The person who will be sitting in the governor's chair this coming January will face a myriad of challenges, not the least of which is Florida's troubled property insurance market and other insurance-related issues.
The two main candidates seeking to replace Gov. Charlie Crist have made it clear that neither of them plans to be as confrontational with Florida's insurance industry as the current chief executive. Crist, who campaigned on a promise of lower insurance rates, clashed with some of the state's largest carriers and once famously said "good riddance" after State Farm Florida said it was going to pull out of the state.
That does not mean, however, that Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Naples businessman Rick Scott are in lockstep on either state or federal insurance issues.
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