State Farm Exec Fired After Comments About LA Wildfires, Saying Victims Homes We

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State Farm Exec Fired After Comments About LA Wildfires, Saying Victims Homes Were "For Their Ego"
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/state-farm-exec-fired-after-comments-about-la-wildfires-saying-victims-homes-were-their-ego

State Farm fired executive Haden Kirkpatrick after he was secretly recorded discussing the company’s emergency 22% rate hike for California homeowners affected by wildfires, according to the NY Post and the Los Angeles Times.

Kirkpatrick, believing he was on a Tinder date, said the hike was “kind of” orchestrated “but not in the way you would think,” according to a video published by James O’Keefe’s media company.

“Our people look at this and say, ‘S—, we’ve got like maybe $5 billion that we’re short if something happens,'” he said.

He continued: “We’ll go to the Department of Insurance and say, ‘We’re overexposed here, you have to let us catch up on [our] rates’. … He’ll say ‘Nah.’ And we’ll say, ‘OK, then we are going to cancel these policies.'"

State Farm did business in Los Angeles area well before the wildfire. Talk about unprofessional for Haden Kirkpatrick.

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Sounds like dude is well acquainted with things that are for his ego.  What kind of idiot would be dropping stuff like that on a date to begin with?