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Secret study reveals insurance companies pocketed billions while crying poor in Florida
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Secret study reveals insurance companies pocketed billions while crying poor in Florida

An insurance bombshell drops just before session — and Florida lawmakers are angry.

In this episode: Insurance companies in Florida have been quietly pocketing billions of dollars in profits while claiming to lose money, according to an explosive new report from the Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald. The insurance industry used those “losses” as a pretense to lobby Florida politicians into passing a series of industry-written, anti-consumer laws that have left millions of Florida homeowners and business owners paying higher prices for poorer quality policies. And a taxpayer-funded study exposing it all was kept hidden from the public for two years. Tampa Bay Times reporter Lawrence Mower, the journalist who broke the story, joins the show to talk about it.

Show notes:

Florida insurance companies steered money to investors while claiming losses, study says

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