Citizens insurance
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Citizens Insurance
Citizens Insurance, or Citizens, is the popular name of the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a government owned body in the State of Florida that was created to provide an insurer of last resort for homeowners who could not obtain insurance elsewhere.
As more and more companies have pulled out of the Florida market due to the extraordinary number of hurricane and sinkhole related claims over the last few years, Citizens has become not the insurer of last resort but the insurer of only resort for many Floridians. The cost of insurance and its availability has thus become an important "hot button" issue in Florida, especially in the 2006 elections.
From their web site: In 2002, the Florida Legislature passed a law that combined the Florida Residential Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association (FRPCJUA) and the Florida Windstorm Underwriting Association (FWUA). This resulted in the creation of Citizens Property insurance Corporation (Citizens), whose goal is to more efficiently and effectively provides insurance to, and serve the needs of, homeowners in high-risk areas and others who cannot find coverage in the open, private insurance market.
