Probe of Citizens should be widened

There is a lack of oversight and accountability at Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

Citizens President Barry Gilway recently terminated every employee within the Office of Corporate Integrity. These firings came after reports of lavish, non-mission critical spending. Abusing travel expenditures is unacceptable; gutting the watchdog inside the insurer of last resort is incomprehensible.

We find it especially troubling that the four terminated employees were asked to sign additional confidentiality agreements beyond the code of ethics they already signed. The ethics code already addresses handling of confidential information related to claims and underwriting files, personnel files, information technology resources and other information of a sensitive or privileged nature.