{"id":2505,"date":"2025-09-27T13:24:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/progressive-faces-scrutiny-as-court-probes-adjusters-settlement-tactics\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T13:24:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:24:36","slug":"progressive-faces-scrutiny-as-court-probes-adjusters-settlement-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/progressive-faces-scrutiny-as-court-probes-adjusters-settlement-tactics\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive faces scrutiny as court probes adjuster&#8217;s settlement tactics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Winner, who held a Progressive auto policy with UIM coverage, was injured in a car accident in 2021. After bringing a personal injury lawsuit against the at-fault driver and entering settlement negotiations, Winner\u2019s attorney contacted Progressive to open a UIM claim. According to the court record, Progressive\u2019s adjuster, Margaret Mary Burke, then contacted the opposing attorney in the personal injury case \u2013 without Winner\u2019s or his lawyer\u2019s consent \u2013 and disclosed that Winner had been involved in a subsequent, unrelated car accident. Winner alleged this was an attempt to influence the settlement in a way that would limit Progressive\u2019s UIM exposure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winner, who held a Progressive auto policy with UIM coverage, was injured in a car accident in 2021. After bringing a personal injury lawsuit against the at-fault driver and entering settlement negotiations, Winner\u2019s attorney contacted Progressive to open a UIM claim. According to the court record, Progressive\u2019s adjuster, Margaret Mary Burke, then contacted the opposing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1525,852,410,1524,1162,1523,1201,1526],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-adjusters","tag-court","tag-faces","tag-probes","tag-progressive","tag-scrutiny","tag-settlement","tag-tactics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}