Progressive Insurance Under Investigation for Spying in Church

It takes a lot for Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine — who is normally considered to be in the pocket of the insurance industry — to launch an apparently aggressive investigation of a major insurance company.  Now, however, even Oxendine has ordered a market conduct examination into recent allegations of invasion of privacy, fraud and other misdeeds by Progressive Insurance Co. for allegedly sending private investigators into a church confessional to spy on a couple who had filed suit against the company. Two private detectives for Progressive allegedly posed as a married couple wanting to join the church. They talked their way into a private confessional at a member’s home and recorded potentially embarrassing details from several people there. Progressive says it’s sorry.  More likely the company is sorry it got caught.

The Shigley Law Firm  represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases statewide in Georgia, and in other states subject to the multijurisdictional practice and pro hac vice rules in each state. Ken Shigley was designated as a “SuperLawyer” in Atlanta Magazine and one of the “Legal Elite” in Georgia Trend Magazine. He is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, Chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute and former chair of the Georgia Insurance Law Institute. He particularly focuses on cases arising from truck wrecks and accidents (tractor trailers truck wrecks, semi truck wrecks,18 wheeler truck wrecks, big rig truck wrecks, log truck wrecks, dump truck wrecks.