re: Jeff Landry in trial lawyers pocket

being better than the Dem doesn't make you a good pick. but this is louisiana and we expect the worst and still vote for it.

frick that slimy cocksucker.

I would have preferred Wags, but I knew Landry was a lawyer stooge when I pushed the little button next to his name. At that point, any non-Democrat would do, but going forward, I'd like to see Landry get challenged by other republicans, if for no other reason than to drive him a bit to the right.

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We heard how tort reform two years ago was going to drastically reduce car insurance. It passed yet nothing changed.

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That's not true. Something did change: Insurance rates went up. That's why the insurance lobby wouldn't let a guarantee that the law would sunset on its own if rates didn't go down as promised.

It was never about insurance rates. It still isn't about insurance rates.

Jeff Albright, head of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of Louisiana, finally told the truth, but not until after the bill passed.

The Advocate, reported:

Lowering auto insurance rates really wasn’t the point of the tort reform legislation signed into law last month [Jeff] Albright said. After years of trying to pass bills that would limit the ability of individuals seeking [compensation] from injuries through the courts, tort reformers took a different tack.

Albright continued, “Strategically, we did something different this year in pressing forward on tort reform,” Albright told the panel meeting on a video conference. “Historically, we’ve talked about tort reform from the perspective of ‘we need to improve the business environment, and tort reform is an important part of improving the business environment.’ We all get that. But it is not really an issue that is going to excite Joe Six-Pack to call their legislator and press for tort reform. And so, the change in strategy was we kind of tied tort reform to automobile insurance this time.”

It was all based on an admitted lie. A clever lie. But a lie all the same. No one at the legislature had any proof tort claims were making insurance rates higher. No one really knows what the rates are based on because the insurance companies tightly guard how they calculate rates as a secret. Even a friend of the industry, Insurance Commissioner Donelon, has called the auto insurance industry “opaque.”

This year they did some "work" on bad faith laws. People like the OP who drink the cool aid will think that's a good thing.

Wait until the next hurricane roars through here, and your insurance company won't act in good faith. You won't have a stick anymore to make them pay.

But sure, blame trial lawyers. Your rates went up since the last round of tort reform 4 years ago.

Know what else went up during the same time frame?

Insurance company profits.

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This year they did some "work" on bad faith laws. People like the OP who drink the cool aid will think that's a good thing.

Wait until the next hurricane roars through here, and your insurance company won't act in good faith. You won't have a stick anymore to make them pay.

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Florida is going to be in for a rude awakening this hurricane season if they get hit since the bad faith penalties were removed.