Office Approves Removal of up to 93,500 Policies from Citizens
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) has approved the removal of up to 93,000 personal residential policies and 500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) by the following four companies:
Citizen’s Personal Lines and Commercial Lines Accounts are mostly non-coastal properties and the Coastal Account are coastal properties. The take-out periods are March 24, 2015 for personal residential impacting both the PLA/CA policies and March 17, 2015 for commercial residential impacting both the CLA/CA policies. This is part of the state’s ongoing effort to reduce the number of policies in the state-created Citizens and transfer them to the private insurance market.
Today’s announcement brings the total number of policies approved for take-outs in 2015 to 409,008. In 2014, the total number of policies approved for take-outs was 1,109,644 and the number of policies removed from Citizens as of December 19 is 416,623. By statute, policyholders may choose to remain covered by Citizens during take-out offers; however, they may be at risk of higher assessments.