Insurance industry groups sought to stave off an increased government role for insurance against natural catastrophes in a House Financial Services Subcommittee hearing last week.
At the hearing, members of Congress–including three representatives from Florida and Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss.–appeared as witnesses to offer their views on problems facing homeowners along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, and how the government can help ease the situation.
Rep. Taylor–who has filed a lawsuit against State Farm over the handling of his own claim–again blasted the industry's claims practices, and charged that only those homeowners who stayed to watch their houses destroyed in the storm were treated fairly by insurers.
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