Investigative journalist Lawrence Mower of the Miami Herald and Tampa Bay Occasions uncovered made up statistics by the insurance coverage trade and repeated by Florida politicians in mattress with them. In, Are Lawsuits Inflicting Florida’s Excessive Insurance coverage Premiums? A New State Report Has Solutions, Mower quoted Republican Senator Erin Grall:
‘It’s now clear; the insurance coverage trade fabricated their arguments and knowledge over the previous few years to fabricate a disaster and push for varied legislative reforms,’ she mentioned in an announcement.
‘The trade has defrauded the general public and the Legislature in an effort to not should pay out claims for what householders are owed.’
Mower famous the next about the true statistics versus the fabrication from insurance coverage lobbyists and executives
However the report doesn’t match the rhetoric from Gov. Ron DeSantis and insurance coverage firms that frivolous or abusive lawsuits had been inflicting document losses and hovering premiums. Lawmakers in 4 legislative periods have made it successively tougher to sue insurance coverage firms, which has not resulted in decrease premiums. Among the many adjustments introduced by legislators: Policyholders now should pay their very own legal professional’s charges if suing an insurer
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The info does shoot down one of many claims by insurers and enterprise teams such because the Florida Chamber of Commerce. These teams have complained for years that plaintiffs’ attorneys can ask to have their attorneys charges doubled by a decide, often called a “contingency price multiplier,” which they mentioned incentivizes frivolous instances.
The info reveals it’s a non-issue: it was awarded 4 instances in 2022.
The insurance coverage trade, its lobbyists, and Florida politicians in mattress with them, carried out a propaganda ploy utilized by the Nazis usually often called “the massive lie.” Whereas usually attributed to Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels with no proof, a definition is as follows:
For those who inform a lie large enough and preserve repeating it, folks will ultimately come to imagine it. The lie will be maintained just for such time because the State can protect the folks from the political, financial and/or army penalties of the lie. It thus turns into vitally vital for the State to make use of all of its powers to repress dissent, for the reality is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the reality is the best enemy of the State.
Amy Bach, of United Policyholders, and Doug Quinn, of American Policyholders Affiliation, would name me and ask the place the statistics got here from. My reply was, “I have no idea. I believe they made them up. There is no such thing as a backup they will present to show what they’re saying.”
Quinn complained incessantly that the statistics had been being repeated by journalists with out reality checking and thus repeating “the massive lie.” He commissioned a research on the subject as famous in American Policyholder Affiliation Publishes Research Highlighting Florida Insurance coverage Market Claims Fee Points. The report, New Evaluation of Regulatory Criticism Knowledge Suggests Excessive Charges of
Litigation in Florida Householders Insurance coverage Market are Pushed by Substantial Claims Fee Points, not Frivolous Lawsuits, casts doubt on the propaganda spewed by the insurance coverage lobbyists and different Florida politicians.
To be honest, there was a marked enhance in property insurance coverage litigation. There have been additionally abuses by some attorneys and roofers extra involved about making as a lot cash as they may whatever the legitimacy of the claims. However there have been a variety of vital causes for insurance coverage premiums to develop into larger in Florida apart from as reported by the insurance coverage trade. However the insurance coverage trade has your premium cash and is spending a part of it for these lobbyists and “in mattress” politicians to unfold it model of actuality.
An enormous shout out goes to Lawrence Mower for his work exposing “the massive insurance coverage foyer lie.”
Thought For The Day
A lie can journey midway around the globe whereas the reality is placing on its sneakers.
—Mark Twain
