On Friday we talked about the bills that managed to pass through the legislature, but this session, the real story was what didn’t pass. Thanks to a lot of hard work by consumer groups like Policyholders of Florida and a once-in-a-decade political environment that forces all of our state’s non-cabinet elected officials to answer to voters, we managed to dodge most of the insurance industry’s anti-consumer bills.

While it might be appropriate to break out the champagne, rest assured that the industry will be back again next year fighting to enact this same legislation. With that said, consumer groups, policyholders and public adjusters should be proud of what bills didn’t make it to the Governor’s desk.…

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