{"id":292,"date":"2003-07-24T15:53:42","date_gmt":"2003-07-24T23:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/24\/the-insurance-industry-under-oath\/"},"modified":"2003-07-24T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2003-07-24T23:53:42","slug":"the-insurance-industry-under-oath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"The Insurance Industry under oath"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Calpundit<\/a>, this interesting article from the Florida Sun-Sentinal<\/i>.<\/a><\/p>\n

The state Senate, in a rare state of alertness, held two days of hearings with the unusual proviso that witnesses testify under oath.<\/p>\n

….What happened after that “was pretty scary,” said Sen. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, the Senate minority leader.<\/p>\n

“People who had testified before us on previous occasions got up there and told us different things.”<\/p>\n

The president of the state’s largest malpractice-insurance company said no, insurers didn’t need a cap on jury awards to be profitable. A state regulator said no, there hasn’t been an explosion of frivolous lawsuits.<\/p>\n

A state insurance regulator surprised senators by saying he often depended on insurance companies’ information when deciding whether to raise rates. “So you rely on the fox to guard the henhouse,” grumbled Sen. Walter “Skip” Campbell, D-Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n

And guess what? Contrary to stories of doctors quitting the business, the number of licensed doctors is increasing. A Health Department official said new applications for new medical licenses in Florida rose from 2,261 in fiscal 2000 to 2,658 in fiscal 2003.<\/p><\/div>\n

As Kevin says, “legislatures ought to make testifying under oath standard practice.”.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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