Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company/Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Company has requested a 95.7% average statewide rate increase for its homeowners insurance. The requested rate increase is not uniform and some areas are subject to ...

 

DEPARTMENT OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
OIR – Insurance Regulation

The Office of Insurance Regulation announces a public hearing to which all persons are invited:

DATE and TIME: August 25, 2006, 1:00 p.m.

PLACE: Cabinet Meeting Room, Lower Level, The Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida

CONTACT NAME AND NUMBER: Lori Fitzsimmons, Esquire, [phone] or Sam Coskey, [phone].

GENERAL SUBJECT MATTER TO BE CONSIDERED: Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company/Metropolitan Property and Casualty Insurance Company has requested a 95.7% average statewide rate increase for its homeowners insurance. The requested rate increase is not uniform and some areas are subject to a higher rate increase. Florida law allows the Office of Insurance Regulation to hold a public hearing for any purpose within the scope of the Insurance Code deemed to be necessary. Input from the insurers as well as interested parties will be received at this public hearing. If you are unable to attend this public hearing, please forward your comments to the Office of Insurance Regulation at [e-mail]; the subject line of your e-mail should read “Metropolitan 06-06924.”

Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this hearing, please telephone or email Sam Coskey at [phone] or email at [e-mail] at least 48 hours before the hearing.