Capitol to Courthouse Florida Insurance Report: Monday, April 28
Apr 28, 2014
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Daily Florida Insurance-Related Events
Florida Automobile Joint Underwriting Association Committee meetings; Producer Review Committee — 3:00 p.m.; Audit/Budget/Finance Committee — 4:00 p.m. Tampa, Florida. To view the meeting notice, click here.
Daily Florida Insurance-Related News
New Bill Could Send Property Insurance Higher
Homeowners that want coverage from Citizens Property Insurance could end up with a much more expensive policy from unregulated out-of-state insurers under a new bill passed in the Senate Friday.
Nearly after six years of coming in and out of the courthouse, a woman from the state of Florida in the U.S. has eventually lost her battle over insurance for the “exploding corpse” that she claimed ruined her apartment, Alyssa Ashley Lucas reports for International Business Times.
With rising waters in South Beach, Florida Department of Transportation busy on Alton Road drainage
The Florida Department of Transportation is trying to better understand the impact of sea level rise after a 2012 report prepared for the department by Florida Atlantic University warned that some roadways, bridges, airports and railways in Florida are vulnerable. The Miami Herald’s Alfonso Chardy reports.
Police writing fewer traffic tickets in Florida
The latest statistics from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles show police wrote about 5 percent fewer traffic tickets last year than they did in 2011, WPTV’s Fran Gilpin reports via Naples Daily News.
Florida budget leaders move closer to agreement
Florida lawmakers continued to meet on Sunday to haggle over next year’s $75 billion budget, and showed signs they were close to some significant deals, Tampa Bay Times’ Kathleen McGrory and Michael Van Sickler report.
It’s the final week of the 2014 legislative session and as all racing fans know, there will be burnouts and duels, surprise developments and sneaky moves but it all comes down to the finish, sine die, on Friday, explains the Miami Herald’s Mary Ellen Klas for the “Naked Politics” blog.
Weatherford v. Gaetz in immigration feud reflects broader GOP divide
Florida’s two Republican presiding officers not only represent the Legislature’s two chambers, they are a reflection of the generational and ideological differences that make up today’s Republican Party, explains the Miami Herald’s Mary Ellen Klas for the “Naked Politics” blog.
Ex-RPOF boss Jim Greer’s tell-all, “The Chairman,” to be released June 1
Timed to coincide with the 2014 gubernatorial election, the story of the disgraced chairman of the Republican Party of Florida will be released June 1, SaintPetersBlog.com’s Peter Schorsch reports.
Daphne Campbell Now Faces Crowd of Foes in Miami-Dade House Race
Miami-Dade Democrat Daphne Campbell is now facing political peril as she takes on three new foes and still has an extremely unimpressive fundraising operation, Jeff Henderson reports for SunshineStateNews.com.
Investors place bet on insurers’ catastrophe bonds
A new deal offered last week by Allstate, the biggest publicly traded home and auto insurer in the US, helped push year-to-date issuance of cat bonds to $4.75 billion, Financial Times reports.
AT&T Licensed for Captive Insurance Operations in Texas
The Texas Department of Insurance has licensed Gateway Rivers Insurance Co., the captive insurance subsidiary of AT&T Inc., Insurance Journal reports.
Why governments are afraid of Uber and Airbnb
Airbnb is part of a suite of new companies – among them Uber, Aereo, HomeAway and Lyft – that are frequently described as constituting the “sharing economy.” It’s a poor term at best. None of what these companies do is “shared,” because nothing is free; everyone is in it to make some money, explains Slate.com’s Zachary Karabell via the Tampa Bay Times.​
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