To our Georgia clients/friends/families:
The Georgia Legislature is currently in session and is considering new laws/amending existing laws at the request of the insurance industry to take away your right to be made whole if a bad actor causes you or a family member injury or death. SB 68 is one of these laws. Call your Georgia Senator and Representative today and urge them to vote NO! You can find your representatives’ contact information at one of these links.
https://www.legis.ga.gov/find-my-legislator
This website also explains this effort to take away your constitutionally guaranteed rights for the monetary benefit of insurance companies.
Take Action — Georgia Rights Alliance
The measures proposed do not address and will not lower insurance premiums or curb “frivolous lawsuits”; they will only further increase the record-breaking profits of insurance companies at the expense of innocent Georgians, making it increasingly more difficult for injured Georgians to obtain justice. The legal and Constitutional rights of every citizen in this state should not be limited or infringed upon and wrongdoers not held responsible and accountable for their actions just so insurance companies can add more money to their record-breaking profits (which increased 90 BILLION dollars in 2023 and 120 BILLION dollars in 2024.)
SB 68 is a far-reaching bill that tramples the rights of everyday Georgians and makes it incredibly difficult for them to get access to justice when they are harmed by the wrongdoing of others.
Call or email your state Senator and Representative and please remind them nothing in the Bill requires one dime of insurance premium reduction. It does not freeze rates or address insurance rates at all! This is what it does…it increases insurance companies’ profits by making it harder for you to use your coverage when you need it most. It allows insurance companies to deny and delay payment of your claims. It also provides immunity to dangerous companies for their negligence. Responsibility and accountability are good ideas which hard working Georgians believe in every day as they get up and go to work or care for family members. SB 68 makes it harder to hold wrongdoers who hurt people responsible AND accountable for the harm they cause. This shifts the burden of caring for the harm to us – the taxpayers and away from the wrongdoers. This bill eliminates responsibility and accountability. And it spreads the harm or at least the payment for the hard caused by wrongdoers to the rest of us in some type of “socialized justice” system.
Nothing in the bill requires insurance companies to lower insurance rates nor does it freeze rates or reduce future rate increases. The bill contains nothing to address insurance rates. In fact, Florida passed a similar bill and insurance rates went up 30%! Georgia does not need this bill. Georgia has been listed for 11 years in a row as a “Top State for Business” by Area Development, a leading publication on corporate site selection and relocation of businesses. Despite this top ranking for Business, the insurance industry has lobbied the US Chamber to push tort reform by calling Georgia, without basis in fact, a judicial hellhole. A state cannot be a judicial hellhole and a Top State for Business at the same time.
Please read additional posts on this topic which we will send out over the next few days. But call and email your Senator and Representative now and tell them to vote NO on Senate Bill 68