Sun Sentinel reports: State Farm Florida Insurance Co. now wants a 67 percent average statewide property insurance rate increase, months after Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said he would reject the insurer’s…
Tag: Insurance
Legislature fails on insurance
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…
Report: Insurers fleece public
I love the St. Pete Times. Here is a report that it did on how the big insurance companies have ripped off their policyholders. The property insurance industry not only racked up…
Insurers may be sued
Miami Herald reports that Gov. Charlie Crist has appointed three high-powered lawyers to file a class-action lawsuit against the insurance industry on behalf of state residents. Crist said his legal office has…
Insurers have record profits
The Pensacola News Journal reports that insurers area worried about 2008 hurricane season. Allstate and the Hartford companies want major rate hikes that they claim are needed to get through the 2008…
Small victory in Insurance War
In the PNJ: The insurer agrees to lower its premiums an additional 2 percent — bringing the total cut since June to an average 9 percent — to comply with new laws…
State Farm, thanks for the memories
State Farm made $5.32 billion last year. Yet it “must” drop homeowner policies in our area. The insurance giant has over covered the Outzen home since 1986. Last Jan. they raised our…
Wernicke nails it
In his Sunday column (Carl Wernicke: Our real problem remains insurance ), Carl Wernicke nails it. Insurance is a much bigger issue than property taxes. The Insurance companies continue to make billions,…
Use taser for lower insurance rates
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State of the Union health insurance misfire
President Bush’s plan to help families and individuals pay for health insurance won’t work in Pensacola. In our area, it’s estimated 1 in every 5 residents are uninsured, or about 61,400. Nearly…
Legislature has property insurance plan
Key legislators reached a final compromise Sunday night on how to solve Florida’s property insurance woes.Full House and Senate will vote today on the plan. Private insurance companies: Private insurers, which cover…
Rubio calls for December insurance conference
Set for Dec. 4-6 Here is a quote from the letter House Speaker Mario Rubio sent out to incoming State House members: “The purpose of the conference is threefold. First, we want…
Future job for Holly possibly AHCA Secretary
Sources have revealed that the post for which local state Rep. Holly Benson is competing is Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration (ACHA). According to its website, ACHA “champions accessible,…
Insurance reform Bush-style
The Property and Casualty Insurance Reform Committee, led by Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings, will meet today in Tallahassee to finalize more than 50 recommendations. Here are few: Allowing homeowners without mortgages to…
Home insurance triples
Just got our home insurance premium notice from State Farm. It went from $3800 to $14,000!!!! If we don’t find a new carrier, our monthly insurance payments will exceed our mortgage payments….
Martini Night: Dem Studds was as bad as Foley
Last night: one Martini Night guest argued that Rep. Studds, a Democrat, had a similar scandal in 1983. Here are the facts:In 1983 Gerry Studds (D-MA) was excused of having sex with…
Doc may force patients to sign waivers
From St. Pete Times: The Florida Medical Association is asking its members to get their patients to sign waivers limiting any “pain and suffering” damages to $250,000. (Doctors want you to sign…
Insurance crisis: Foxes in the henhouse?
In June. Gov. Jeb Bush appointed the Property and Casualty Insurance Reform Committee to find solutions to our insurance premium problems. The St. Petersburg Times questions their objectivity today. The committee has…
IN: Aftermath of Hurricane Ivan
Hurricane Ivan kicked us out of our nice digs in the Theisen Building. We left half our furniture behind – either destroyed or it was too heavy to carry down three flights…