Florida Homeowners Insurance Market Sees Promising Shift with Depopulation Program

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The landscape of Florida’s homeowners insurance industry is undergoing significant changes as private insurers have absorbed 275,324 policies from the state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp so far in 2023. These changes, spotlighted during the recent Citizens Board of Governors meeting, demonstrate a strategic attempt to balance the market through a process called “depopulation.” What Depopulation Means for Consumers For consumers, the depopulation program has a direct impact on their insurance decisions. Here’s what it boils down to: if a private insurance company extends an offer that exceeds a policy owner’s…

Florida homeowners insurance through Citizens includes random home inspections

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Policyholders are worried about the way this new requirement will impact their rates. The largest homeowners insurance company in Florida has added a new requirement to its coverage, which is to conduct random home inspections of its customers. The state-run Citizens insurer has been taking steps to control the rates it charges its policyholders. Citizens, like all homeowners insurance companies in the state, has been required to continually raise its rates as the market in Florida becomes an increasingly costly place to do business. While many insurers have left the…

Farmers Insurance Group stops selling new Florida homeowners’ policies

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The insurer announced that it is no longer writing new policies just as the hurricane season started. The Atlantic Hurricane Season has only just started this month, but along with it has come the announcement that Farmers Insurance Group has decided to stop selling property policies in the state. The insurer’s existing customers will still be able to keep their coverage, but new policies won’t be sold. At this time of year, many homeowners are taking the time for a last moment scramble to make sure they have the coverage…

Hurricane Ian sends Florida homeowners insurance company into insolvency

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United Property & Casualty Insurance Co. experienced larger losses than expected from the storm. United Property & Casualty Insurance Company was hit harder than predicted by Hurricane Ian and regulators have now taken steps to place the insurer into receivership after the storm sent it into insolvency. The process has now been triggered to obtain court approval to send the insurer into receivership. Interim Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky issued a letter to Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, to launch the process to obtain approval from the courts to place…

Florida homeowners’ insurance inspections from Citizens soon to explode

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The property insurer of last resort plans to make substantial eligibility and underwriting changes too. Florida homeowners’ insurance company of last resort, Citizens, has announced that it is likely to substantially increase its property inspections over the next four years in an effort to reduce its exploding exposure level. The company wants to trim back the number of policyholders it is carrying across the state. Citizens is expanding its effort to reduce its Florida homeowners’ insurance exposure while it hacks back the number of properties it is covering. It intends…