A top manager of the state was fired after he has been caught on a hidden camera that has made stunning and callous remarks about La Wildfire victims and at the same time reveals explosive claims about secret business maneuvers to increase rates for vulnerable policy holders.
Haden Kirkpatrick, vice -president of the state farm for innovation and risk capital, was secretly registered by the company 'a sort of' a huge speed increase for homeowners in California who faltered the destruction of the deadly fires of January.
The Undercover video – Published by O'Keefe Media Group – sees Kirkpatrick making cynical and cold -hearted statements about victims of the recent infernos who killed 29 people, destroyed more than 12,000 houses and only burned 57,000 hectares in Los Angeles County.
In the Bombshell images, Kirkpatrick rejected the suffering of victims and criticized Californians for building houses in fire-sensitive regions.
'People want to build in areas where they, such as nature reserves around them, want to have for their ego. But it's also the desert. And so it dries out like a Tinderbox.
“Areas such as where the Palisades are, houses should never have been built,” Kirkpatrick added without a shred of sympathy for the thousands that lost everything.
But the images went even further when Kirkpatrick admitted that forest fires such as those tore by Pacific Palisades and Altadena are completely predictable for insiders and that Staatsboerderij is actively maneuvering to escape the financial exposure to such disasters.
'Climate change pushes these seasons. If you are an insurance professional, it is predictable, “he said.
Haden Kirkpatrick, vice -president of the State Farm for Innovation and Risk Capital, was secretly recorded by the company 'A sort of' a huge rate increase in orchestrate for homeowners in California who falter the destruction of the deadly fires of January
In the Bombshell images, Kirkpatrick rejected the suffering of victims and criticized Californians for building houses in fire-sensitive regions
In the most amazing part of the secret admission, Kirkpatrick described how the state farm manipulated his request for an emergency of 22% to compensate for $ 7.9 billion to Wildfires
In the most amazing part of the secret admission, Kirkpatrick described how the state farm manipulated his request for a 22 percent emergency in California to compensate $ 7.9 billion in natural burn losses, and subsequently not to completely withdraw from the insurance market of California as regulators.
“Our people look at this and say: 'S ***, we have, like, maybe $ 5 billion that we are short when something happens,” Kirkpatrick knows how to explain a strategy.
“We go to the Department of Insurance and say,” We are overexposed here, you have to catch up with our rate. ” And if supervisors do not give us what we want, we will say, “Okay, we will cancel this policy.”
Kirkpatrick was also openly caught admitting explicit hiring prejudices, which revealed a strategic effort to reform the company's workforce along demographic lines while made shocking racial remarks.
“I want the workforce of 2040. So, I look for the demographic profile of America in 2040: more Spanish and Latinos,” said Kirkpatrick, who instructed his HR team to prioritize such racial and ethnic groups.
When asked if he would apply such preferences to his personal life, Kirkpatrick doubled.
'I am biased … away from my own kind [whites]”He said.
The fallout was fast. State Farm confirmed that Kirkpatrick was fired and in an official statement his comments from the video of 6 March as 'False' denounced.
Kirkpatrick rejected the suffering of victims and criticized Californians for building houses in fire -sensitive regions. 'People want to build in areas where they, such as nature reserves around them, want to have for their ego. But it's also the desert. And so it dries out like a tinder box
A view of flames on the mountain, seen from Topanga Canyon near Pacific Palisades in Topanga, Los Angeles, on January 9
A burnt vehicle remains destroyed near the rubble of houses on the beach in the Palisades Fire in Malibu, California
“These claims are inaccurate and in no way represent the views of Staatsboerderij,” said company spokesperson Sevag Sarkissian.
“They do not reflect our position with regard to the victims of this tragedy, the dedication we have demonstrated to the people in California, or our recruitment methods throughout the company.”
The California Department of Insurance, which has revised the rate request of the State Farm, has so far been shut down on the revelations.
Commissioner of the State Insurance Ricardo Lara has previously indicated resistance against the tariff requirements of the State Farm, and noted in a letter of 14 February that more information was needed before an increase was approved that the homeowners can press further.
But if the statements of Kirkpatrick do reflect the thinking in the state farm, supervisors and consumers can be confronted with a future where the largest California insurer is withdrawing or returns completely.
State Farm was the largest supplier of California from the insurance of homeowners who covered more than a million houses until it began to be drawn from a new policy insurance in 2023, stating a wildfire risk.
Dailymail.com has contacted State Farm for comments.
