April 16, 2025

An Op Ed by Katelyn Ferry

I am an attorney who represents and defends property insurance carriers, but first, I am a consumer and Floridian.

Reversing historic changes that are lowering insurance premiums for hard-working families will be a disaster for policyholders and our state.

For years, insurance premiums only went one direction — up and up again and again due to meritless litigation.

The domino effect threatened our state’s economy and the ability of people to live here.

Lawmakers made bold and historic reforms in recent years, capped by House Bill 837 in 2023 which eliminated “one-way fees” that allowed attorneys to file hundreds of thousands of unnecessary lawsuits with the knowledge that they would lose nothing and stand to gain guaranteed legal fees.  It is what I refer to as “spaghetti litigation.”

Let’s throw it against the wall and see what sticks, without regard to the claim’s merits, just to recover attorney fees.

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