If you trust your insurance company, a career politician who now works for an insurance company, or if you trust the government-created Insurance Corporation to look out for your best interests after a home disaster – then you can stop reading this now.
If you are still reading, then congratulations, you are an experienced consumer who lives in the real world. Unfortunately, you are also the target of a legislative assault on your rights. The latest “crisis” that insurers are peddling is alleged abuse of “assignments of benefits.” Assignments of benefits are a 100-year-old property right enjoyed in Florida where an individual entitled to coverage or benefit, like repairing property damage, assigns those benefits to go directly to a contractor or service provider who does the work.
