Some of the largest U.S. insurance companies say extreme weather has led them to end certain coverages, exclude natural disaster protections and raise premiums

  • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    If insurers are refusing to cover disasters, then mortgage lenders should be unable to force buyers to buy (useless) insurance

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      silly cat, that’s not how big business collusion and corruption work. mortage lenders will continue to force prospective homeowners to cover and maintain insurance on their properties even if it causes them to default on their payments, then they’ll sell the homes again to flippers or multinationals.

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      And bankrupt and dispossess the lender if a disaster happens to their newly acquired home?

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      mortgage lenders are going to have to do something. Like require natural disaster be part of the policy. Otherwise they will have people walking away from mortgages after disasters.

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      then they would lose income, not going to happen. let’s be honest, premiums will go up and coverage will go down.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
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    1 year ago

    Paying for insurance in places like Florida is going to essentially equate to throwing money straight into a fire.

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      The thing about insurance is that when it’s properly regulated, they’re able to pay the claims (and actually do so)

      Toss out the regulation, and insurance becomes worthless.

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        Humans just don’t comprehend large sums of money. Taxation created the Interstate Highway system, it sent us to the moon. The masses giving relatively small amounts of money can and does move mountains.

        But instead of empowering elected representatives (that we can vote out) to do insurance, we instead farm it out to for-profit insurance companies and, inevitably, attorneys. THIS IS TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

        We mandate that everyone buy automobile insurance (the masses thereby being taxed) and then when all that money floods in, capitalism is beholden to keep as much of it as possible, so the insurers start fucking the insured with “claims adjustments.” Enter the attorneys, who smell the size of the payroll because that’s what attorneys do - and they sue the dogshit out of the insurers to get a piece of the action, ostensibly because they just care so much.

        Think about how much money is wasted throughout this process due to incompetence, corporate greed and filthy lawyers. When you watch ad-supported television (if you do) think about what percentage of the commercials are for attorneys that exclusively sue insurers. Imagine how much money those commercials represent. Now realize that both the insurers and the attorneys make money hand over fist despite the inefficiency of this deeply stupid dance.

        But government isn’t the answer to the problem, amirite?

    • Notnotmike@beehaw.org
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      I was thinking about this earlier this week, in a sense. Not quite insurance but throwing away money.

      The federal government is going to be providing aid and assistance during and after the hurricane, and I couldn’t help but think about how the more mild, less disaster-prone parts of the country are effectively subsidizing people to continue to move to Florida, despite how unlivable it really is. As Florida grows more the rest of the country has to pay too, it doesn’t just affect Floridians