08-04-2025
Florida lawmakers continue to press on in state's insurance investigation
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WFLA) — The insurance investigation continues at the statehouse with another hearing in the books.
Lawmakers forge ahead, demanding more answers around who to hold accountable after the bombshell reporting revealed Florida insurers were shifting money while claiming to be broke.
Even after a second hearing, the investigation wrapped up, there seems to be unfinished business.
In the first hearing of the insurance investigation, lawmakers probed again and again the same question: Why wasn't the report released to the legislature during an insurance crisis?
Office of Insurance Regulation Commissioner Michael Yaworsky claims the report was imperfect.
'Why we didn't make the particular findings of this report to you is mainly because it was in draft, and we don't make a business of providing information that we believe to be inaccurate or imperfect to the legislature,' said Yaworsky.
However, in the second hearing of the investigation last week, the author of the study said it was actually complete.
State Rep. Daniel Alvarez (R- Hillsborough County) questioned Jan Moenck, 'It is inaccurate for them to have said you were not finished, so either they weren't telling us the truth or you weren't telling the truth, which one was that?'
Moenck, the author of the study, said that in her mind, she thought they had a final draft.
'In our mind, we had our final draft,' said lawmakers say there is clearly a big discrepancy between the two stories, both parties seem to agree that it is up to the client to decide when a report is finished.'What we feel is our responsibility is to provide, in our mind, a final draft to the client, and then they can take that and do with that what they want,' said Moenck.
'Will we be going back to OIR, being that what is being revealed basically says they lied to us, they had a completed report and did not let us know that it was completed,' questioned State Rep. Dianne Hart (D-Tampa).
With even more concerns at the forefront, what's next for the investigation?
Committee chairman Brad Yeager said there will be at least one more hearing scheduled to further investigate these concerns.
Aside from the investigation, House Rep. Philip Wayne Griffitts (R-Panama City Beach) filed HB 881, which aims to follow the money in insurance concerns following the investigation.
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