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Senator David Simmons of Altamonte Spring added some changes which totally make the bill ineffective to what was intended. Now that a bill was passed, the House of Representatives  now has to vote, but with only days left in the session, it is not lilely that a bill can be pushed out in time to pass and be sent to the Governor to sign. No bill means no change to the norm we have had. The norm is rate hikes with no end, and in Fort Lauderdale this has been real hard on many. It seems this may all be for naught and our Legislators will go home with no clue what to do next. What we really need is to stop playing the party line and do things for the consumer to make it easier to live here in South Florida.The Real Estate market needs prices of Home Insurance to stabalize and that does not seem likely. Till then no deal so please read the full article below. Please call L & S Insurance at 1-888-244-7400 for quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & COmmercial, and Life Insurance quotes as well.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2013/04/26/289915.htm

Just like in Wahington, they cannot agree and there are so many variations to this bill  that little may happen this year. To me, this means that they do not want to go to work for the people of Florida and try to help the situation. Prices of Insurance are so high, many are loosing their homes because of insurance premiums and not from not  paying the mortgage.  Senator A. Hays and Governor Rick scott had best do something to try and help the people of Florida and especially those in Fort Lauderdale and all of South Florida where the rates are going out of control and will continue to get worse. Those legislators in Tall. need to do more work for us than stand party lines!!!   Please call L & S Insurance at 1-888-244-7400 for quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & Commercial and Life Insurance as well. Please read the full article below from the Insurance Journal today 4/19/13

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2013/04/19/289163.htm

Our Cat fund needs 17 Billion(which I think is way to low) to meet it’s curent Immediete needs, but the fund is more than 7 Billion short now. If you wait for the storm and issue Bonds it will be harder to sell and more costly. Who would want a bond on a State that has been clobbered already! If you buy now, you are betting the storm does not hit or hits in a less populated area. 2 Billion is better than none, but let’s see if the offer actually sells when it is available. In the meantime we await more news about The property Insurance bill which is still making it’s way through Tallahassee with our Legislators. In Fort Lauderdale and South Florida we wait to see how bad the Citizens rate Increases will be which will also dictate prices of other home Insurance companies going into next year. Governor Rick Scott could veto the bill, which would be a surprise as he has pushed for it, but if he does it will be to win votes for the re-election.Please call L & S Insurance at 1-888-244-7400 for quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & Commercial and Life Insurance as well. Please enjoy the fullarticle below from the Insurance Journal.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2013/04/17/288636.htm

What a waste of taxpayer dollars last year to spend all the time to pass a bill when everyone knew that to repeal PIP is the only real solution to a lot of Fraud here in Florida. Fort Lauderdale and Miami are impacted the most, but all of Florida needs some rate decreases somewhere so making Florida a PIP state no more would be a better suggestion to all. Let’s see what the legislators in Tall. do now??  Please read the full article below from the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinal and written by the Tallahassee division, but sent to us by our friends at First State Insurance. Please call L & S Insurance at 1-888-244-7400 for quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & Commercial Coverage and Life Insurance as well.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-pip-no-more-20130402,0,6803996.story

Items to be duscussed as spoken here before;

1- Depopulating Citizens Insurance- includes diverting applications when they come in as well.

2-Reducing the risk on the Florida cat fund by going to the Private reinsurance markets which are more costly to the consumer.

3-Enforcement of the 15% rule for premiums to be eligable for Citizens

4-Rate Hikes at higher levels than we have seen

5- rate Hikes by Citizens to be higher than 20 private carriers offering business in the area.

6 Agents commissions which are always a target, but we do not even Like Citizens or anything about them.

All of our legislators in Tallahassee will be discussing this including Governor Rick Scott, Insurance commissioner Kevin McCarty and others as the bill should be ready in about 2 weeks which is still 2 weeks before the session starts. Please read the full article below and please call L & S Insurance at 1-888-244-7400 for quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & Commercial and Life Insurance quotes as well.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2013/02/11/280846.htm

 

This bill will try to cover all of the things I have been showing over the last several months. Since this year is not an election year, anything goes, so this year is likely to have some real changes. The issue is who will benefit? There could be more private Insurance companies, less policies in Citizens, and The cat fund could put Re-insurance back to the private market as Governor Christ had put Fl0rida at risk by becoming a reinsurer. The will help save Citizens from going under beyond 1 storm or sooner and the Florida Cat fund as well, but who will be the real loosers?? That my friend is the consumer(us), because to save Citizens and the Florida Cat Fund premiums will continue to rise. Buying insurance in Fort Lauderdale and South Florida is already so expensive, but  all of these transitions could cause some major rate hikes still to come. What will the people of Florida do?? Well it seems the the U.S.  Governmant will bail out any catastrophe as proved with Hurricane Sandy since a 50 billion dollar bill to help those who chose to not have insurance is now law. If the Fedeal Government and the Legislator in Washington D.C. will save everyone from these cats then why should our prices rise and how can we use this to our advantage?? There is still the questions about Citizens Insurance as well and Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty still wants to change Citizens back to being the Insurer of last resort at rates 15-20% higher than anyone else in the marketplace. This is where we were before Governor christ and that was also not a good situation??? As usual, this will be discussed, most do not understand what will happen, but prices are still on the rise for 2013 and 2014 for sure. Please read the full article blow. Please call L & S Insurance at 1-888-244-7400 for quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & Commercial and Life Insurance quotes as well.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2013/01/31/279560.htm

Why does every bill put through need to have other things mixed into it. This is what froze Flood Insurance bills for many years and caused many unnecessary extensions. If you simply pass a bill as a bill, life could be simpler. This is pure help for the states affected and the people who lost everything during Hurricane Sandy.Our Legislators in Washington D.C.  finally did something together and worked out a deal so congratulations. I am not sure where the Insurance policies fit in here as many did not have Insurance by choice, so what should be done for them? In any case President Obama will sign the bill soon and money should finally be on it’s way after 3 months. Del;ays from trying to add tax cut issues and spending limits were originally added to this bill, but who knows why???  In any event, please call L & S INsurance at 1-888-244-7400 for quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business and Commercial, and Life Insurance quotes as well. Please enjoy the fullarticle below;

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2013/01/28/279159.htm

More Windpool, More Depopulations, A true Keepout policy at 15% requirements and rates prices 15% higher than all the provate markets in the area to reduce the desire to come into citizens or even try. This sounds Like Citizens and Citizens wind pool before Governor Christ back for more. On top of this Citzens, has removed almost 400K policies, but more than 400K have been added by agents and thisis still the problem. The Private marketplace now takes or has nearly 50% of the Florida marketplace, but not every agent has access to these carriers for many reasons so they are placed in Citizens by the agent without a market to place it anywhere else. This will soon be what they call Keepout and it will be on the monds of all Legislators this session in March as well as  Governor Rick Scott when they all meet in Tallahassee. Lot’s of price increases coming for Fort lauderdale, S. Florida and all over Florida as well. We all need to watch this carefully so you know what will happen on top of the Reinsurance issues as well. Please call L & S  at 1-888-244-7400 for all quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & Commercial, and Life Insurance products as well. Please read the full article below;

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2013/01/25/278773.htm

There is barely enough money for 1 storm in 1 Hurricane season and what if we have 2 storms????  If Florida, which will affect Fort Lauderdale and all of Soouth Florida worse, could see more major rate hikes soon as the Federal plan is just not likley. The Florida  Cat fund may need to lower it’s exposure by 5 billion or more per storm  and if that happens then all of the  carriers will be required to get more expensive reinsurance form the private carriers (Like Warren Buffet’s company, among other’s). These increases will hurt the Real estate recovery in Florida as rates have been on the rise since Governor Rick Scott has come to office and even before that as well. When our Legislators meet in session soon, this will be a big topic and no National resolution could possibly come that fast. For a National plan to work, we already know that the President (Obama) must endorse the program for any hope and that is not likely as about 20 states have no interest at all to help the other’s. Please read the article below and please call L & S Insurance at 1-888-244-7400 for all quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & Commercial and Life Insurance as well.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2013/01/18/277912.htm

It would have been bankrupt by Monday, but now it has money. The real question is what will the rates have to go to to make the flood program financially sound. There are those asking for a national catastrophe plan, but we all know the US Government is not good at running these programs. Look at Citizens Insurance here in Fort lauderdale and Florida. Then look at FEMA or National Flood and then what would this plan look like finacially?? In any event, please call L & S Insurance at 1-888-244-7400 for all of your quotes on Home, Auto, Flood, Business & Commercial and Life Insurance quotes as well. Please enjoy the full article below.

http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2013/01/04/276081.htm

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