Comments on: The Tallahassee Reports Daily Briefs: Monday, July 31

By: A Skeptic

A Skeptic — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 13:41:55 +0000

@TG —
The man “supposedly” was trespassing on the tracks.

Isn’t that where most people get hit by trains? Doubt there is anything to suppose here.

Headline — MAN STRUCK AND KILLED BY TRAIN.

Story lead — A man died about 5:00PM yesterday after apparently being struck by a train. Law enforcement stated that “we’re positive that the man was struck by a train. While collecting evidence, multiple officers reported having seen the train’s tracks!”

By: Steve Elliot

Steve Elliot — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 02:05:48 +0000

The problem with insurance or 50% of the problem with insurance is the lawsuits by the lawyers that actually rip the consumer off in the long run. Most states have two to three lawsuits a day while Florida has approximately 350 lawsuits a day and it’s not about hurricanes.

By: Thomas C. Hooker

Thomas C. Hooker — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 20:42:43 +0000

“Calling for change after a string of shootings”….Never mind that the person who is quoted is a HUGE BLM fan.

Must be the police of the guns, huh?

By: NE Moderate

NE Moderate — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:47:45 +0000

And the establishment city commr majority wants to raise taxes even more! We are paying too much already just to live here

By: Little Flower

Little Flower — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:15:02 +0000

IMO, the push to demonize gun ownership is a power grab by certain government officials. With the help of media, these officials highlight “gun violence”, downplay other violent crime and ignore news of lives saved by gun owners. At the same time, these officials are very soft on crime which increases crime including crimes committed with guns. If enough people can be convinced that gun ownership is the cause of all this “gun violence”, perhaps, the population can eventually be disarmed.

At this point, there is no limit to a government’s power over the population. Think of the images, we’ve all seen, of unarmed people (citizens) being forced onto trains, into concentration camps, etc. by uniformed people (government) holding guns on them.

By: Nicholas Weed

Nicholas Weed — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:45:30 +0000

Why doesn’t Governor DeSantis remove our State Attorney for his display of incompetence at the Amelia Island Chamber junket 2 years ago? I don’t see how he was not disbarred for that one.

Last time I had jury duty we were still wearing masks and I mistook the prosecution’s table for the defendant’s table. The defendant looked more credible than the prosecutor.

They were railroading some poor black girl for something Sheriff Campbell and Sheriff Harvey used to get away with on a weekly basis. When called on by the prosecution I gave them a piece of my mind on how unfair this state attorney’s office has always been. Of course that’s one way to get out of jury duty, but I didn’t see the defendant in lock up the next day due to her acquittal.

This prosecutor has always had a problem discerning as he prosecutes the innocent and doesn’t prosecute the criminals.

By: TG Brown

TG Brown — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:40:07 +0000

The man “supposedly” was trespassing on the tracks.

Isn’t that where most people get hit by trains? Doubt there is anything to suppose here.

By: A Skeptic

A Skeptic — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 15:28:06 +0000

@Deep Throat — The damage from Hurricane Ian is estimated at $113 billion. With a statewide population of slightly more than 22 million the per capita share of that bill is over $5,000. Not all the damage is to residential structures and of course not everyone pays homeowner insurance. But the reality is that a family of 4 has a share value of more than $20,000.

Hurricane Andrew came across South Florida as a CAT-5 storm and did about $60B in damage in today’s money.

Hurricane Michael came into the panhandle and did about $30B in damage in today’s money.

Hurricane Ian cam into Ft Myers and did about $113B in damage.

Go look at the history of CAT-5 storm strikes in Florida and the U.S. They’re rare and they do an incredible and expensive amount of damage. That far outpaces the ambulance chasers’ share in this state.

By: Deep Six

Deep Six — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:16:01 +0000

@ A-skep, I live on the Cody Escarpment… I don’t have anywhere close to the risk; my insurance premium should reflect that. We can talk about auto insurance too; they have hurricanes in South and North Carolina as often as anyone else.
We need tort reform in Florida and the Governor knows it because he campaigned on it. Once elected he forgot about our insurance problem and focused on the low hanging, inconsequential, fruit that is the Disney fight.
We always have Hurricanes in Florida, we didn’t always have out of control insurance costs. Only a fool would blame it on the weather.

By: A Skeptic

A Skeptic — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 13:31:19 +0000

@Deep Six — Your homeowners insurance is sky freaking high, like everyone else’s, because Florida has been struck by two CAT-5 hurricanes in the past 6 years. Michael and Ian hit areas that haven’t been hit by a major storm in our lifetimes. Michael tore up most everything between Panama City and Tallahassee. Ian destroyed or damage properties from Ft. Myers to Tampa, and the salt-water storm surge flooded half way across the state.

Insurance companies are like casinos. The play the odds. When we go years without a major storm the insurance rates reflect that. The companies that survived the billions in claims last year are struggling to be profitable again, and to do that the rates have gone up. We can expect the rates to remain high for a bit, then taper off again unless another major storm hits.

I think as little of Morgan and Morgan as anyone else. But let’s blame the ambulance chaser(s) for what they’re really responsible for — billions a year in liability premiums to make millionaires of about 1,000 lawyers.