Florida Office of Insurance Regulation Approves Removal of up to 215,488 Policies from Citizens
Oct 1, 2014
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) announced today, October 1, 2014, that it has approved the removal of up to 211,080 personal residential policies and 4,408 commercial residential and non-residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (“Citizens”) as requested by the following nine companies:
- American Colonial Insurance Company — approved to remove up to 22,050 personal residential policies from Citizens’ Personal Lines Account (“PLA”)
- Cypress Property & Casualty Insurance Company — approved to remove up to 23,000 personal residential policies — 20,337 PLA and 2,663 from Citizens’ Coastal Account (“CA”)
- Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance Company — approved to remove up to 20,000 personal residential policies (17,000 PLA/3,000 CA) and up to 600 commercial residential polices from Citizens’ Commercial Lines Account (“CLA”) and CA
- Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company — approved to remove up to 69,000 personal residential policies (24,150 PLA/44,850 CA)
- Mount Beacon Insurance Company — approved to remove up to 29,515 personal residential policies (19,515 PLA/10,000 CA)
- Olympus Insurance Company — approved to remove up to 10,000 personal residential policies (7,793 PLA/2,207 CA)
- Safepoint Insurance Company — approved to remove up to 18,000 personal residential policies (15,000 PLA/3,000 CA)
- United Property & Casualty Insurance Company – approved to remove up to 2,027 commercial residential policies (1,824 CLA/203 CA)
- Weston Insurance Company — approved to remove up to 19,515 personal residential policies in the CA and up to 1,781 commercial residential and non-residential policies in the CA.
The take-out periods are December 16, 2014 for personal residential–impacting both the PLA/CA policies–and December 9, 2014 for commercial residential impacting both the CLA/CA policies. This is part of an ongoing effort to reduce the number of policies in Citizens and transfer them to the private insurance market.
Today’s announcement brings the total number of policies approved for take-outs this year to 1,109,644. The actual number of policies removed from Citizens this year as of August 30, 2014 is 124,995. By statute, policyholders may choose to remain covered by Citizens; however, they may be at risk of higher assessments.
For more information, please visit the OIR’s “Take-Out Companies” webpage at: http://www.floir.com/Sections/PandC/TakeoutCompanies.aspx.
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