Posted On: February 1, 2007, 3:35 pm CST

Posted By: Ralph Balamabama

Dawn,
I certainly have empathy for you having a home hard to sell but a little forethought when you bought it and moved to a place where hurricanes are common might have helped. It's like the people in New Orleans not building adequate levees. Forethought is an important thing when making life decisions like where to live, whom to marry, whether to spend state tax dollars on levees and disaster planning.
Ike,
Insurance companies have to be profitable some years in order to put money back in their savings from the years they lost so much. You act like they should never be allowed to make a profit even in non-storm years. Sounds like communism to me. You should be very thankful you did not have another bad storm season and that insurance companies made money or what you think is a problem now would only be exponentially worse. I am an insurance agent and most of the companies I sell do not even write in your state. Lets see if I have a product that loses money if I sell it in Florida should I sell there? I think not. You are short sighted and so is your new governor.