New polling data in Florida shows that 85% of Florida voters are supportive of the state’s efforts to rein in trial lawyers, which has already shown positive results in lowering insurance costs. 

According to Florida Politics: 

Seventy-five percent of Florida voters, the poll found, believe that personal injury trial lawyers who advertise on billboards and television are more interested in making money than protecting people’s rights. That includes 84% of Republicans and 71% of third- and no-party voters.

As consumer champion, former Florida House Speaker, and PACT board member Paul Renner recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal:

[T]he Legislature acted to end frivolous lawsuits and abusive tactics by lawyers while protecting people with legitimate legal claims. We also enhanced regulatory authority and raised penalties imposed on any insurer that failed to pay customers’ claims properly and promptly. These two major reforms ignored the special-interest fights among attorneys and insurance companies and put the focus where it belongs: on making litigation and insurance rules fair and premiums more affordable for all consumers. 

Leveling the playing field and curbing billboard attorneys’ predatory behavior is good for insurance rates, good for the legal system, and good for consumers.