Capitol to Courthouse Florida Insurance Report: Monday, July 9
Jul 9, 2012
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Daily Florida Insurance-Related Events
There are no insurance-related events scheduled for today.
Florida has more force-placed insurance than other states
Florida led the country in its share of force-placed insurance premiums the past three years, including 35 percent, or $1.2 billion, in 2011 – more than three times the amount sold in the next-largest state, California.
Federal Emergency Management Agency questions $6 million in Miramar claims after Hurricane Wilma
The city could have to repay millions of dollars in federal disaster recovery funds from Hurricane Wilma, making it next in the line of local governments under question.
Weathering the storm: Hurricane preparation key for South Florida businesses
Compuquip Technologies can’t stop for storms.
Personal Injury Protection Reform May Need Court Support to Survive
A flurry of lawsuits is expected as the new aspects of Florida’s personal injury protection auto insurance reform take hold.
Florida joins states fighting ‘prescription tourists’
As he sat in the doctor’s office, ex-boxer and weightlifter Gerald Dixon explained that years of sports had left him in pain, especially his hands, and he was looking for relief.
As state officials moved to close a South Florida hospital specializing in tuberculosis treatment, federal health officials were finding a serious outbreak of the disease among the homeless in the northeastern part of the state, a newspaper reported Sunday.
- Worst Tuberculosis Outbreak in 20 Years Kept Secret
- THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA: Five Questions for Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater
Silver Springs vs. Adena Springs spurs new water war
There is a place being built in Marion County named Adena Springs Ranch that has become a potent symbol in an argument over progress and conservation in Florida.
Florida Power and Light wants to raise base rates for businesses up to 28 percent
Imagine paying more than $1 million a year in electric bills.
Floridians’ paychecks are smaller in 2012, Labor Department report shows
Floridians are earning less and taking more low-wage jobs than they were a year ago, with pay rates dropping more than almost anywhere in the country.
Florida Governor Rick Scott Still Pushing for Inquiry Into Three Florida Supreme Court Justices
Governor Rick Scott is still pushing for an investigation into possible wrongdoing by three Florida Supreme Court justices even after a veteran prosecutor dismissed it as “trifle.”
New website makes access to Florida laws easier
Florida’s laws have been online for more than a decade, open to the public, but now a non-governmental, non-partisan website launched Friday puts those laws in plain language and context, www.sunshinestatutes.com.
THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA: Floridians Banking on Lottery at Record Pace
In a state with leadership strongly opposed to expanding gambling, people are playing Florida’s games of chance at a record clip.
Derivative Reform to Be Finalized This Week
The U.S. swaps regulator is set to finalize this week a critical reform that will trigger banks and traders having to comply with costly new derivatives rules.
North Carolina Lawmakers Pass 4 Year-Ban on Sea Level Policy Changes
After North Carolina lawmakers were ridiculed for their attempts to ignore a state-sponsored science panel that predicted a sharp rise in sea levels, they agreed this week to forbid any state agency to make policies on sea-level change until 2016 and they called for the scientists to do more studies.
Ileana Ledet to Head Louisiana Insurance Department of Public Affairs
Ileana Ledet has been named Deputy Commissioner of Public Affairs for Louisiana’s Department of Insurance.
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