PIP Message of the Day
September 25 , 2007

Senator Posey to PIP group: Stuff it
- Orlando Sentinel, Sept.  24, 2007

  “I have read your inflammatory and derogatory remarks about lawmakers’ decisions to keep PIP, and your allegations that lawmakers are catering to ‘special interests.’  Fact is, you represent the biggest spending special interest of them all! You insinuate that the rampant insurance fraud will somehow magically evaporate if PIP sunsets. Fact is that the crooks will not find honest day jobs, they will simply shift to BI (bodily injury), where fraud is much more difficult to detect, investigate and prosecute…You may not have been at the Banking & insurance Committee when I offered to tear up the proposed bill if the (auto insurance) industry would provide a written guarantee rates would be reduced for more than just one year. Unfortunately, the industry's response was negative, saying ‘of course we can't do that.’”
 
Source:  E-mail from Senate Banking and Insurance Chairman Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, to Allison North Jones, a spokeswoman for the insurer-backed Floridians for Lower Insurance, Sept. 24, 2007
 
The loss of PIP will result in more expensive auto coverage.  The net result of eliminating mandatory PIP coverage means that insured motorists will wind up paying more for less coverage – a fact State Farm and other major “standard” insurers avoid telling you.
 
Know the facts:  Insurers have increased rates on such optional coverages as bodily injury liability and uninsured motorist coverage, because they anticipate more claims under these coverage. The increases will offset some savings realized by eliminating PIP.
 
Governor Crist, Senate President Pruitt, House Speaker Rubio,
please protect all Floridians by extending PIP or replacing it with another form of mandatory medical coverage.

Governor Crist, Senate President Pruitt, House Speaker Rubio, please protect all Floridians by including PIP in the September Special Session