Capitol to Courthouse Florida Insurance Report: Monday, April 8
Apr 8, 2013
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Daily Florida Insurance-Related Events
Florida’s 2013 Regular Legislative Session
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There are no Florida insurance-related events scheduled for today.
Daily Florida Insurance-Related News
Attempts to regulate parasailing will die again this year
An effort to regulate parasailing companies – begun five years ago after a death off the coast of Pompano Beach – is almost certain to die again this year.
Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, trying to bridge the health care gap
When it comes to the federal Affordable Care Act’s promise of billions of dollars to enroll more people in Medicaid, Senate President Don Gaetz, R-Niceville, is like a man in a valley looking up at two opposing points of view.
- Black caucus, labor, NAACP join Medicaid push
- Florida House Speaker Will Weatherford: Florida Governor Rick Scott Hasn’t Talked With Him About Medicaid Expansion
- Blog: Specialty License Plates Moving In The Slow Lane
A Department of Children and Families senior manager awarded a multimillion dollar contract to track Medicaid eligibility to the behemoth auditing and financial consulting firm Deloitte, against the official recommendation of the negotiating team, even though the competing bid was $5 million less.
Contention Setting In As Florida Legislative Session Moves Along
One Republican state senator became so incensed when Democrats opposed his elections bill he claimed personal insult.
Blog: Quietly, talk of corporate-tax reform bubbles in the Capitol
Florida could raise an extra $70 million a year in revenue by preventing multistate and multinational companies from using payments to themselves to avoid the state’s corporate-income tax, according to a new study by state economists.
How Governor Scott’s budget compares with House, Senate plans
The proposals are in, and now state lawmakers will spend the remaining weeks of the 2013 legislative session piecing together a compromise before time runs out.
Fighting Begins for Panhandle State Senate Seat Open in 2016
It might be a long way off, but two Republican members of the Florida House are already positioning themselves in a contest for a state Senate seat that comes open in 2016.
Gulf coast counties agree to proposed arrangement with governor on oil spill money
Twenty-three Gulf Coast counties have agreed to a proposed arrangement with Governor Rick Scott for administering possibly millions of dollars from BP PLC for economic and environmental restoration from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Florida Legislative Leaders ID Toughest Vote Cast
With just over three weeks of the 2013 session remaining, Sunshine State News asked six of the state’s most prominent lawmakers to tell us what the toughest votes were that they’ve had to take in the course of their legislative career.
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA: Five Questions For Newly-Minted Congressional Candidate Gwen Graham
Gwen Graham, daughter of former Florida Governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham, has never run for office, but isn’t exactly a political newcomer.
Lenders Likely Next Target in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reinsurance Kickback Probe
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s enforcement actions against four large mortgage insurers are likely just the start of efforts against an alleged widespread mortgage insurance kickback scheme that involves several lenders.
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