Fireman's Fund Insurance Reviews

Pros

Exceptional team workers who are talented, personable, and dedicated. Work life balance was encouraged and supported by management and team members. There are also opportunities to expand careers to other Fireman's Fund affiliates or the the parent company, Allianz.

Cons

The annual rounds of layoffs create unnecessary stress and detract from peoples' ability to focus on growing the core business.

Advice to Senior Management

The management team is personable and very approachable. Keep this up. It is valuable and motivating to employees to have this level of connection.

Pros

Pays well, good benefits, good stock plan, great co-workers, towards the end when Fireman's Fund became unprofitable, management could not be trusted.

Cons

Fireman's Fund is owned by the German Company Allianz. Fireman's Fund has not been doing well the last several years. Fireman's Fund is going through major restructuring. Not only that, but I believe the new managers tended to be somewhat deceitful in telling us what was going on, and what they expected because they wanted us to read the writing on the wall.They are making life miserable to its employees to force them to leave. Fireman's Fund used to be a good place to work, but I would not recommend it at this juncture until they get their act together.

Advice to Senior Management

The voluntary retirement was a decent package to those over 55, but management needs to be more straightforward to its employees. Life does not need to be made miserable to those still there. Needs to be less politics in the workplace. Stick to the plan, and bring in more competent management, and care about its employees.

Pros

Good people. Nice benefits and work life balance. Good freedom and true employee first culture. Great history. Hope they survive

Cons

Management seems to spend all it's resources making changes.... There is no consistency and the company is viewed as hopeless to our brokers...

Advice to Senior Management

Do more to retain the talent that could make this place profitable. There has been a horrible brain drain in the field and there is a mismatch of expertise and à lack of motivation to execute in people that are left.

Pros

401k and benefits, but not much else

Cons

In one word, management. Middle management, senior "leadership" or whatever...there is no leadership. There seems to be no accountability for any of the management. I will atest to the post where management will fabricate things to "set up" a good employee for termination...have seen this occur 3 times in the last 6months. Hard work is seldom rewarded, let alone acknowledged.

Advice to Senior Management

FFIC used to be a good, positive place to work. Management should be re-evaluated accross the board, the company needs to do some serious house cleaning across the board

Pros

There are none except for 401k match.

Cons

Very inept management with few morals in place. On SEVERAL ocassions, I saw FFIC take highly rated employees (who worked virutally and in the NYC office) and fabricate things so that they could set them up for termination. Reprehensible. How Lori Fouche, and ALLIANZ for that matter, could allow this is beyond me. Allianz should ditch this company since it only brings their name DOWN!

Advice to Senior Management

Lori Fouche should not be leading this company. She does not have the ability to make decisions. She rarely can make decisions.

Pros

flexible work time, 401K, lots of smart people work there, work place

Cons

constant change of senior leadership, extremely political, petty behavior, most people in for themselves, lack of culture

Advice to Senior Management

stop constant change, get rid of leaders always out to find out what is wrong and lay off people instead of focusing on positives

Pros

Great Benefits, Great People, Decent advancement opportunities

Cons

Inconsistent leadership over the past several decades. IT is a mess and very outdated.

Advice to Senior Management

Fix the IT issues now.

Pros

Good benefits and perks like medical, dental, 401K, and more as well as onsite gym, cafeteria, fitness/wellness program and dry cleaner in our location. Good training and education program. The Heritage Program - we have a strong history to be proud of. The passion of most of the employees is wonderful.

Cons

Some technology limitations to overcome. Shift in managment can be difficult.

Advice to Senior Management

Trust in the good intent of your employees - we are passionate about the company and want to succeed. It is too soon to "approve/disapprove" of Lori Fouche's leadership.

Pros

it was a bigger company that bought us out, looking at a good payoff and opportunity for growth in our division

Cons

we did not get any kind of payout or future profit sharing. we were told our stock options were worthless, and quit asking about it

Pros

Some very good, hard working employees on the front line. Good benefits and salary structure

Cons

Senior Management says one thing and then they do another. There is no "Work-Life Balance". Goals and guidelines are not reasonable. Too much emphasis on QA scores and metrics. Managers would discount an adjuster's results if they did not like the adjuster and overlook the results of others if they were well liked. Too much politics and too many incompetent people in leadership roles. They forgot that the the bottom line should be handling claims. Too many meetings and new "programs or ininiatives".

Advice to Senior Management

Back to basics. have someone look at the larger properties before you write the policy. Spend some money on pre-loss evaluations and inspections. This will save you millions in the long run.