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27 minutes ago, SoberChef said:

Wasn't this predicted to happen some time ago, or possibly I am confusing this with insurance companies exiting California as well?

National insurance companies have been gradually pulling out of Florida for years now. Same with Louisiana, to a lesser degree.

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14 hours ago, PaladinSolo said:

No worries they kept woke math out of the state.

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The fallout continues after another major insurance company chose to pull out of Florida’s ailing property insurance market.

State Republicans are now blaming “Woke” insurance…

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14 hours ago, Ominous said:

It's almost like non hurricane prone parts of the country can't subsidize idiots that choose to live where there are storms every year, flooding, and rising sea levels.... 

 

Might as well respond to this since I'm one of those "idiots" I guess:

 

It's more than that. Even before Hurricane Ian last year, Florida's insurance market was in shambles. Citizens Insurance -- our state's government insurance of last resort -- was exploding at an unhealthy level. Insurance companies were closing or kicking off customers, yet we hadn't been hit by a massive hurricane since 2018. By all accounts, the insurance market pre-Ian should have been healthy with no disasters since Hurricane Michael in 2018. Insurance experts warned that with the market in an unhealthy position with no landfalling hurricanes, the legislature needed to act as a hurricane landfall could take an already unhealthy insurance market and send it spiraling.

 

We should see shifts based on if we're being hit by hurricanes or not, but we were seeing skyrocketing premiums when nothing hit us. The legislature did act with no leadership from DeSantis. There was zero short-term relief, but there is a possibility that some of what they did may be beneficial long-term since some insurance companies posted their first profits in years. Considering people's insurance is going up thousands of dollars from one year to the next, the lack of short-term relief was stunning.

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15 hours ago, outsida said:
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The fallout continues after another major insurance company chose to pull out of Florida’s ailing property insurance market.

State Republicans are now blaming “Woke” insurance…

 

What’s funny is AllState and State Farm and the entire republican party blamed those two pulling out of CA on the woke libs too. In that case they basically are trying to extort for more money and are being taken to court for the move for that reason. They are upset that they can’t arbitrarily raise rates in California and they have to be reviewed. I don't think gouging customers to death is the solution here. 

 

The problem itself is apolitical as it’s literally determined by the climate of the location but how it will be dealt with will likely be divided between social programs to assist (dems) and doing nothing and burying their heads in the sand and blaming something completely irrelevant (reps). 
 

It might be an interesting thing to watch this very similar problem and in a few years how CA and FL are handling it compared to each other.

 

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