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DeSantis’ New Insurance Law Could Make It Harder to Rebuild After Hurricane Idalia
by Abby Vesoulis
August, 2023

Extract:

(Mother Jones) As I wrote earlier this month, recent changes to Florida’s tort laws orchestrated by GOP lawmakers and Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis will make it much harder for home insurance policyholders to sue their insurers for failing to adequately pay out claims for home damage. Idalia is the first hurricane to hit Florida since the laws were re-written in December 2022, following Hurricane Ian:

• The sweeping revisions makes it more difficult for homeowners to sue their property insurance companies for acting in “bad faith” and removes the right of homeowners to recover attorney’s fees, even in lawsuits they ultimately win. Additionally, the adjustments to Florida’s insurance laws allow insurance companies to create new policies with mandatory binding arbitration agreements in exchange for a premium reduction, which will also thwart many homeowners’ option to take insurers to court…Moreover, the legislation shortened the window in which policy holders can file claims with their insurers, invested $1 billion of taxpayer funds into a state-run reinsurance fund to help insurance companies mitigate their losses in the event of catastrophic events, and narrowed eligibility for Citizens, Florida’s state-run nonprofit insurance company that provides insurance to people who cannot find affordable coverage on the regular market.

Home insurance premiums in the state are already four times the national average and still rising. But while Florida policyholders are paying more in exchange for fewer options in the event an insurance company acts in bad faith, the new law is a big win for DeSantis, whose political coffers have been boosted by the insurance industry:

Insurance industry employees donated at least $3.9 million to his gubernatorial race and to the “Friends of Ron DeSantis” political committee between January 2018 and December 2022. Additionally, a Heritage Insurance subsidiary and People’s Trust Insurance together donated a total of $125,000 to DeSantis’s 2023 inaugural celebration, according to a May 2023 report by the American Federation of Teachers union and three other advocacy groups.

On Monday night, DeSantis told Floridians that he wants insurers “to make people whole who pay for this service. And I think that they deserve to have their claims honored.”

Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2 ... surance/

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DeSantis is a fucking disease. Fucking disease on our society!

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