State Farm Insurance headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois.

A State Farm executive was fired after being caught on video making disparaging comments about homeowners impacted by the LA wildfires and ‘inaccurate’ assertions about the company’s hiring practices.

The executive is Haden Kirkpatrick, State Farm Mutual’s vice president for innovation and venture capital, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the video recorded during a Tinder date in late January that he now believes was a setup, Kirkpatrick is heard saying homes should not have been built in the Pacific Palisades but people wanted “natural areas around them for their ego.”

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Joe Toppe serves as managing editor of PropertyCasualty360.com. Joe is also a father of three, an author, and longtime lover of baseball.

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