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| Special Section: Insurance Crisis |
Insurance Crisis = PB&J
Posted Jan 16, 2007 by Baird Helgeson
Updated Jan 16, 2007 at 02:00 PM
Ginny Stevans
We met the other bus about 30 minutes north in Hernando County. The bellies of both busses are filled with protest signs for the rally.
Passengers on the bus from Pasco are sharing insurance horror stories and debating who is to blame for the crisis.
Some blame former Gov. Jeb Bush for not doing enough to drive down rates in the final years of his term. Others blame Mother Nature for brewing up the eight storms that hit the state in two years, beginning in 2004.
Rally participants were told to bring bag lunches for the trip, but organizers brought peanut butter, jelly and bread for those who forgot a lunch.
“For many of us, that’s all we can afford to eat after we paid our property insurance bills,” says Ginny Stevans, HAC’s president. “We think it makes the point.”
Stevans is organizing groups to personally lobby lawmakers after the rally on the Capitol steps.
Stevans slowly makes her way up the aisle of the bus asking people if they want to lobby lawmakers as well as rally on the steps. She warns the mostly-retired group that there could be a lot of walking involved.
“Lobby?” she asks. “Rally and lobby?”
She jots down a name and then steps forward.
“Rally and lobby?”
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Por (Bill McDonald) on January 17, 2007 (Suggest removal)
Lets get the names of state legislators that have insurance industry ties. Publish their names so we can watch how they vote.
The state senate seems to have shot down the proposal to make insurance companies who want to sell policies from cherry picking—-why?
Suggest removalPor (Jerry Roberts) on January 19, 2007 (Suggest removal)
We are on the receiving end of a new insurance scam that appears to be aimed at those who should have their rates lowered. Insurance companies are presently requiring that customers carry insurance for “full replacement cost” of the residence. Of course, the insurance companies are the ones that establish that cost. We can no longer insure just to cover the mortgage amount. In our case, the base price on our new home was $210,000 (including the lot) in 2004. In 2006, in order to obtain coverage, we were required to insure our home for $465,000, which the insurance company had determined to be the replacement cost. It’s a big scam!
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