Inside Florida's property insurance crisis

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

On Point, News, Daily, Talk Show, Npr

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Florida property insurance is a hot mess. One word: Litigation. In fact, more than 75% of all property insurance lawsuits in the United States originate in Florida. Mark Friedlander and Jeff Brandes join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:00.0	Support for this podcast comes from Geico.
0:02.8	How would you love a chance to save some money on car insurance?
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0:12.9	Simply go to geico.com to get a rate quote
0:15.8	and get started seeing how much you could save.
0:19.2	This is on point.
0:20.4	I'm Megna Chacrabardi.
0:22.0	I keep corals like copy paste.
0:24.1	It's like the builders just went and built the same house
0:26.8	over and over again.
0:28.6	Mandy Wells, her husband and her son,
0:30.9	moved to Cape Coral, Florida in 2017
0:33.8	and they live in one of those copy paste houses.
0:36.7	The three bedroom, two bath 1600 square foot home
0:40.0	was modern and in great condition
0:42.8	until October 2019, when Mandy noticed
0:47.4	that the roof was leaking.
0:49.7	Not good.
0:50.8	Mandy had remembered seeing a roofing ad on Facebook.
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