TALHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) – Insurance investigations will continue at the State Capitol, with another book hearing.
Lawmakers went ahead and asked for more answers as to who is responsible after bomb reports revealed that Florida insurance companies are changing money while claiming they are breaking.
Even after the second hearing, the investigation was finished, but it appears that there is an unfinished business.
During the first hearing of the insurance investigation, lawmakers looked into the same question multiple times. Why wasn’t the report released to Congress during the insurance crisis?
Insurance and Regulation Director Michael Yawersky argues the report is incomplete.
“The reason why you didn’t give you a specific result of this report is primarily because it was a draft and because you don’t have a business providing information that you think is inaccurate or incomplete to Congress,” Yaworsky said.
However, at the second hearing of the survey last week, the study authors said it was actually completed.
“It’s inaccurate for them to say you’re not finished,” state Rep. Daniel Alvarez (R-Hillsboro County).
Mornke, the author of the study, said in her mind that they thought there was a final draft.
“In our minds, we had the final draft,” Moenck said.
Lawmakers say there is clearly a major discrepancy between the two stories, but the parties seem to agree that it is up to the client to decide when the report is completed.
“Our responsibility is that our responsibility is to provide our clients with a final draft, in our minds, and they can take it and do what they want,” Mornk said.
“We’re going back to OIR. What’s revealed is that they basically say they lied to us, so they had a completed report and didn’t let them know that it was finished,” said Rep. Dianne Hart (D-Tampa)
With more concerns at the forefront, what will be next for the investigation?
Committee chair Brad Jaeger said there will be at least one more hearing scheduled to investigate these concerns further.
Aside from the investigation, House Rep. Philip Wayne Griffitz (R-Panama City Beach) filed HB 881.
