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Wed Sep 20, 2017 11:42 am
And yet, FPL claims to be solar-friendly... https://www.fpl.com/clean-energy/solar/community.html
Lyin' dog breaths.
Techdirt picked up the story: Florida Utilities Lobbied To Make It Illegal For Solar Users To Use Panels In Wake Of Hurricanes, Outages
When last we checked in with legacy Florida utilities, they were busy using entirely fake consumer groups to push a law that professed to help the solar industry while actually undermining it.
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In Florida, the average household spends $1,900 a year on power, 40% higher than the national average. Yet incentives or other measures designed to spur solar power adoption are either absent or illegal, in large part thanks to utility lobbying.

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Generators connected directly to house power, if installed correctly, will have an auto-switch that keeps it from interfering with (or being fried by) outside current. Same on my motorhome. If the generator is running and for some unexplained dumb reason I plug into a power source, the generator shuts down.

So I guess if your house is connected solar, it might work the same way?
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So I guess if your house is connected solar, it might work the same way?
Correct.
Again, technically correct, but illegal in Florida.

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rstrong wrote:
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Boatrocker wrote:
Wed Sep 20, 2017 1:37 pm
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Wed Sep 20, 2017 10:55 am
So I guess if your house is connected solar, it might work the same way?
Correct.
Again, technically correct, but illegal in Florida.
Correct. But, again, Florida is a shit hole.
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I'm thinking enforcement might be a bit lax during the Irma clean-up, particularly in the Keys. If I were there, I'd take my chances.

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I'm thinking enforcement would *increase* - by insurance companies looking for a pretext to void policies. There's never been any need to show that the unauthorized electrical work used to void a claim had anything whatsoever to do with causing the claim.

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That, too. The insurance company ain't your friend- they are just a necessary evil, getting more evil over time.
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I have long understood that the insurance company's job isn't to pay claims, but to avoid paying claims. Having said that, however, my personal experience with insurance carriers over the years has been generally positive. My healthcare carriers for twenty years or so have been Aetna and Cigna, and we've had no problems at all despite Lady O having a serious (and expensive) illness a few years back. I've had property claims for trees falling on the house in Florida as well as in NC before we lived here and both were paid to my satisfaction. GEICO has paid 2-3 auto claims over the years without issue. No runaround, no requirement for used parts, just take the car to a shop and give them my policy number and that's it. I've had a couple of claims for Cornerstone coverage on the motorhome and they were covered again without issue.

So maybe I'm lucky, maybe my claims (except for Lady O's medical) weren't big enough to get caught in their deny-at-all-costs software, maybe my carriers are better than some others...I don't know.

I do know what made a big difference in the medical insurance coverage overall, though. When employers started self-funded plans and wrote in their own plan designs, coverage, and administrative rules, leaving the carriers as administrative agents, the carriers started offering plans that were comparable. They started doing better on pre-ex, on exclusions, on preventive coverage, and on claims review, etc.

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Or they started doing worse, as companies downgraded their self-funded plans and insurers followed suit. I have experienced that, myself.
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I can see that. Companies have generally been upping employee contribution and cutting benefits now for years. Smoke and mirrors, whack-a-mole, three thimbles, and sometimes baldfaced lying. But still, most plans will cover a lot of preventive procedures, offer physician office visits with a co-pay (instead of a deductible), and have a prescription plan. Before the employers got into plan design and HMO's came along, a typical "major medical" plan really did have 80-20 cost sharing after a stiff deductible, covered no preventive, and had a fixed day rate for hospital stays. Back then, it was also "one size fits none" and there was no plan choice. Also no plan continuation, such as COBRA.

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A Florida (wo)man...

Tries to run over her daughter's boyfriend after the boyfriend told the daughter about his affair with the mom. :wtf:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fla ... 57832.html

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A Florida (wo)man...

Tries to run over her daughter's boyfriend after the boyfriend told the daughter about his affair with the mom. :wtf:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fla ... 57832.html

Not exactly Mrs. Robinson. :lol:
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A Florida (wo)man...

Tries to run over her daughter's boyfriend after the boyfriend told the daughter about his affair with the mom. :wtf:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fla ... 57832.html

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A Florida (wo)man...

Tries to run over her daughter's boyfriend after the boyfriend told the daughter about his affair with the mom. :wtf:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/fla ... 57832.html
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Although I'm not much of a Crist fan, the author should have included this

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2007/04/06/us/06florida.html

rather than saying, "excepting those rare few given clemency."

Granted what Crist did wasn't what is needed and was quickly resended by criminal teabag Scott, but what is needed ain't gonna happen in 2018.
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Accidentally set himself on fire in a Cowboys jersey??
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-man- ... 38823.html

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cool - this good florida man. I think I'll stop by on my next drive south. I usually drive 19, but may have to go the dreaded 75 one more time

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