{"id":2634,"date":"2025-11-29T13:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/florida-governor-touts-auto-insurance-rebates-tort-reform-success-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T13:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T13:33:20","slug":"florida-governor-touts-auto-insurance-rebates-tort-reform-success-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/29\/florida-governor-touts-auto-insurance-rebates-tort-reform-success-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Governor Touts Auto Insurance Rebates, Tort Reform Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190401527.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20570 lazyload\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190401527-1024x683.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190401527-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190401527-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190401527-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190401527-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2190401527-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>By Jeff Dunsavage<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Senior Research Analyst, Triple-I<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced last week that state regulators have secured nearly $1 billion in premium refunds for Progressive auto insurance policyholders in the state, due to cost savings achieved through litigation reform.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, who signed sweeping tort reform legislation bills into law in 2022 and 2023, said the refunds are a direct result of declining litigation expenses in Florida\u2019s auto insurance market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorida was really considered a litigation hellhole by a lot of folks,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cThat contributed to consumers having to bear more costs with respect to auto insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He pledged Insurance Commissioner Mike Yaworksy is negotiating with other major auto carriers for similar reimbursements to their customers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Florida secures nearly $1B in credits for Progressive auto insurance policyholders, DeSantis says\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9IZLuqi0dCs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Mark Friedlander, Triple-I\u2019s director of communications, told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mynews13.com\/fl\/orlando\/news\/2025\/10\/22\/progressive-insurance-florida-rebate\">Spectrum News Florida<\/a><\/em> that reduced lawsuit expenses has enabled auto insurers to lower average costs and, in some cases, return premium to customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you take that out of the equation \u2014 all of those abusive lawsuits \u2014 this brings down the expenses, and that in turn gets passed along to the consumer,\u201d Friedlander said. \u201cThe consumer wins with legal system reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Learn More:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/litigation-reform-works-florida-auto-insurance-premium-rates-declining\/\">Litigation Reform Works: Florida Auto Insurance Premium Rates Declining<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/florida-senate-rejectslegal-reform-challenge\/\">Florida Senate Rejects Legal-Reform Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/floridas-misguided-investigation-and-what-it-means-for-georgia-tort-reform\/\">What Florida\u2019s Misguided Investigation Means for Georgia Tort Reform<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/florida-bills-would-reverse-progress-on-costly-legal-system-abuse\/\">Florida Bills Would Reverse Progress on Costly Legal System Abuse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/florida-reforms-bear-fruit-as-premium-rates-stabilize\/\">Florida Reforms Bear Fruit as Premium Rates Stabilize&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/how-georgia-might-learn-from-florida-reforms\/\">How Georgia Might Learn From Florida Reforms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/resilience-investments-paid-off-in-florida-during-hurricane-milton\/\">Resilience Investments Paid Off in Florida During Hurricane Milton<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insuranceindustryblog.iii.org\/florida-homeowners-premium-growth-slows-as-reforms-take-hold-inflation-cools\/\">Florida Homeowners Premium Growth Slows as Reforms Take Hold, Inflation Cools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jeff Dunsavage,&#160;Senior Research Analyst, Triple-I Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced last week that state regulators have secured nearly $1 billion in premium refunds for Progressive auto ins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egocene.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}