Florida Gov. Scott, Insurers Vow Fight to Save PIP Law After Injunction

By | March 22, 2013

  • March 22, 2013 at 2:19 pm
    TN says:
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    Just do away with this outdated coverage. Create reasonable mandatory bodily injury liability limits. Make UIM/UM a mandatory coverage with the ability to opt out, and if an insured feels they need further protection in the event of first party meds, there’s alway Med Pay. Stop throwing millions upon millions of dollars down this bottomless sinkhole.

  • March 23, 2013 at 5:23 am
    ROBIN CLEWS says:
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    Insurance company’s should be tougher with the scammers who claim to be injured have them ct scanned and have investigators watch these people who claim for injury’s which they do not have it is the lawers who need to be clamped down on the ones who make money pleading their clients are more injured than they realy are .
    Do not get me wrong some people are badly injured an deserve all the medical benifites they are in titled too but too many of the minor accident claimants are scamming us and sky rocketing our premiums.
    So we need to investigate these claimants more and stamp on these unscrupels lawers

  • March 24, 2013 at 1:07 pm
    Chris Rose says:
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    Rick Scott “said the changes to PIP have resulted in more than 70 percent of insurance rates approved by the state insurance commissioner either decreasing or holding steady.”

    Total B.S. If anything rates are steadily increasing. In those few instances where PIP premiums have decreased, insurance companies have simply increased coverages in other areas.

    Rick Scott’s law is an unconstitutional GIFT to the insurance industry… point blank!

  • March 25, 2013 at 10:18 am
    LB says:
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    What a scam by RIck Scott and the Insurance companies to profit at the expense of the citizens of FL.

  • March 27, 2013 at 12:01 pm
    WB says:
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    When the new no fault law passed, insurers promised to reduce rates for Florida drivers by at least 10 percent, however, everyone I know no matter who the insurer has had their auto insurance increase by an average of 18%. The new law passed is unconstitutional because I and everyone else are paying for $10,000.00 worth of coverage and what gives an adjustor with no medical experience or an IME doctor that spends 5 minutes with a patient (and is paid for by the insurer) the right to cut my benefits to $2,500.00 when I am required by law to carry $10,000.00 and pay for $10,000.00. The only people profitting are the insurers. As for reducing fraud, thats easy. Anyone providing care to auto accident victims, have them licensed to do so, and charge the provider a nominal fee each year for inspection of their practice.

  • March 28, 2013 at 9:54 am
    Veronica says:
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    Medical providers are inspected by the Department of Health. Insurance companies have doctors examining accident victims which gives them the authority to stop treatment when they feel that the patient has reach the full benifit of therapy. Rick Scott made $100,000.00. in campaign contribution by the insurance industry to sign this PIP reform into law. Perhaps informing the laws already in place would be a method of eliminating fraud. Instead, our legislators who know nothing about medicine attacked the providers and eliminated benefits that are proven effective in treating soft tissue injuries which are the most common injuries from a car accident.

  • April 1, 2013 at 8:39 pm
    Jeffrey Lauffer D.C. says:
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    If this injunction (initiated by Jane and John Doe) was merely a fight to include massage therapists and acpuncturists to be included in the Florida PIP reimbursement system (for which, incidently, they are not included into most Major Medical Policy’s) I would agree with this fight… however because of the inclusion of removing a clause of “Emergency Medical Limits” which was implemented by HB 119, to reduce fraud, and reduce insurance premiums to ALL FLORIDIANS’s,(my Pensylvania rate is 2.5 times higher than the Florida rate) this injunction is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to increase the policy limits back to “FRAUD” statutes…



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