Our state reps – Dave Murzin, Clay Ford, Greg Evers and Ray Sansom – will all try to convince us that they accomplished great things during this year’s legislative session. However, they failed to address property insurance. Thank goodness, there is a St. Pete Times:
ast winter was the meanest season the Florida property insurance industry has ever faced. Gov. Charlie Crist asked three prominent lawyers to look into a class-action suit against the industry; a select committee of the Florida Senate spent two days slow-roasting executives from Nationwide, Allstate, Florida Farm Bureau and Hartford; and Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty began trying to shut Allstate down.
The allegations against the industry include collusion, price gouging, conspiracy and breaking state law.
But the Florida Legislature could turn all that anger and mistrust into some meaningful reforms, right? Turns out, property owners statewide are worse off than last year by many measures.
