When we cats lived in Florida, we were never brazen (or foolish) enough to go without property insurance. Call us neurotic, but we had all the coverage you'd want for wind and water damage — plus we dropped a ton of money on hurricane shutters.
The hurricanes we lived through felled a lot of palm trees and tore off a few of our barrel shingles, and our house didn't flood — but if it had, we would have been good.
That was a while ago, however. Now, years later, many people are new to Florida (and hurricanes), haven't a clue what they're like, and have blown off insurance as unaffordable. Hard to blame them, but still.
With Hurricane Ian set to hit the state this week, we're all suddenly reminded that Ron DeSantis and his awful Republicans in the state legislature have done nothing to fix Florida's property and windstorm insurance crisis. In fact, the situation is continuing to go south.
"State regulators Friday asked a judge to place a property-insurance company in receivership, making it the sixth Florida property insurer declared insolvent this year amid widespread financial problems in the industry," The Miami Herald reports.
Gosh! It's so great that Florida's GOP legislature and heroic Governor would rather persecute trans kids, school teachers, and migrants legally asking for asylum — instead of solving pressing (and life-threatening) issues for their constituents. We cats HISS.
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