Insurer policy-transfer error leaves customer unknowingly uninsured
A customer who called State Farm to transfer insurance coverage from two traded-in vehicles to two newly purchased trucks discovered, only when renewing vehicle tags six months later, that the transfer was never properly completed, leaving both new trucks uninsured the entire time despite continuous premium payments. The customer now faces DMV fines for a lapse caused entirely by the insurer's internal processing error.
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