Florida's PIP, No-Fault Sunset Concerns Council Members
Southeast News • January 3, 2006
There is no support among Florida Insurance Council members for the outright reenactment of the no-fault/PIP statute, Sam Miller, FIC executive vice president told Insurance Journal.
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Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Florida PIP
Posted On: October 4, 2007, 8:16 am CDT
Posted By: TPG
Comment:
JG:
Wow! I must have touched a nerve. You make a lot of assumptions. For your information, I do A LOT of pro-bono (free legal) work for a variety of individuals and have opened up two such files since last week. When was the last time you provided free care with NO expectation of being paid (no LOP)?
I never commented on mandatory types of other insurance and, frankly, think that mandatory BI, mandatory UM or both is a better solution for the consumer than PIP ever was or will be. As for being in the minority making us wrong, that is not the case. Florida was wrong because the recently expired PIP system implemented in this state was broken. It was too expensive, riddled with fraud, and did little other than make unscrupulous doctors, chiro-clinics (1-800-ask-gary) and plaintiffs lawyers rich. Perhaps you should sit on this side of the fence for a week and look at what comes in as lawsuits.
Those lawsuits are what I see on a day to day basis, all day, every day. In fact, I will be attending hearings on some more this afternoon, as I did yesterday and all of last week.
I have no problems with legitimate bills for legitimate treatment, but this no-fault system promotes fraudulent practices and overbilling which then eats away the consumer's benefits when they may need those benefits down the line for additional (better) treatments.
What I have raised are many of the key issues that caused the legislature to sunset PIP. Those issues are not "garbage on the dinner table." You are not completely disinterested in this either, by the way, and your arguments are subjective as well. And, finally, no I do not live in Hialea. In fact, I do not live anywhere close to South Florida.
Subject: RE: RE: RE: RE: Florida PIP
Wow! I must have touched a nerve. You make a lot of assumptions. For your information, I do A LOT of pro-bono (free legal) work for a variety of individuals and have opened up two such files since last week. When was the last time you provided free care with NO expectation of being paid (no LOP)?
I never commented on mandatory types of other insurance and, frankly, think that mandatory BI, mandatory UM or both is a better solution for the consumer than PIP ever was or will be. As for being in the minority making us wrong, that is not the case. Florida was wrong because the recently expired PIP system implemented in this state was broken. It was too expensive, riddled with fraud, and did little other than make unscrupulous doctors, chiro-clinics (1-800-ask-gary) and plaintiffs lawyers rich. Perhaps you should sit on this side of the fence for a week and look at what comes in as lawsuits.
Those lawsuits are what I see on a day to day basis, all day, every day. In fact, I will be attending hearings on some more this afternoon, as I did yesterday and all of last week.
I have no problems with legitimate bills for legitimate treatment, but this no-fault system promotes fraudulent practices and overbilling which then eats away the consumer's benefits when they may need those benefits down the line for additional (better) treatments.
What I have raised are many of the key issues that caused the legislature to sunset PIP. Those issues are not "garbage on the dinner table." You are not completely disinterested in this either, by the way, and your arguments are subjective as well. And, finally, no I do not live in Hialea. In fact, I do not live anywhere close to South Florida.