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HurricaneInsurance

The Basic Issue

The increasing danger from hurricanes has made it difficult, if not impossible, for many Floridians to obtain necessary and adequate insurance to protect them from hurricanes and other natural disasters.

The Basic Arguments

Links

• Storming Mad
• Florida Consumer Action Network: Insurance Agenda

Media Coverage

• 10.5.08: Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Hurricane fund crisis could put homeowners at risk
• 8.19.08: St. Petersburg Times, Fay unlikely to cause havoc with insurance
• 8.11.06: Naples News, Paper: Insurers are big donors to state candidates.
• 8.10.06: St. Petersburg Times, What voters want is policy on insurers.
• 8.10.06: Tampa Tribune, Political Insurance Policies.
• 8.9.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Floridians just as worried by insurance as storms.
• 8.8.06: Palm Beach Post, New blow from reality hits private insurance.
• 8.8.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Insurance companies shower Fla. politicians with donations to get rate hikes.
• 8.7.06: St. Petersburg Times, An insurance solution.
• 8.7.06: Orlando Sentinel, State plan saddled with risk.
• 8.7.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Florida businesses say they can't get coverage.
• 8.6.06: Orlando Sentinel, Coverage costs soar out of reach.
• 8.6.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, State failures leave policyholders without a net.
• 8.2.06: Tampa Tribune, State To Back Business Insurance.
• 7.31.06: Gannett, State's insurance shock sets in.
• 7.30.06: St. Petersburg Times, Insurance can't wait.
• 7.30.06: Palm Beach Post, Everyone on ballot needs insurance.
• 7.28.06: Miami Herald, Insurance crisis enters political debate.
• 7.28.06: Tampa Tribune, Business Insurance Growing Scarce.
• 7.28.06: Associated Press, Bush considering state-run pool for business insurance coverage.
• 7.27.06: Palm Beach Post, Hear out the Democrats on hurricane insurance.
• 7.27.06: Miami Herald, Gov. Bush pushes plan to insure businesses.
• 7.26.06: Miami Herald, Schools feel tight squeeze of rising costs.
• 7.26.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Insurance policy: Four varied views.
• 7.26.06: Miami Herald, Insurance crisis now, calamity tomorrow.
• 7.24.06: CBS, Gov. Bush: Willing To Consider Special Session.
• 7.20.06: Tallahassee Democrat, Rate revolt.
• 7.19.06: Associated Press, Johnson: Public needs more input in premium hikes.
• 7.19.06: Associated Press, State Farm's property insurance rates will jump by more than 50 percent.
• 7.17.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Insurance hearings head for Tallahassee.
• 7.16.06: Palm Beach Post, State needs a new policy on insurance.
• 7.16.06: Daytona Beach News-Journal, Homeowners' insurance can be afforable.
• 7.14.06: Palm Beach Post, Format revamp set for hearings on insurance rate hikes.
• 7.12.06: Tallahassee Democrat, Regulators put end to insurance-rate hearings.
• 7.12.06: Palm Beach Post, Legilature drops ball, so people drop coverage.
• 7.12.06: Palm Beach Post, Insurers blasted for profit margins.
• 7.9.06: St. Petersburg Times, Republican CFO hopeful hits own party for insurance crisis.
• 7.6.06: Palm Beach Post, Nationwide seeks hikes up to 99%.
• 7.6.06: Orlando Sentinel, Nationwide wants to raise homeowners rates by 71%.
• 7.3.06: Naples News, $250 million to help homes tough it out.
• 6.30.06: Tallahassee Democrat, Troubling milestone.
• 6.29.06: Palm Beach Post, Another panel to study insurance.
• 6.29.06: Palm Beach Post, Citizens pullout would put builders at risk.
• 6.28.06: Associated Press, Citizens completes $3 billion bond sale.
• 6.20.6: Palm Beach Post, Citizens may become largest home insurer.
• 6.15.06: Palm Beach Post, Many costly condos seeing big rate hikes under Citizens plan.
• 6.8.06: Tallahassee Democrat, Two insurers may give up policies.
• 6.5.06: Palm Beach Post, Insurance worries create opportunity for change.
• 6.1.06: South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Property owners to pay 1 percent 'tax' for the next decade for hurricane fund.
• 5.29.06: Daytona Beach News-Journal, Floridians upset over Citizens increases.
• 5.28.06: Palm Beach Post, Democrats take chance to make insurance case.
• 5.26.06: Associated Press, Last of three insurance companies agrees to liquidate.
• 5.25.06: Tampa Tribune, Democrats Propose Insurance Changes.
• 5.24.06: St. Petersburg Times, State insurer has a fight on its hands.
• 5.24.06: Tampa Tribune, Bill Puts Lives, Tax Dollars At Risk.
• 4.23.06: Palm Beach Post, Small insurers hold advantage.
• 4.23.06: Naples News, Tampa insurance company dropping storm-damaged homes.
• 4.23.06: Palm Beach Post, Seeking insurance policy.
• 4.16.06: Tallahassee Democrat, Hurricane/Insurance.
• 3.26.06: Tampa Tribune, Millionaires Bank on Citizens.
• 3.26.06: Palm Beach Post, Generator money sent to wealthier pockets.
• 3.26.06: St. Petersburg Times, No way to address a crisis.
• 3.25.06: Palm Beach Post, Sales-tax surplus may bail citizens.

Blogs

• 5.1.07: Central Florida Political Pulse, Senators Rebuff Crist's Bid for More Sway Over Citizens.
• 4.29.07: Central Florida Political Pulse, Insurance battle to heat up again.
• 7.19.06: Florida Progressive Coalition, The Gift That Keeps on Giving -- Hurricanes.
• 6.4.06: Out in Left Field, You Don't Need a Weatherman To Tell Which Way the Wind Blows.
• 6.1.06: Out in Left Field, Storming Mad.
• 5.28.06: Florida Rants, Insurance: A Hot Button Issue for 2006.

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