The Wild Life of an Allstate Agent!
June 27, 2009
Someone was kind enough to dig around in the databases and send us the answers to questions about Michele Linca.
It seems in April of 2002 she got divorced from Mircea Sandulescu.
It seems in September of 2007 she got divorced from Nicolae Linca.
But it seems in August of 2007 she met with Aaron Jay Goodrum at his apartment.
Here’s a page from the medical examining board about what happened.
This is really unfortunate and it is very good there was no serious or permanent injury but this sure is not what you associate with the life of an insurance agent, being tied to a radiologist’s bed and having your clothes cut off!
For whatever reason, she still keeps Linca’s name and she does have quite a few traffic infractions in Florida.
There’s also this blog and it may explain a few things, or maybe not?
Running Clock Rant: “Agency Relationship Survey”
June 23, 2009
Every year we get dozens of emails exhorting us to take the Agency Relationship Survey. Every year the participation drops a little more. Besides the fact that the survey interprets our frustration with the company as frustration with our managers (much the same way the ALI interprets customer frustration with the company as customer frustration with the Agency) – there is a more BASIC reason for the growing lack of participation.
This is what I hear on face to face, at conferences, at up-comm meetings, from agents: Although the company does occasionally address issues of processes, leadership and back office performance, they don’t actually want feedback on important issues of corporate decisions that go to the heart of agent/corporate relationships. Corporate doesn’t really care what its’ 13,000 (?) agents think about decisions that truly affect our ability to do business or a lot of issues that NAPAA attempts to address would not be issues. The expense to the company of administering the NAB under pretense addressing agent issues would not be necessary. The model of management vs work-force would no longer exist.
As the saying goes “two heads are better than one”. There are 13,000 heads who want to succeed, who work from the ground up, who interface directly with “the street” and who have good ideas and something to say. A majority of agents know that there are better ways to do business, and only need to look to IA’s to see that model working. We would like Allstate’s blessing and backing, as well as their hands-off where they are straddling the line of employee vs contractor relationships
Many realize that nothing will change where change is truly needed. Why waste time on the Agency Relationship Survey?
Running Clock Rant “Mail Fraud”
June 8, 2009
Ex-Allstate Employee Sentenced for Mail Fraud
May 29, 2009, Associated Press
A federal judge in Birmingham has sentenced a former Allstate Insurance Company employee to 12 months in prison for multiple counts of mail fraud. U.S. District Judge Inge Johnson sentenced 34-year-old Monica Marshall of Brighton Thursday. Marshall pleaded guilty to 11 counts of mail fraud.
Prosecutors said she admitted arranging to send more than $43,000 in reimbursement checks to three individuals who then paid her a kickback. Three others involved in the fraud pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy charges. Marshall, who must report to prison in Aug., was ordered to repay the money to Allstate.
Does anyone know if she was a company “hero”?
For those of you not aware of it, Allstate has a “Privacy Department.” It is their job to be sure you agents are not sending out stuff to pesky sites like Runningclock from your Alstar. There is a new initiative that is called AGENCY CONTENT MONITORING AND REMEDIATION PROCESS. It will begin June 1 2009. Oops by virtue of the fact I disclosed that I made an agent guilty of violating agency standards. George Orwell would be grinning about now.
Will this department have anything to say about this blog? I’ll bet this could get very interesting for Michele Linca and Aaron Jay Goodrum.
