Florida leaders blame insurance crisis on lawsuits, but evidence is thin. (Tampa Bay Times)

Immunized from equal protection of our criminal laws by a dubious 1945 Congressional exemption from our antitrust laws, reversing a June 6, 1944 Supreme Court decision, on D-Day, which rightly found that the "business of insurance" is covered by our antirust law.  The 1945 Congressional exemption, in the McCARRAN-FERGUSON ACT, was obtained by influence of "Know-It-All" but "Know-Nothing" lobbyists from the insolent American insurance cartel, avaricious insurance companies have evaded the 1944 Supreme Court decision finding insurance companies are exempt from antitrust laws.  Corrupt, Jew-hating, Nevada U.S. Senator PATRICK McCARRAN, a Democrat who opposed the New, Deal, sponsored this unjust law, the sort of sordid law enacted frequently in corrupt regimes -- the sort of law that Saint Augustine said was "no law at all." McCARRAN's moviedom simulacrum, Senator Patrick Garry, played by G.D Spradlin, was in Godfather II, recently had his name taken off the Las Vegas Airport, replaced by the name of the late beloved U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid.  So glad that Anne Schindler is now, as of this morning, leading WJCT's First Coast Connect, where repeated insurance company propaganda was perpetrated by Michelle Ross, otherwise a good host of the program.  Do NPR affiliate WJCT and Florida Dull Republicans, including former St. Johns County Congressman RONALD DION DeSANTI$, act like orotund, other-directed obnoxious louche lobbyists for the insurance cartel? More examples here and here  and here. What do y'all reckon?

From  Tampa Bay Times:

Florida leaders blame insurance crisis on lawsuits, but evidence is thin

Fighting lawsuits was Florida’s response to the insurance crisis, but evidence hasn’t materialized.

Barbara Glover sits at the site of what used to be her home in the Ybor City area of Tampa on Sept. 22. Glover’s home was damaged after a tree fell on it during Hurricane Ian last year, and the city condemned it. [ CHRIS URSO | Times ]

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• Lawrence MowerTimes staff

Published Oct. 19|Updated Oct. 20

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TALLAHASSEE — Barbara Glover narrowly missed being crushed by the oak tree that fell through her roof during Hurricane Ian last year.

As she fled her Tampa home of 35 years, clutching nothing but a duffel bag of clothes, she knew what to do next.

She called her insurance company, Universal Property and Casualty. And she waited for them to make her whole.

After months of feeling jerked around by the company and seeing her home condemned by the city, she took her case to court. In February, Glover became one of 4,571 people — 15 per day — to sue Universal this year.

As property insurance premiums rose to become a full-blown crisis for Floridians in recent years, the primary response by Gov. Ron DeSantis and state legislators is to stamp out those lawsuits.