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Sixty percent of Florida voters want government to keep a closer watch on property insurance companies. A Quinnipiac Poll released today shows Floridians believe insurance is getting more expensive and harder to get. The poll didn’t take into account new changes to state law that allow insurance companies to raise rates 15 percent without state approval. Pollster Peter Brown says voters want the state to rein in insurance companies.

“They also say they, by a solid majority they would like more government regulation as a way to curb those problems,” said Brown.

Thirty percent of the 11-hundred voters polled say the state is doing enough to regulate insurance companies. Industry experts say giving companies more freedom over rates will better prepare the companies to handle storm damage from a major hurricane.