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[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Florida did this to themselves by deregulating parts of the insurance industry and making denials easier so that insurance companies would keep insuring places that are most likely to suffer from the effects of global warming and are in high-risk locations that people refuse to leave from.

Turns out Florida basically said "here, we'll make it so you can keep taking people's insurance payments and give them the illusion of homeowners insurance, but we will make it so you can easily and regularly deny any actual claims."

Classic Florida! 🤣

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 72 points 3 days ago

Welcome to climate change. This is just the tip of the iceberg: things are just going to continue getting worse and worse each and every year.

[–] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 50 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Insurance companies in the US have become a Ponzai scam instead of a service.

[–] justsomeguy@lemmy.world 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

is that a meme or did you accidentally butcher the term "ponzi scheme" which is something entirely different? not saying insurances aren't often a scam. just a different kind.

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[–] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 41 points 4 days ago (7 children)

If your insurance only covers 50% of the property value it is essentially useless.

This is absolutely insane.

Wait until you hear about the deductible... where I am (not earthquake country by any means) the deductible was $80k. I sad pass on that.

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[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 133 points 4 days ago (7 children)

there is absolutely nothing in florida that makes it worth living there

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

They do have a first-class spaceport... Watching a rocket takeoff from there would be the only reason I ever go to Florida.

[–] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 days ago

i went to see a launch in early 00's. it is interesting, maybe worth a trip, but not worth moving there

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 73 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Florida is like an old used car: cheap upfront costs but expensive maintenance costs.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 4 days ago

Florida is like an old used car: cheap up front costs for a dangerous vehicle that you know will eventually fall apart but you act surprised when you lose a ball joint in your front suspension on the highway while doing 120 kph because you ignored your mechanic for the fourth time this year. The look on your face as your car crosses the median and you're about to impact a cement truck.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Alligators tell me otherwise. In fact, they tell me they look forward to having it back to themselves soon.

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[–] LaVacaMariposa@mander.xyz 73 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Florida needs to stop rebuilding in the barrier islands. It's unfortunate for the people that live there, but this is going to keep happening over and over again.

Just plant mangroves and let them do their job of protecting the mainland.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stop building on the coasts in general. leave them as natural barriers and wonders, rather than having a 800 foot tall hotel 3 feet from the seawater.

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 72 points 3 days ago (17 children)

This is why insurance should be nationalized as part of your taxes.

Anyone thats not a brainwashed rightwing lunatic would see that paying 100-300 dollars a year on taxes would be a hell of a lot better than 100+ dollars a month just to buy a CEO a golden parachute and another yacht

But as long as right wing lunatics are out there literally hunting aid workers and evaluators, its never gonna happen.. because they want misery, pain, and destruction. its why Project 2025 wants to get rid of all of it.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Flood insurance is nationally subsidized. People use it to afford their marina properties in Washington state.

[–] MSids@lemmy.world 53 points 3 days ago (12 children)

I agree with nationalized healthcare insurance, but I don't know if I agree with using taxes to fund an underwriting account for houses in Florida that are guaranteed to get destroyed year after year.

Hurricanes are not getting smaller. Continuing to rebuild in Florida seems like building in the shadow of a smoking volcano.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Insert Bugs Bunny sawing off Florida from the mainland

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Even making it a state plan would work better in Florida than what we currently have. They let private insurers cherry pick the less risky houses, and cover whoever is left with the state plan. Then those private for profit insurers take the premiums, pay big bonuses to themselves, dissolve the company and leave, rinse and repeat. It's a scam.

[–] PlantJam@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The cherry picking is usually a compromise to keep the companies operating in the state at all. If the state says a company must offer coverage for all perils for the entire state or leave entirely, it doesn't take an underwriter to know Florida is a bad bet. There are similar carve outs for windstorm coverage in other gulf coast states, and I think for wildfire coverage on the west coast.

Edit: I couldn't find anything about a single peril state plan for California, but this article describes some of the recent insurance issues in the state: https://apnews.com/article/california-home-insurance-wildfire-risk-premiums-047bdfa514ce93dac83c82735a15554a

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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 55 points 3 days ago (6 children)

Anyone that rebuilds in place after their whole house is destroyed is nuts.. if you get insurance payout.. this is your chance to move.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Insurance companies save money by denying claims on a normal day. Paying to rebuild an entire state would jeopardize the big number going up and thus executive bonuses.

They won't be paying claims. They're not going to pay to rebuild a house that their models say will be knocked down again in 2-3 years by the next "storm of the century." Insurance companies exist to extract wealth, not to help people. And they will always have more lawyers than you.

[–] curiousaur@reddthat.com 6 points 3 days ago

But do they have more lawyers than the banks? Most of those houses are actually the bank's houses.

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago

They also have all kinds of weasel options in their coverage. "Sorry, you were covered for wind, not flood" They'll avoid paying any way they can.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 35 points 4 days ago (11 children)

I’m perfectly fine letting Florida handle Florida’s problems.

[–] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Someone should point out to most of the right wingers that FEMA is socialism

[–] Master@lemm.ee 31 points 4 days ago

Dont worry they voted unanimously to not expand fema right before both hurricanes.

[–] ravhall@discuss.online 18 points 4 days ago

It’s only socialism when the libs get it. Otherwise it’s their god given right.

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Yup. Let the states decide, then pay for it

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[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

Insurance companies: "Wait you actually expect us to provide the service you're paying us for? That's not how this works!"

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 23 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I feel bad for the Tampa homeowner who discovered homes in their neighborhood used to be worth seven figures and are now worth low six figures.

I think we all predicted that kind of thing would happen somewhere someday, and Florida is one of those top places on the list, but even so, we should be sympathetic. You never really think this kind of thing is going to happen to you, after all. Best of luck to everyone whose homes were destroyed.

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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Who could have seen this coming?

The insurance companies saw this coming. That's why they have the clauses that exclude flood damage.

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 25 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If only climate scientists had warned us 50 years ago we probably could have done something.

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