re: Florida cracks down on frivolous lawsuits, insurance goes down..

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But but it’s the evil insurance companies….

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Well…..carriers are also revising policies to limit water damage to $10K, limiting what they owe for matching undamaged adjacent property to 1% of the policy amount and removing appraisal language from the policy.

Greedy plaintiff’s attorneys, sleazy public adjusters and scumbag contractors have basically killed the golden goose.

Now get rid of Obama Care so the Health Insurance Market can regulate itself.

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So you think that practice is fine? What’s stopping these sponsoring plaintiffs from gifting in the names of their employees as well? I mean if there was an aspiring college football referee that was on hard tours and the university of Alabama decided to bankroll him into becoming an SEC head official, you’d look at that activity as concerning.

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I think having an elected judiciary is idiotic and disgusting. But if you’re going to have an elected judiciary, and you’re going to allow campaign contributions, I don’t see a reasonable, equitable way to bar some contributions while allowing others when every person can appear before that judge as an interested party in a legal matter.

I think Gov. Landry was heavily supported by the plaintiff’s bar.

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I 100% agree, though what’s a reasonable alternative? I couldn’t imagine the last governor or this one for that matter appointing judges. Would that be handled locally? Even that would have its issues. I couldn’t imagine Orleans parish courts being any more kangaroo like, but if the local politicians appointed them I can see it actually being worse.

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I haven’t spent much time with it, but from my vague recollection, most judges are either outright appointed, or more circuitously, a judicial appointment panel is elected, and they then interview and appoint. Not perfect, but I consider that to be better than outright elections.

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Could you perhaps have a law stating that any judicial candidate must have equal contributions from both sides of the bar?

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Even if that withstood constitutional scrutiny, which I doubt, that would be functional impossible to police. If you’re concerned about frickery now, I can’t even fathom the frickery that would go on within that paradigm to skirt who is on which side of the Bar, and when. And then how do you categorize contributions made by non attorneys who just happen to be good friends with attorneys, etc?

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Also isn't it legal tor the lawyers to legally wine and dine these judges?

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Not to my knowledge, no. The judicial canon at issue functionally mirrors that of other public servants:

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C.Gifts. A judge, a judge's spouse, or a member of the judge's immediate family residing in the judge's household shall not accept any gifts or favors which might reasonably appear as designed to affect the judgment of the judge or influence the judge's official conduct.

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And I’ve never seen it done, though I can’t make any promises about random rural JDCs.

Our homeowners policy here in FL Panhandle doubled. Doing the annual search for some unknown company and bring it to a 10-15% increase.

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Greedy plaintiff’s attorneys, sleazy public adjusters and scumbag contractors have basically killed the golden goose.

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Yes, Public Adjusters for the most part inflate the claims because the higher the claim, the more they make.

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Now get rid of Obama Care so the Health Insurance Market can regulate itself.

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Sure. Let's make everyone with pre existing conditions uninsurable again. That'll lower rates@!!

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uninsurable again. That'll lower rates@!!

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You answered your own statement with the answer.



All I know is my premiums went up 400%, deductible went up and the max out of packet went up.

All due to freaking dumb arse OBAMA

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Remember when LA's 2020 Tort Reform legislation was passed on the premise it would lower auto insurance rates?

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Remember when it was gutted before it passed?