Indians home, currently called Jacobs Field, to Progressive Field. Progressive Field, New Home of the Cleveland Indians

Perhaps this explains the vicious job cuts at Progressive the Thursday before Thanksgiving. The P had to find that $3.6 million a year to get the company’s name up on a sports field, and the money just had to come from somewhere. Who needed those employees anyway? They just suck up the profits, and, besides, cutting them loose right before Thanksgiving and all the other holidays keeps the money in the company coffers so it can be spent on important things; instead of bonuses and tiresome, non-productive things like, hmmm… how about insurance? Now, paying to have your company name on a sports field — that really means something, and we can corporate-speak it as “value added”.

And I was so hoping Progressive would earmark some of that money to train and educate their employees about the true legal requirements insurers owe consumers in their respective states — rather than just letting them make up denials of claims based on misstatements of a state’s law. Let’s hope the company at least springs for some training for Heather Hinkley so this “claims specialist” and Progressive won’t look quite so idiotic by misstating a state’s insurance law.

Full post as published by AutoMuse on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).