{"id":71392,"date":"2025-12-04T18:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71392\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:36:08","slug":"lee-county-homeowners-to-see-insurance-rates-drop-savings-start-february-2026-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71392\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee County homeowners to see insurance rates drop, savings start February 2026 | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Heritage Property &amp; Casualty Insurance Company announced a rate decrease for Florida policyholders, with some counties experiencing reductions of up to 9.6%. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation approved this change, which will take effect on February 18, 2026.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ernie Garateix, CEO of Heritage Insurance, said, &#8220;This rate decrease is an important change for our Florida policyholders and a sign of our continued commitment to affordable and reliable insurance solutions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Notable reductions include Seminole County with a 9.6% decrease and Hillsborough County with up to a 6.7% decrease. Overall, policyholders will see an average decrease of 3.3%.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In Lee County, policyholders will see a 6.4% reduction.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Garateix emphasized the positive impact of Florida&#8217;s insurance market reforms, saying they enable Heritage to offer meaningful savings while maintaining financial stability.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc. is a super-regional property and casualty insurance holding company with expertise in catastrophe response, serving areas prone to hurricanes, wildfires, and storms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heritage Property &amp; Casualty Insurance Company announced a rate decrease for Florida policyholders, with some counties experiencing reductions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,914],"class_list":["post-71392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}