A Florida lawmaker who voted to create the task force examining Citizens, the state's home insurer of last resort, urged participants at the group's first meeting to focus on business rather than politics.

State Rep. Alan Hays, a Republican whose district includes parts of Lake, Seminole and Volusia counties, said the state legislature "intended to do a good thing" in enacting a variety of insurance measures during a special session, but that legislation had brought "some terrible unintended consequences."

The task force's main goal, he said should be to help undo those consequences.

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