Even before hurricanes hit Florida over the last two years, residents were seeing their homeowner’s insurance rates increase sharply for more than a decade year after year. The culprit for these increases surrounds scams by crooked contractors assisted by a cabal of trial attorneys. You can read this op-ed by visiting the Daily Caller.
Lawmakers Must Address Florida’s Biggest Insurance Scam
A vast scam engineered by unscrupulous attorneys and contractors is sending homeowners’ insurance premiums skyrocketing, and Florida lawmakers aren’t doing enough to stop it. The problem stems from a provision in Florida law called Assignment of Benefits (AOB). An AOB allows an insurance policyholder to grant insurance claim rights to a third-party, such as a […]
Florida Politicians and the Insurance Scam
A recent report by the American Tort Reform Foundation ranks Florida as the worst judicial hellhole. Along with a need for comprehensive tort reform, as the report points out, Florida has become the poster child for an insurance scam that enriches some attorneys and home repair companies at a big cost to insurance consumers. Here […]
Buyer Beware: Complaints from Rooftops
Over the past couple of decades, a number of rooftop solar companies have gone into business – often making arrangements to lease solar panels to consumers while collecting subsidies for these systems for themselves. SolarCity – the brainchild of billionaire Elon Musk – has made an especially big name for itself in the world of […]
