Insurance is ultimately a game of musical chairs. For now, there are so many companies and policy types that it’s the boring part at the beginning where everyone mocks the loser but there really aren’t any stakes. The mockery phase will end as companies increasingly become the last holdouts and shareholders start asking why everyone else left but we’re forecasting blue skies.
oh yeah–and the thing is for residents it’s already still really bad. there are people on insurance company number 4 in 4 years (or who have two insurance companies because one has to cover one thing and the other covers everything else), and the state is actively trying to disincentivize joining the lender of last resort because they can’t take on that many policies and it’ll kill the remaining insurers. a bad hurricane this year might genuinely be the thing which kicks off the permanent death spiral here–the market needs years of blue skies to “stabilize”.