June 17, 2024
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Lauren Coleman-Lochner & Melina Chalkia - Bloomberg
For Filicia Porter, the insurance bills were the final straw. They’d been climbing steeply for her assisted-living business as Florida was battered with ever more-powerful storms, and eventually, the numbers stopped adding up.
So in March, she finally decided to call it quits, shutting the facility near Palm Beach that she opened just two years ago. That came four months after she closed an older location in Port St. Lucie, opened in 2017. Together, they left a dozen residents scrambling to find another place to live.
Reprinted courtesy of Lauren Coleman-Lochner, Bloomberg and Melina Chalkia, Bloomberg