Oh, and one more thing...

Now that the Florida Supremes have overturned Mierzwa, the insurance companies are going to right quick give back all those premium increases that they justified based upon their increased exposure due to, you guessed it, the Mierzwa decision, right? Right? RIGHT? Yeah, riiiiight...

Ouch...

Floyd Landis found guilty of doping, stripped of 2006 Tour de France title.

As much as I hate to see this (just as I hated it when Tyler Hamilton was caught doping), I'm still hopeful about cycling. The fact that the best and brightest are being consistently caught and punished makes me think the sport may actually survive. Are you listening, baseball?

"Plain meaning?" Apparently, not so much...

The Florida Supremes just overturned Mierzwa. It's pretty amazing that two separate Florida appeals courts (Florida Farm Bureau Cas. Ins. Co. v. Cox, 943 So.2d 823 (Fla. 1st DCA 2006); Mierzwa v. Florida Windstorm Underwriting Assn., 877 So.2d 774 (Fla. 4th DCA 2004)) can look at a statute (in this case the pre-2005 valued policy law, Fla. Stat. sec. 627.702(1)) and hold that the "plain meaning" of the statute is that the insurer has to pay the full face value of the policy when the property is a total loss, regardless of what caused the loss, and then the Florida Supremes can look at exactly the same statute and say "no it doesn't."

I guess only the Supremes can do it that way...

Excellence in blogging

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