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Monday, December 16, 2024
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We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have hiked our rates beyond all recognition while slashing our coverage. Recent reporting from around the state digs into the crisis.
Leading healthcare journalist Laura Beil, the creator of the Dr. Death podcast, is back with another blockbuster patient safety piece in Texas Monthly.
Consumer reporter Diana Zoga with NBC 5 in DFW has broken the story of a major insurance company telling a consumer they would have to purchase auto insurance to keep their homeowners insurance coverage. This "forced bundling" hurts consumers by limiting their choices. We stated in the article, "Any insurance company scheme that requires us to buy two policies from them is anti-consumer."
Matt Grant, investigative reporter with KXAN, and his team recently explored a fight brewing at the Texas Capitol between corporate lobbyists and Texans in harm's way on our roads. His
Texas is suffering an insurance crisis of the insurance industry's making.
The Texas Legislature is grappling with how to address sky-high homeowners and auto insurance rates. Recent hearings in the Senate Business and Commerce Committee and House State Affairs Committee have shown the need for real insurance reform that keeps insurance companies from taking advantage of Texas families.