Alberto Dominguez has chimed in on the recent WSJ piece on the Florida property insurance circus, making this eloquent observation:
In sum, what Mr. Crist has done is concentrate the risk of future hurricane losses within his own state government, rather than spreading it around the world through the insurance industry. This is astonishing, given that the Sunshine State accounts for 27% of all hurricane-exposed property in the U.S., worth some $2 trillion. After Katrina, private insurers paid more than $40 billion to 1.7 million policyholders in Florida. But the state government and its taxpayers may end up paying for the next big one largely by themselves.
Let’s see.aren’t we just 35 days away from the start of hurricane season?