Insurance reform package sails through Legislature — will it fix the crisis?

Florida lawmakers stepped up during a special session on property insurance in Tallahassee in late May, agreeing on a legislative package that capped what attorneys can charge and increased consumer protections in an effort to slow ballooning rate increases and stabilize a teetering market.

The bipartisan legislation, Senate Bill 2D, was co-sponsored by Sen. Jim Boyd, R-Bradenton, who runs an insurance firm, and signed, almost immediately, by Gov. Ron DeSantis.