About Claude Hanuschak

Even while the Florida House on Friday passed a wrong-headed, destructive overhaul of the state’s Personal Injury Protection system, it is heartening to see how the Senate remains fair and sensible in its pursuit of truly effective reform. While the House bill would drive up consumers’ health care costs and fatten insurance industry profits, the [...]

With just a couple of weeks left before the end of the legislative session, the drive to reform Florida’s no-fault auto insurance system is on an uncertain track. Two competing bills are advancing through the Legislature, but they are so far apart, it’s unclear whether there is enough time to rectify them and come up [...]

As the Florida Legislature nears its halfway point in this year’s session, competing bills aimed at ridding fraud from the Personal Injury Protection system are working their way through key committees in both chambers. And as arrests of cheats who stage fake accidents continue to make headlines, it goes without question that there are those [...]

With the state in the vice grip of a crippling recession, Floridians are getting squeezed everywhere they go – at the gas pump, in the grocery checkout, on the unemployment line, under the crush of tax increases. Amid the pain, the insurance industry has seen fit to jack up rates on a basic necessity for [...]