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Graeme P

1 reviews | Active since Jan 2022

17 Jun 2022, 11:31

Liberty do everything to avoid claim settlement

I am of the opinion that every staff member at Liberty has been instructed to avoid , delay postpone, duck and dive , deflect every claim or enquiry about a claim . If it was just one person you could put it down to incompetence but when every single person you speak to uses avoidance tactics you know it's a company culture. I startedy enquiry into a policy claim on the 13 June 2022 , and received the computer generated reply , I resent it , this time I get a reply from a Dikeledi Mdluli asking for an ID or policy number , I reply and refer her back to the original letter where ID and all details are recorded. No reply, I send again and get computer generic response , I resend and get a reply from an email signed CASE Liberty Service Team ( ya I know thats funny to anybody ever having dealt with Liberty) . So resend and get a reply from Taryn Subramary , and you guessed it , it asks for the ID number , at this stage the ID number must appear 5 times on the correspondence. Clearly I'm not going to get anywhere via email I will phone ( yes I hear you all laughing ) , I'm writing this at 11:13 am , I started at 08:30 , and I am no nearer anywhere closer than the 13th June . The so called urgent response number ( their description ) *** puts you into a series of computer menu responses with a message every minute advising you to use the web page for on-line assistance ( we all know where that gos) , twice after 30 minutes of holding the line gos dead , The third call I get a agent after going through the whole process I get told by Dumelo no she can't assist and puts me through to a man named Linda ( pronounced Leanda) , who takes down ID , date of birth and ses please hold , after about 12 minutes a woman ses can I help you , I reply Linda is helping , she ses no the call came to her but like really rudely , I inform her I've been in phone for 20 plus minutes with Linda , can she return me to that line , she ses she doesn't know how and puts phone down . I call back again this time the menu has a option 3 compliments and complaints ( why waste time with a compliment option , will never ever ever happen) , I get through to a Dumela ( yes I know that s greeting in Setswana, but it's also her name ) , I explain the whole long story , she ses she will put me through to Linda , after 12 minutes on hold she ses he is busy with another client he can call me back , I said highly unlikely , she said she will put me through to Linda's manager , I screen shot my phone it was another 20 minutes and the line went dead . So you can't get a claim through email , or telephonically , so how do you get this resolved . My next step is the ombudsman but you know they are actually from the same industry.

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Graeme P's update01 Aug 2022, 11:17
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My claim process started at the beginning of June , it's now August and I'm still being bounced around and being requested for the same documents and same information. If I have supp**** it less than 20 times I would be surprised. This deliberate delay / frustrate the claim process may seem trivial in a multi billion Rand company, but if they can delay a billion Rand's worth of claims per day the interest they earn covers your claim , so they will bounce you around for weeks / months on end . At today 2 months later over 100 emails with ID numbers etc supp**** over 20 if not 50 times , I got yet another email from a Tebogo requesting ID number . When I asked to speak directly to the claims department I was told no you can't there is no direct line you have to go through the consultant. Who will simply ask you again for ID number and go through the whole process again. There is no file opened so you can refer the generic agent to the file , you simply have to redo everything over and over again: a deliberate tactic to delay frustrate the process.