Capitol to Courthouse Daily Florida Insurance Report: Thursday, March 3
Mar 3, 2011
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The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation today announced the ninth agreement of its kind, which authorizes a reinsurer to post reduced collateral requirements to operate in Florida.
Column: Money trail shows insurers still like Florida
At least 8 major firms re-enter state or grow market share as ‘reinsurers’
Publicly, you’ll never hear a property insurer or industry lobbyists utter a single good word about doing business in Florida.
At a press conference today in Miami, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater joined Miami-Dade County State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle to announce the results of Operation Dark Horizon, the largest Personal Injury Protection bust since the CFO took office.
Florida Governor Scott Asks Supreme Court to Dismiss Rail Suit
On a legal fast track, Republicans question senators’ challenge.
Florida Attorney General Bondi to meet with ACLU on felon rights
American Civil Liberties Union officials are meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi to discuss her proposal to end the automatic restoration of voting and other civil rights to nonviolent felons in Florida.
Representative Fred Costello: Idea is to attract businesses, create jobs
Bills filed to streamline state permitting processes
Business group lobbyist says bills seek to avoid duplication but one environmentalist says they represent this year’s “dirty water bill.”
Florida Senator Hays says bill would help stem “coming tsunami” of commercial foreclosures
Bankers want to do an end-run around the judicial system, which is backlogged and choked by fraud.
Bill would garnish wages of elected employees with unpaid fines
Nearly 300 former public officials owe unpaid fines totaling more than $300,000.
Sweeping bill would boost power of ethics panel to investigate elected officials
A sweeping bill meant to boost the power of the state’s ethics commission has been filed by Senator Mike Fasano.
New Director To Lead Florida Highway Patrol
Lieutenant Colonel David H. Brierton Jr. today was named Director of the Florida Highway
Patrol. Brierton was selected from a field of more than 50 applicants from across the nation.
Tampa voters overwhelmingly OK tax breaks for businesses
Tampa voters Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a referendum that would give the city authority to offer property tax breaks to new companies and existing businesses to expand operations.
Supreme Court refuses to hear illegal immigrant comp case
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a case in which a Louisiana employer sought to argue that federal law prohibits paying state-mandated workers compensation benefits to an illegal immigrant.
Certificate of Insurance Bill Makes Headway in Georgia
Agents in Georgia are urging their representatives to support a bill that would clarify the use of certificates of insurance issued to policyholders.
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