Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Tuesday, December 7
Dec 7, 2010
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First Home Insurance seeks 39 percent rate hike
Add First Home Insurance Co. to the roster of property insurers seeking a hefty rate hike this year.
Digging deeper for home coverage
The GOP plans to pass bills favoring insurers similar to ones Crist vetoed
Despite five straight years without a hurricane hitting Florida, the Republican-controlled Legislature is set to move quickly to enact a host of changes to help insurance companies.
Florida Supreme Court takes up complicated medical malpractice case
The Florida Supreme Court on Monday heard oral arguments on a case that, if upheld, could broadly expand the scope of a statewide no-fault fund for brain and spinal cord injured children.
Florida Republicans continue fight against Affordable Health Care act
Florida Senate President Mike Haridopolis, R-Merritt Island, who announced he will run for the U.S. Senate in 2012, last week filed a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would “prohibit laws or rules from compelling any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system.”
New York prosecutor in Florida steroid raid faces $75M suit
An upstate New York prosecutor who charged a Florida pharmacy in 2007 with selling anabolic steroids to pro athletes and entertainers is being sued for $75 million by the pharmacists, who claim defamation and false arrest with their indictments now dismissed in criminal court.
Florida Cabinet approves Gainesville biomass plant
At its last meeting Tuesday, the current Florida Cabinet endorsed Gainesville’s proposal to build a 100-megawatt power plant.
Florida officials File Lawsuit Against EPA Over Federal Intrusion into State’s Clean Water Program
Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum, Agriculture Commissioner Charles Bronson, Attorney General-elect Pam Bondi and Agriculture Commissioner-elect Adam Putnam today announced that the State of Florida has filed a lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency over the agency’s intrusion into Florida’s previously approved clean water program.
Blog: Cannon creates Water Policy select committee
With Florida policymakers protesting federal nutrient standards the state has spent a decade trying to develop on its own and preparing to repeal new septic-tank inspection regulations lawmakers just passed last spring, it might look like Florida’s water policy is a bit, oh, disjointed.
Military matters dominate Rick Scott’s first stop on statewide jobs tour
Governor-elect Rick Scott met with defense contractors and military leaders Monday as he kicked off a five-day, 10-city tour of the state’s major job producers.
Florida Senator Mike Fasano irked during tour of grandiose courthouse
Sen. Mike Fasano imagined the opulence of the new courthouse that’s been branded a “Taj Mahal.” But as over the top as he pictured it, the tour he got Monday raised even more questions.
Bank of America to pay Florida $5.2M in bid-rigging settlement
Bank of America will pay Florida $5.2 million of a $67 million multistate bid-rigging settlement.
D.C. firm sues ex-Senate candidate Jeff Greene
Washington political consulting firm Devine Mulvey filed suit in Miami on Friday against former Democratic Senate candidate Jeff Greene, alleging he owes $394,000 for last-ditch media efforts to save his campaign.
21 arrested in South Florida in FBI’s largest ever investment and securities fraud sweep
Bernie Madoff and Scott Rothstein are now household names for their roles in orchestrating money-making schemes that defrauded individual investors.
Katrina-Related Case Loses Class Action Status in Louisiana
The Louisiana Supreme Court recently decertified as a class a lawsuit stemming from Hurricane Katrina that a lower court had previously found met the requirements for class action status.
Texas to Prohibit Discretionary Clauses in Policies Beginning February 1
The Texas Commissioner of Insurance Mike Geeslin has adopted three rules proposed by the Office of Public Insurance Counsel that prohibit discretionary clauses in health, life and disability insurance policies, OPIC announced.