TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — The insurance coverage investigation continues on the statehouse with one other listening to within the books.
Lawmakers forge forward, demanding extra solutions round who to carry accountable after the bombshell reporting revealed Florida insurers have been shifting cash whereas claiming to be broke.
Even after a second listening to, the investigation wrapped up, there appears to be unfinished enterprise.
Within the first hearing of the insurance investigation, lawmakers probed time and again the identical query: Why wasn’t the report launched to the legislature throughout an insurance coverage disaster?
Workplace of Insurance coverage Regulation Commissioner Michael Yaworsky claims the report was imperfect.
“Why we did not make the actual findings of this report back to you is principally as a result of it was in draft, and we do not make a enterprise of offering info that we consider to be inaccurate or imperfect to the legislature,” stated Yaworsky.
Nevertheless, within the second listening to of the investigation final week, the writer of the examine stated it was really full.
State Rep. Daniel Alvarez (R- Hillsborough County) questioned Jan Moenck, “It’s inaccurate for them to have stated you weren’t completed, so both they weren’t telling us the reality otherwise you weren’t telling the reality, which one was that?”
Moenck, the writer of the examine, stated that in her thoughts, she thought they’d a remaining draft.
“In our thoughts, we had our remaining draft,” stated Moenck.
Whereas lawmakers say there may be clearly an enormous discrepancy between the 2 tales, each events appear to agree that it’s as much as the shopper to determine when a report is completed.
“What we really feel is our duty is to supply, in our thoughts, a remaining draft to the shopper, after which they’ll take that and do with that what they need,” stated Moenck.
“Will we be going again to OIR, being that what’s being revealed mainly says they lied to us, they’d a accomplished report and didn’t tell us that it was accomplished,” questioned State Rep. Dianne Hart (D-Tampa).
With much more issues on the forefront, what’s subsequent for the investigation?
Committee chairman Brad Yeager stated there will likely be a minimum of another listening to scheduled to additional examine these issues.
Except for the investigation, Home Rep. Philip Wayne Griffitts (R-Panama Metropolis Seashore) filed HB 881, which goals to observe the cash in insurance coverage issues following the investigation.
