A.G. Gancarski
Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending his administration’s approach to property insurance, urging people to be “very wary of politicians that prattle that all of a sudden they’re going to come in and be this great solution for it.”
“I think when people prattle about this, ask them what they want to do about it. Ask them for specifics about what they want to do. It’s the most complicated homeowner’s insurance market in the country, maybe in the world,” DeSantis said in Tampa, challenging his critics to say what exactly they would do better
“Ask them what they’re going to do, because what I hear is people do platitudes and then they come up with a trial lawyer subsidy bill that’s going to cause you to pay more.”
The Governor, who advised Floridians to “knock on wood” during the 2023 storm season when he was campaigning in New England for President, said “Mother Nature” could do Florida a solid by turning off the storm machine.
“The No. 1 thing that will help in this is not anything the Legislature can do. It’s Mother Nature. If we have a 10-year period, like we did last decade, where we don’t have any major events, if we have one of those runs, you’re going to see things improve very quickly. If we’re constantly getting hit with majors, you know, that just makes it more difficult,” DeSantis said.
The Governor believes Florida has a “stable market” and previously rejected the idea that global warming or climate change contribute to increased storms, suggesting that Florida has always dealt with rough weather.
“I just think people should put this in perspective. They try to take different things that happen with tropical weather and act like it’s something. There’s nothing new under the sun. You know, this is something that the state has dealt with for its entire history and it’s something that we will continue to deal with,” the Governor said last year.
Yet while there may be nothing new under the sun, DeSantis thinks Florida could use a break from the worst of it.
5 comments
Michael K
July 16, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Says the guy who lives for free in luxurious public housing.
ScienceBLVR
July 16, 2025 at 2:57 pm
It’s the most complicated homeowner’s insurance market in the country, maybe in the world .. oh yeah?
The World?
I imagine some folks in California may argue that point.
I have to admit, I have not heard anyone use the term
“prattle” since my granny 50 years ago. So just another little tropical rain storm? I know several people have been here for decades and are now getting flooded out.
Rather than prattle on about feckless pols, his solution is to do Nothing? Well, he’s sure got the legislature who will go along with that plan.
TC
July 16, 2025 at 3:04 pm
Well, here’s an answer regarding what we can do:
A 2022 report by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation found that, while home insurance companies in Florida were reporting massive revenue losses, their affiliated companies out of state were showing huge gains, as if money were being squirreled out of state to hide the profits. What to do then? Well, Governor, get behind the few legislators who are investigating this racket and stop blaming our nation-high insurance premiums on hurricanes as if we are the only state affected by them.
How’s that for prattle.
FLPatriot
July 17, 2025 at 10:46 am
Says the guy who spends 450M a year on 1 detention center. Imagine if we spent that on Floridians.
tom palmer
July 17, 2025 at 1:14 pm
Even if DeSantis’ stated position is to ignore climate change and sea level rise, it has been on the insurance industry’s radar for perhaps 20 years.