This gives public outcry a whole new meaning.
An unhappy Citizens Insurance Property Insurance Corp. customer has written a song in protest to the state-run insurer, after it dropped coverage of his carport.
Kevin Roth, a folk singer from Oakland Park, was shocked when he found out that Citizens would no longer insure his carport and screened porch, part of a wide-ranging coverage change enacted by the company last year.
“I wrote the song to say to people ‘Wake up,’” he said. “I’m not looking to get famous out of this. I’m looking to get the point across. This isn’t a publicity stunt. I want coverage [from Citizens].”
The chorus from the song: "Oh Citizens Insurance is the catastrophic wind / They should spell their names, C-I-T-I- S-I-N!! / They dropped all the coverage of my porch and car port too /Thank you Gov. Rick Scott for everything you do!"
The video shows intertwined images of blowing hurricane-force winds, bundles of cash, the Citizens logo and Gov. Rick Scott, who Roth blames, in part, for his insurance woes.
Protest songs are the least of Citizens’ woes:
Last week, policyholders filed a lawsuit against Citizens, alleging that the state-run insurer overcharged homeowners by inflating the replacement values of their properties. Citizens has denied the charges.
The House passed a new 'surplus lines' bill earlier this month, that would allow out-of-state, unregulated insurers to take policies out of Citizens, but critics have called it an “unbridled attempt to deregulate our insurance market.”
Citizens, with about 1.5 million policies, is exposed to more than $500 billion in potential claims.
Here are the lyrics to Roth’s song:
CITIZENS INSURANCE
(C-I-T-I- S-I –N- S)
Music & Lyrics By Kevin Roth.
Copyright 2012 Kevin Roth Music/BMI
When hurricane winds blow, I use to trust and know
My insurance would be there for me, to cover me and so
I paid my monthly dues, and hoped I heard good news
That the hurricanes would never come, but now I’ve come to know…
CHORUS: Oh citizens insurance is the catastrophic wind
They should spell their names, C-I-T-I- S-I-N!!
They dropped all the coverage of my porch and car port too
Thank you Gov. Rick Scott for everything you do!
How will the elderly pay for what may come
How will those in impoverished times, gather up the sums
Needed to repair what was covered once before
Citizens insurance is a rip off of the poor!
When it comes to Mother Nature, what will be will be
When it comes to state insurance, it’s screw the public need
Well citizens insurance, what goes around comes around
May the mighty wind of public cries finally BLOW YOU DOWN!
lol wait until the next big one blows (and it will) and homes do not get rebuilt because we no longer have the private insurers that we chased out of State around to pay like they did in 1992, 2004 & 2005 and all the years in between, then the elderly will go to Tallahassee and burn it down and chase Charlie Christ down for putting all the real insurance companies on a rail outta State.
Posted by: Roman | February 14, 2012 at 03:34 PM
Citizens insurance denied my claim because of mold.And now my wife and two children which are now four and five have been homeless since oct. of 2011.I thought my family was safe , But due to greed of big insurance they conjure up exclusions that cancel coverage such as the mighty 14 day exclusion.My policy covered mold!!!!!!Citizen insurance is a evil empire that cannot be stopped!!!!!!
Posted by: Cori | February 17, 2012 at 08:01 PM