CEO Citizens Citizens Property Insurance Corp on Wednesday criticized the company’s use of alternative jury to determine the demands of claims. He called on the accusations of injustice that some lawyers are an effort to cancel the reforms that re -profit to the property insurance industry in Florida.

But Tim Sirio, the president of the citizens and the CEO, spent a little time in discussing a major accusation that the process violates the constitutional right of documents holders that the jury determines the solution to their disputes. This allegation, in a lawsuit by a Bulla holder whose dispute was sent to the committee, caused a judge of the Hilburo Provincial Court Issuing a judicial order In July, the company was prevented from using the process while the case continues.

In a 30 -minute discussion during the meeting of the Citizen Governors Council on Wednesday, Sirio defended the company The use of arbitrators Those who work in the state’s administrative hearings department to report conflicts over the company’s coverage of damage.

Critics claimed that the regime is not fair because new and renewable documents holders do not get an option except to participate when requesting coverage from the alleged insurance company in the last resort. They also accuse his judges, the ruling in the interest of citizens in more than 90 % of the cases that are advancing to a final hearing because the citizens pay their salaries.

Last December, the company’s governor’s council approved a contract calling for the company to spend up to $ 19.3 million to finance the program until 2027.

On Wednesday, Cyrio called on accusations that the judges were biased “a deceptive and non -professional narration that completely ignores the date and practice of the drug”, a system that works in the state for 50 years, and to resolve conflicts on countless government entities. He added that all government entities that use its drug must pay for the service.

“The recent attacks on Dua’s justice are simply one part of a larger strategy to undermine the legitimacy of insurance reforms that did not restore the property insurance market in Florida from the brink of collapse.”

In 2023, the state legislature allowed the citizens to the request of new documents holders and renew the acceptance of a political contestant who gives citizens or documents holders the right to seek conflicts to demand its power. Under the law, citizens are the only insurance company that can ask document holders to accept the contestant with no distinguished discount or other benefit in return.

Since 2024, the company has referred 1,661 cases to Dua, according to the department’s website. No Polita holder requested a hearing of his blood, according to the site.

Sirio noted that the number reaches 1 % of all claims made by documentary holders for citizens.

Sirio said that among the cases referred to to its strong, the citizens reflected his initial rejection or the payment of the claim of the claim and “cut a check to the document holder.” In 52 % of the cases, “the prosecutor’s lawyer dropped their claims before reaching the final listening stage,” he said: “He settles for nothing or my name amount.”

Prosecutors’ lawyers said that citizens usually extend the “ruling” value of $ 250 or $ 500 to settle cases. Prosecutors who refuse the offers open themselves to the rulings that require them to pay the costs of the Citizen Court if they lose in a hearing or even if they withdraw their claims before their sessions.

In a report on July 10, South Florida Sun Sentenil found that citizens won 47 out of 51 cases that have so far advanced to a final hearing.

Cerio focused on 45 cases that advanced to the hearings between January 2 and June 2, as specified in a recent letter by Representative Maxwell Frost, who is looking for information about the citizens’ use of Dua.

Sirio said: “In 25 of 45 cases, we specified that the claim was withdrawn by the insured or the lawyer, or the lawyer appeared in the final session and decided incredibly not to participate or did not provide any evidence; refusing to participate.”

In these cases, the citizens got a victory and many prosecutors were evaluated from the costs of the court. Sirio said that the citizens won the advantages of other twenty cases that began in listening sessions. He called reviews for these twenty cases “to find out what they are … she is supposed to decide a mistake.”

Sirio said that the withdrawals or the refusal of participation were not the mistake of citizens or the judges of Dua. Behavior, “at best, is a late awareness that the claim lacks merit or in the worst case, frankly, it is spent by manufacturing misconduct.”

In June, René Delumbed, a member of the Florida Justice Association, a commercial organization for the prosecutor’s lawyer, told the Sun Sentenil that citizens would not allow document owners who reject one of the offers of $ 250 or $ 500 to withdraw their claims before a scheduled hearing.

Delumbed said at the time that the lawyer for a policy holder who wants to withdraw must be able to call citizens and says: “Hey, my client wants to go out.” He said that the citizens respond, “No, this is no longer on the table. They will do so.

Serio blamed the controversy over his “wrong information” by “the lawyers of some of the plaintiffs and the groups of the prosecutors” who submitted “comprehensive claims of injustice and even the bias in this process.”

He said that these accusations are simply part of a larger strategy to undermine the legitimacy of insurance reforms (2022 and 2023) that undoubtedly restored the insurance market in Florida from the brink of collapse.

Sirio, the lawyer of the prosecutors, who accused them of trying to undermine the effectiveness of the company’s use of the jury. He said that “his comments and criticism are directed towards lawyers who truly participated in trivial and wallet claims,” ​​they paid the installments of the document holders and helped create an insurance crisis in Florida. “

Cyrio said that he must be resolved in his ages within 90 days or less, adding that cases in the state court can take “two to three years” and generate more legal fees for prosecutors.

By challenging the reforms, including Duh, the prosecutors’ lawyers seek to “retract all the good works that have been accomplished.”

If the reforms are canceled, he said: “We will return to the two -numbers insurance days, the private insurance companies will reduce business or leave the state, and we will grow again, as a company, citizens will grow again for more than a million policies.” As of August 31, citizens had 771,916 policies, according to the information presented during the Wednesday meeting.

The citizens’ use of the committee has been suspended since August, when the judge of the Hilzburo County Department agreed to the plaintiff’s claim that the operation was unconstitutional and issued a judicial order prohibiting his future cases until the claimant’s claim was resolved. Citizens have resumed the Zarbian order, but a decision was not taken by the second partial appeal court.

Sirio said that the issue of Hillburo is so far one of more than 100 constitutional challenges raised against the operation that allowed to move forward.

He stopped discussing the advantages of the case when a member of the Governor’s Council asked her, saying, “We are still being paid.”

Sirio said: “We believe that the statute that explicitly authorizes the dissolution of claims through a constitutional state,” Sirio said. “We will believe that it provides a firm, fair and effective process to solve the disputes of documentary holders who no longer should wait for two to three years to decide on their demand.”

Ron Hertybiz covers business issues and consumers of South Florida Sun Sentenil. It can be accessed by phone on the number 954-356-4071 or via e-mail on Rhurtibise@sunsentinel.com.

It was originally published: September 24, 2025 at 4:50 pm EST