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No-Fault: Put Out to Pasture?

It has been five years since Florida lawmakers decided to insert a provision into the insurance code calling for Florida's Motor Vehicle No-Fault law to sunset as of October 1, 2007, unless state

By Michael H. Adams | Updated on August 31, 2007

It has been five years since Florida lawmakers decided to insert a provision into the insurance code calling for Florida’s Motor Vehicle No-Fault law to sunset as of October 1, 2007, unless state lawmakers moved to reenact the coverage. Since that time, there has been little movement on the part of lawmakers, carriers, attorneys, or healthcare providers to reach an agreement on whether to keep the law intact or jettison it in favor of a return to the tort system. At this writing, more and more of the players are preparing to see the end of no-fault and face a new world on October 2.

“Everyday it is coming closer and closer to happening,” said William Stander, spokesperson for Property and Casualty Insurers Association of American. “I sincerely doubt that the legislature is going to come into special session if there is no solution in sight that is achievable.” Case in point, he said, is the decision by lawmakers not to pass a PIP bill this session, which would have given lawmakers the political cover needed to sidestep the issue while still having in hand a plan to show their constituents.

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