{"id":55309,"date":"2022-09-30T23:34:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=55309"},"modified":"2022-09-30T23:34:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:34:29","slug":"insurance-companies-are-blocked-from-dropping-property-coverage-for-60-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/09\/insurance-companies-are-blocked-from-dropping-property-coverage-for-60-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance companies are blocked from dropping property coverage for 60 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1002\" height=\"668\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/david_altmier.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/david_altmier.png 1002w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/david_altmier-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/david_altmier-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1002px) 100vw, 1002px\" \/><figcaption>Florida\u2019s Insurance Commissioner\u00a0David Altmaier<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the wake of Hurricane Ian, Florida\u2019s Insurance Commissioner&nbsp;David Altmaier has issued an emergency order that will temporarily prevent property insurers from dropping customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order will suspend cancellations or non-renewals of policies for two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBetween September 28, 2022, and November 28, 2022, no insurer or other entity regulated under the Florida Insurance Code shall cancel or non-renew, or issue a notice of cancellation or non-renewal of a policy or contract of insurance covering a property or risk in Florida, except at the written request or written concurrence of the policyholder,\u201d his order said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commissioner issued a similar order in 2017 in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The order will also provide a bit of temporary relief for many homeowners in the state who are fearful of losing their coverage, unrelated to the catastrophic storm which unleashed its wrath on southwest Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents of Florida now have the highest property-insurance rates in the nation. The Insurance Information Institute reports the average premium in Florida is $4,231 \u2014 nearly triple the U.S. average of $1,544.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of Hurricane Ian, Florida\u2019s Insurance Commissioner&nbsp;David Altmaier has issued an emergency order that will temporarily prevent property insurers from dropping customers. The order will suspend cancellations or&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1739],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55313,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55309\/revisions\/55313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}