As Gov. Rick Scott acts on legislation that was passed during the final weeks of this year’s regular legislative session, there is one bill noticeably absent from his desk: House Bill 1421. Authored by state Reps. Jamie Grant, R-Tampa, and Rene Plasencia, R-Orlando, the bill would have addressed abuse of assignment of benefits, or AOBs, the driving cause behind the continuing rise of homeowner insurance rates across the state.
It has been over a decade since Floridians were impacted by a major hurricane, so naturally we have legitimate questions about why we continue to pay more every year to insure our properties — a line of questioning further justified by the fact that reinsurance rates are at historic lows and falling.
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