Property and casualty insurers and the mechanisms that support their consumers face quite a storm these days, and it's not coming from the usual places. This one originates on Capitol Hill and from state capitals, with the prospect of fundamentally transforming every aspect of p-c insurance–including the state guaranty fund system.
Since the multiple hurricanes that ripped through Florida in 2004 and the 2005 Gulf Coast catastrophe, insurance has taken its shots from all quarters. As a result, a philosophical struggle seems to have developed that threatens to redirect the p-c industry away from its risk-sharing principles until it resembles something more like a mechanism for transferring income.
Even guaranty funds are not immune to these pressures, finding themselves on the defensive over nonlegislative attempts to stretch the legal definition of covered claims to mitigate the tragedy of company failure.
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