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PIP Going Down to Wire

September 28th, 2007 by Mike Vasilinda

When the clock strikes midnight Sunday night, Florida will become one of three states that does not require medical coverage for motorists. The sunset of Personal Injury Protect marks the biggest change in 30 years for insurance customers, but as Mike Vasilinda tells us, the reprieve may be only temporary.

Hear it Here: PIP Goes Down to the Wire

Until now to get a tag for your car, you had to present proof of Personal Injury protection or PIP insurance; but with PIP no longer the law, after October 1st, some estimate as many as a million or more drivers will go without insurance. Florida hospitals have been pushing to keep the coverage on the books. Spokesman Rich Rasmussen says consumers should bdeware.  “Because if no fault is allowed to go away every automobile accident is going to have to be a determination of fault. In other words somebody will be responsible for that accident somebody will pay for the damages in that accident.”

House and Senate negotiators did strike a deal to salvage No Fault, but  it is not included in their call for a special session. The governor says he may add it on Monday.
“I have to see what the call is going to be but I am certainly willing to consider putting it in. If it is a part of the call I have said all along that making sure we have coverage for people is important to me.” Crist made the comment an hour before the session call was released.

The end of no fault is being pushed by big insurance companies, who say you will
save money. But other coverages are likely to go up as more lawsuits are needed to sort our who it at fault.

Insurance agents like former Insurance Commissioner Bill Gunter are telling their clients to protect themselves by increasing their uninsured motorist and other coverage limits.
“I think the consumers who have insurance in Florida are going to be the losers if the PIP coverage is sun setting” says Gunter.

Lawmakers do plan hearings on Tuesday. The day after No Fault expires.

The Senate is the apparent reluctant body in the no fault debate. House Speaker Marco Rubio wrote the governor this afternoon, asking him to add not only No Fault, but property tax relief as well to the call for the special session.

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