Florida’s attempt to help homeowners costs them more

Editor,

I see where Florida has denied Hartford Insurance’s request for a 40 percent rate increase. So our state insurance department is protecting us again. Wow! Let me see what the numbers say.

Hartford Insurance, with whom I had been insured for fifteen years, cancelled my homeowners’ policy, and my new insurance company’s policy premium is 68 percent higher than my previous Hartford policy. And Citizens’ premium would have been 100 percent higher.

I would gladly have paid Hartford a 40 percent increase to keep my old policy.

Bless their hearts; you have got to love those folks in Tallahassee. They do not seem have a clue about homeowners’ insurance, but they sure do know how to pander to voters.

David H. Brewer
Brewer Sahm & Webb Inc.
Bartow

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