We don't win in State Farm vs. Charlie Crist

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State Farm / Florida: Insurance Intelligence?

June 24, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

* Executives at large insurance organization are accountable for KPI’s to stakeholders; not for providing “socialistic goods, regardless of the financial considerations”.

A Christ Veto Likely a Body Blow to Floridians

June 16, 2009

Analysis by: GLG Expert Contributor

Put all your eggs in one basket? That's what a veto by Governor Christ would do to Florida's hurricane insurance market. His veto would serve to concentrate risk, putting the liability into fewer hands. These "hands" are the now fewer remaining private insurance firms and the citizens of Florida. Level the playing field? Not Christ's veto. Those more at risk (coastal dwellers) will be subsidized by those less at risk (central Floridians). This is a tax on the less wealthy to support the opulent homes of the wealthy coastal inhabitants.

John David CoffeyPresidentDavid Coffey Agency, Inc.

Left alone by government, markets will always find the way to profitability.

June 16, 2009

Too much government interference and dictation has put a massive, Florida employing company in such a frame of mind that it will probably leave Florida even if Tallahassee changes it's tenor.