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Mercury Insurance Company

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Underpaid and under appreciated - Claims Specialist II Mercury Insurance Company Employee Review

1.0
27 Mar 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Co-workers are cool. Benefits are decent. Christmas bonus every year. Overtime is available if needed.

Cons

We are overworked. Claims assignments are too high and company expectations are completely unrealistic. Too much work and not enough tools to get the work done. Every department is understaffed and the claims adjuster takes the fall for all the other departments not being able to stay caught up. People leave to work for other Companies because they pay more than Mercury. We have Managers that don't care and Divisional Managers who are so far away from the claims job that they keep coming up with more work for all the Supervisors to do. Then your Supervisor can't do their job or provide help for the adjusters. Guidewire is so slow it actually is worse than the prior claims system, and has lowered productivity. The ship is taking on too much water.

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Cons

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