The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) has recently spoken out against the no-fault auto insurance system in Florida. The state's no-fault system requires that those injured in an auto accident, must pay for their own injuries, no matter who is at fault for the collision.

According to NAMIC, Florida's no-fault system was enacted in the mid-1970s and has resulted in some of the highest insurance rates in the U.S., with the average family paying about $250 more for auto insurance than necessary.

Instead of handling injured motorists' medical bills, the no-fault insurance system:

Results in drivers with health insurance paying for coverage twice over.

Forces drivers to pay 20 percent of their auto accident medical expense up to $2000, even when the accident wasn't their fault, increasing rates for good drivers.

Permits personal injury lawyers to bilk the system by filing lawsuits over trivial disputes to rack-up large attorney fees.

The system will expire in this October, making way for the tort-based system that 38 other states have already instituted.

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NAMIC Opposes No-Fault System

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