Personal Injury Law

Insurance Industry attacks Bad Faith and UM coverage with Legislation

By Mark R. Hanson

Senator John Thrasher, must be the insurance industry's shill. He is certainly an enemy of the Florida consumer. Thrasher has introduced a new insurance bill that guts the muscle out of Florida's bad faith statute. Presently when an insurance company is found to have acted in bad faith toward their own insured (by the way, that is YOU Mr. Florida Citizen) the Insurance Company is responsible for all the damages they cause, including the entire damages caused to their insured in the accident.

This type of law keeps Florida Insurance companies from intentionally hurting their own customers! Thrasher's amendments will let the Automobile Insurance Company delay and/or deny their own customer's claims without penalty.

This bill damages and compresses the rights of consumers in Florida. It empowers the insurance companies to abuse their own customers, and these customers happen to be Florida citizens.

The worst part of the problem is that when Insurance Companies fail to pay fairly with their customers more people get lawyers and it causes more litigation. More litigation puts more pressure on an already overburdened court system.

Governor Scott then believes he can help balance the budget by cutting back on judicial resources. How is that possible when the court system is being jury rigged to create more litigation?

Between Thrasher and Scott the credo of 'Let's get to work' sounds like 'Let's get to work undermining Florida's citizens.'

Click on the following link to read excerpts from Senate Bill 0624: Motor Vehicle Insurance

Full post as published by LaBovick Injury Law Blog on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).