Capitol to Courthouse Florida Insurance Report: Monday, January 30
Jan 30, 2012
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Daily Florida Insurance-Related Events
Florida’s 2012 Regular Legislative Session
- Click here for today’s Senate block calendar
- Click here for today’s House of Representatives block calendar
10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.–Senate Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities. To view the meeting packet, click here.
- CS/SB 1042 relating to Emergency 911 Service by the Senate Committee on Community Affairs; Senator Mike Bennett
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.–House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee. To view the meeting packet, click here.
- HB 409 relating to Alien Insurers by State Representative Ed Hooper
- HB 1065 relating to Annuities by State Representative Doug Broxson
- HB 4169 relating to Insurance Company Excess Profits by State Representative Daniel Davis
- HB 4181 relating to Workers’ Compensation by State Representative Matt Caldwell
- HB 1277 relating to Money Services Business by State Representative Daniel Davis
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.-House Federal Affairs Subcommittee. To view the meeting packet, click here.
- HM 1307 relating to Sarbanes-Oxley Act by State Representative Jeff Brandes
- HM 1321 relating to Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 by State Representative Larry Ahern
- HM 1349 relating to Statewide Implementation of Florida’s Medicaid Reform Program by State Representative J.W. Grant
3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.–Senate Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation. To view the meeting packet, click here.
- CS/SB 466 relating to Coastal Barriers Infrastructure Finance Act by Senator Mike Bennett
- CS/SB 824 relating to by the Senate Committee on Transportation; Senator Charlie Dean
Editorial: Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Needs Immediate Action
For years, Florida’s property-insurance crisis has remained unsolved, with an ever-building mountain of unfunded debt obligations building up, driving up consumer costs, creating unnecessary risk and uncertainty, hampering Florida’s economic recovery and discouraging insurance competition for your business.
Sinkholes in St. Petersburg? Not as rare as you’d think
Everyone knows there are sinkholes in Hernando County, where nearly a third of homeowners in one subdivision have reported sinkhole damage.
Sinkholes become Florida’s latest insurance disaster
It’s the Great Florida sinkhole Lottery and the payouts are big in Hernando County.
A quiet Saturday night. A dark sports utility vehicle eases into the parking lot of a Jupiter private school. The crew goes to work, unscrewing the bulbs of the motion-sensor floodlights and cutting a hole in the school’s chain-link fence.
Blog: Personal Injury Protection insurance fraud explained
Walt Dartland was targeted in a staged accident years ago in Miami, but he knew immediately what was up. Dartland is a former Florida D deputy Attorney General and is now executive director of the Consumer Federation of the Southeast.
Florida House moving ahead with lawsuit protections for physicians
A top priority for the Florida Medical Association has now made it through two committees in the Florida House.
Florida House budget spreads cuts across agencies
The Florida House of Representatives on Friday released a $69.2 billion budget that frees up money for schools and avoids the deep cuts to hospitals proposed by Governor Rick Scott.
Florida Senator Alexander says water district budget cuts last year pleased no one, urges changes
Senator JD Alexander, the powerful Senate Budget Committee chairman, says no one was happy with the law changes made last year that involve budgeting by Florida’s five water management districts — and now he’s supporting new changes.
Decision to move up date of Florida’s primary pays off
An early GOP presidential primary that brought retribution upon the Sunshine State is panning out to be a political “Super Bowl,” reaping cash, national attention and clout for Florida, say Republican Party politicians and leaders.
4 Florida lawmakers fight effort to depose them over election-law changes
Four Florida lawmakers don’t want to talk about their role last year in changing the state’s election law and are fighting a legal effort to make them do so, according to newly revealed court documents.
SunRail groundbreaking draws federal, state officials
The $1.2 billion, 61-mile rail line will run through Central Florida.
New chief executive officer of Ocala Health System dies in airplane crash
P. Allen Golson, 55, who was named Chief Executive Officer of Ocala Health System this month, died and his wife was injured Friday when the small airplane he piloted crashed in an open field near the Ocala International Airport, according to Ocala.com.
Welcome to the five states of Florida. It’s a political behemoth with a diverse population and 10 different, expensive media markets
U.S. Senate Legislation Would Offer Limited Medical Loss Ratio Exemption for Agent Commissions
Revised legislation narrowing the proposed exemption of agent commissions from the healthcare reform law’s Medical Loss Ratio is being introduced in the Senate.
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