Rick Scott says property insurance rates 'skyrocketed' in Ron DeSantis' era
Rick Scott again isn’t providing Ron DeSantis much rhetorical cover when it comes to Florida’s property insurance problems.
During an interview that aired Sunday, Scott said that rates had “skyrocketed” in the last four years, a time roughly equivalent to DeSantis’ era in Tallahassee.
“And now what you’ve seen is the cost of property insurance has just skyrocketed, in the last four years,” Scott said on WJXT’s “This Week in Jacksonville.”
“Some people are dropping it. And it’s because they can’t afford it,” Scott added. “That’s really a problem.”
Scott said it was important to “get the prices down” in the property insurance market by “eliminating the fraud,” before offering another shiv towa...
