Originally Posted by
Dovster
Insurance companies tend to look for any reason they can find not to pay out and this travel warning might give them an out based on the travel warning being about "civil unrest" or "civil disturbance".
(I am certain, however, that South Florida is no longer on Berlin's "no no list".)
I don't have much history with insurance companies refusing to pay up. So I'll go with what you say on that, especially as they do have a duty of sort to not pay for claims which aren't covered by the relevant insurance policy.
A German acquaintance got in a car accident in Florida at some point in 1993 or 1994, but I don't recall hearing him moan about his insurance company refusing to pay. I'm pretty sure he would have moaned about it to me if he had to pay out of pocket for the damage.
Was South Florida ever on
Berlin's "no-no list" because of carjackings?
The German Federal Foreign office wasn't in Berlin when I first heard of the official German warnings about the South Florida carjacking problem. IIRC, that part of the German government got moved from Bonn to Berlin closer to a decade after German reunification; that would probably be close to some 6-7 years after the initial German official warning about carjacking in South Florida.