Seen in the Orlando Sun-Sentinel:
Florida’s no-fault insurance law survived its first vote during a special legislative session Wednesday, with two more panels to weigh in today on whether to revive mandatory personal-injury protection automobile coverage for the state’s drivers.
Drivers should take note of a change that could cause confusion. PIP, as it’s known, would die for four months until the revamped system takes effect Feb. 15, under a new deal between House and Senate negotiators.
The result likely would be any accident between now and then would be settled by lawsuits to determine who was to blame.
The House Insurance Committee on Wednesday endorsed bringing back PIP with a few changes and beefed-up anti-fraud measures by an 11-1 margin.
Apparently the outlook of this proposal is far less certain in the Florida Senate , with the article quoting a source putting the bill’s chances at 50/50.
Meanwhile, I’m beginning to see a flaw with one of my fundamental political beliefs.
You see, I’ve a fan of deadlock in legislative bodies, arising when no political party has sufficient political power to overcome the other party, thereby (in theory at least) preventing legislative folks from causing too much mischief that would affect ordinary folks.
Unfortunately, that theory doesn’t preclude the possibility that a legislative body could have a collective will to do “something”, but insufficient agreement on the details of what “something” is. Such a situation creates additional wasteful and stressful chaos, as seems to be the case in Florida when discussing PIP.