keep wailin' about drag queens cons https://jacobin.com/2022/12/ron-desantis-florida-insurance-one-way-attorney-fee-law-overturn here they rushed a 105-page rewrite of the state’s property insurance laws through a three-day special session. DeSantis, who urged lawmakers to hold this special session, signed it into law on Friday. This a sweeping piece of legislation, and it makes a bunch of big changes. The most consequential of those changes erases what is known as Florida’s “one-way attorney fee” law. This may sound complicated, but it’s really quite simple. In most lawsuits, each side usually pays for its own lawyers. But Florida’s one-way attorney fee law allows a policyholder who successfully sues an insurance company that refused to pay a claim to make that insurance company pay their legal bills, too. This law is essentially a slingshot that David can use to fight Goliath. It’s meant to discourage insurance companies from dragging their feet when a policyholder files a claim — and to ensure those policyholders aren’t punished if they must sue to collect. “It is an undue hardship upon beneficiaries of policies to be compelled to reduce the amount of their insurance by paying attorney’s fees when suits are necessary in order to collect that to which they are entitled,” the Florida Supreme Court once wrote in another opinion addressing Florida’s one-way attorney fee law. Not surprisingly, insurance companies detest this law. They have been lobbying against it for many years, arguing that the prospect of one-way attorney fees encourages people to sue their insurance company unnecessarily, which drives up costs for everybody else. The insurance industry has had a lot of success with that argument lately, amid Florida’s latest property insurance crisis. Industry lobbyists had already successfully persuaded DeSantis and the state legislature to weaken the one-way attorney fee law twice in the past two years. (Campaign contributions have helped.) But now they’re just eliminating the law altogether. It’s hard to overstate how momentous a change this is. Florida has had some version of its one-way attorney fee law on the books since at least 1893, according to research by legislative staffers. Now, this legislation (HB 1A, SB 2A) only eliminates one-way attorney fees in lawsuits involving property insurance policies. But you can bet that lobbyists for auto insurers and health insurers and all the rest will soon be pressing lawmakers to give them the same break, too. And while eliminating one-way attorney fees is the most significant provision in the bill, it’s by no means the only change making it much harder for a consumer to sue an insurance company. (There are, however, no similar restrictions in the legislation on the ways insurance companies are siphoning profits out of Florida by paying fees to their parent and sister companies.) For instance, this bill strips consumers of their right to transfer their claims under a policy to someone else who might have more money to pursue a lawsuit. It makes it harder to get extra penalties levied against an insurance company that intentionally stonewalls a claim. It even forces customers of the state’s insurance company, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, who file a claim for water damage to prove that the damage was not caused by flooding — rather than requiring Citizens to prove that the water damage was caused by flooding. (Citizens, like private carriers, does not cover damage from floods). Ron DeSantis was unusually quiet about the special session while it was happening. But there’s no doubt that he’s the guy who made this legislation happen. The governor, who is likely to launch a presidential campaign later this year, went on CNN in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian and called out the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature for not doing enough to cut down on insurance litigation. “You need to get rid of the scams and the litigation and I’m willing to do that,” DeSantis said. “The Legislature has not been willing to do that thus far. But I’m confident after the election they will.” And make no mistake, this is a legacy bill for DeSantis — whether he ultimately wants to take credit for it or not. Taken together, the changes in this insurance legislation amount to the most significant new restrictions on civil lawsuits in Florida since Jeb Bush’s final year as governor. That’s when Bush and the Legislature eliminated a legal doctrine known as “joint and several liability” — a change that business lobbyists gloatingly referred to as the “Holy Grail” of lawsuit reform. Ron DeSantis is about to bring Florida into a brave new world in property insurance — without any assurance that these changes will actually reduce prices for policyholders. If you’re a homeowner who needs to get a claim paid next year . . . good luck.
Complete and total horseshit. Written by people who don't live here, and misunderstood completely by those living elsewhere (like you, of course) looking to push an Anti-DeSanti narrative. The "siding with insurance companies" is meant to address the fact that Florida has 7% of the claims, but ~80% of the litigation costs. Anyone can sue to get their roof replaced with just a tiny bit of damage, by passing on the ability to roofing repair companies to fight lawsuits against insurance companies on their behalf. Its a total scam, and you support it apparently. Roofing companies patrol neighborhoods and cold call or knock on doors saying "I can get you a new roof if you sign these docs!" I had it done to me. I had a text from a company that "got my name from a neighbor" and wanted to know if I wanted my roof replaced for free. Who pays for this? Those of us who do things the right way. That's why premiums have spiked and why insurance companies are leaving the state. Oh, and by the way, the "DeSantis is siding with insurers" narrative has him putting laws back in place that are essentially in all other states. So this article is crap, which isn't a surprise given it comes from you.
May 21, 2020 - this thread began showing how Ron DeSantis was correct. A lot of feces throwing by the forum monkeys tried to point out how this wasn't true. DeSantis was a fool, a MAGA wannabe, a governor who was going to kill all his constituents (DeathSantis) and later an Authoritarian. Heroes like Rebekkah Jones were elevated, showing how the data in Florida was false and how Jones was correct. Media assassins were hired to depict DeSantis in the worst possible light, claiming he gave preferential treatment to donors for vaccine rollout, how he was racist for excluding persons of color from vaccine rollouts, and later how he was anti-vaccine. they attacked him for being anti-mask and opening schools and the Florida economy, calling him the Anti-Science governor. Articles written, TV Media hit jobs put out - the usual left wing modus operandi. All of it, wrong. All of it, lies. In the background, hundreds of thousands of residents from other states moved to Florida, seeing the writing on the wall. Florida, a once purple state - and we were told - would soon turn Blue, had the biggest Red Landslide in the US. Some of the best economic numbers in the state's history ALL TIME. And, of course, the state overperformed (good) against other states when it came down to the number of deaths per 1M pop, which of course was tried to be spun differently by picking specific calendar days to compare Florida against other states. All of this is documented in this thread's hilarity by clowns that joined in - but no one more clueless, totally unhinged and brainwashed beyond gwb_trading. We have him to thank for the total stupidity. In the coming days, I'll pull up some of his greatest hits - and maybe some from some others as well. But for now, please see: Ron DeSantis sworn in. Ron DeSantis, for the win.
Thankfully Trump and the turtle by way of The SC killed his chances at The White House.Hearing DeSatens annoying voice for 4 years would drive me nut.
No.But as Vice Pres shes not seen or heard as much as the Pres.Hopefully Biden dumps that cunt if he runs again as its unlikely he would complete a 2nd term and and we would be stuck with her Most hopefully Biden dumps himself as well and doesn't run again.