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What's Wrong With Florida?

Florida has a high concentration of older residents and a history of being a place where some have gone to try to take advantage of others.

By Allison Bell | Updated on October 24, 2010

An avid reader called us here in the Hoboken, N.J., office of National Underwriter and said, “I live in Florida. Why is it that every questionable life insurance and annuity sales practice seems to start or take off here?”

Our Hoboken office happens to be a block from the Hudson River, where mobsters made many a soul sleep with the fishes. The city’s youngest mayor ever was sworn into office July 1, 2009. He ran the city for 22 days before being arrested by the FBI in a corruption probe. He is now serving a 24-month sentence in a minimum security federal prison.

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