Please oppose HB 401, which creates unreasonably high sovereign immunity limits - $2.5 million per person/$5 million per incident cap.
These unreasonably high limits would create financial hardship for cities like mine while significantly increasing insurance premiums which would become an additional burden on taxpayers.
The ability to collect larger settlements or judgments against government entities will substantially increase liability exposure and incentivize litigation.
It would force cities to either pass the cost on to taxpayers or pay the claim and sacrifice funding for other important programs and services like police and fire.
Municipalities’ budgets are already stretched thin, and this increase could cause serious financial issues, particularly for our smaller cities.
The Florida League of Cities welcomes a discussion on what the appropriate caps for sovereign immunity should be while balancing the impacts on the state and its agencies and subdivisions.
