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The Florida Property & Casualty Association (“FPCA”) Automobile Division will hold a brief thirty (30) minute conference call on September 27, 2007 at 5:00 p.m. to update Members regarding Florida’s No-Fault Law or Personal Injury Protection (“PIP”), scheduled to sunset on October …

Insurance Fraud Weekly ePort Week Ending September 21, 2007 www.InsuranceFraud.org   ——————————————————————————–LEGISLATION & REGULATION * The health committees of the New York Legislature are planning a joint hearing on the state AG’s recent report on home-care fraud. Tens of millions of …

Recently, Governor Crist’s office has held three “interested parties” meetings to discuss various PIP/No-Fault reform mechanisms prior to the statute’s imminent October 1, 2007 sunset.  This office has attended the meetings and maintained advocacy for a PIP sunset, absent meaningful reform.  In …

Insurance Fraud Weekly ePort Week ending September 14, 2007 www.insurancefraud.org ——————————————————————————– LEGISLATION & REGULATION * The Utah AG is asking the legislature for money to hire a special prosecutor and tax-fraud investigator to hunt down companies that duck taxes and workers …

For your review, we have attached a draft “glitch bill” regarding changes to the Financial Responsibility statutes in anticipation of the sunset of the Florida Motor Vehicle No-Fault laws.  This glitch bill is an effort to bring clarity and consistency …

The Florida Property & Casualty Association (“FPCA”) Automobile Division will hold a teleconference on September 14, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. to discuss new developments regarding Personal Injury Protection (“PIP”). The dial-in information is as follows: 1-800-369-1285Code:  02606# Included with this …

The Florida Department of Financial Services Consumer Services Division (“Department”) has indicated that it anticipates the imminent necessity to field consumer questions and concerns during the No-Fault/PIP sunset transition. In order to prepare and provide accurate, complete answers to the …

Insurance Fraud Weekly ePort Week Ending September 7, 2007 www.InsuranceFraud.org ——————————————————————————– LEGISLATION & REGULATION * The California legislature yesterday unanimously voted to add urgently needed state fraud investigators by quadrupling the annual fees insurers pay to fund the state’s anti-fraud …

The Specialty Agents Association (“Association”) released a summary of the proposed legislation that Senator Bill Posey (R- Rockledge) is drafting regarding Personal Injury Protection (“PIP”) coverage.  The proposed legislation is expected to be very similar to Senate Bill 1880 from …

The meeting materials for today’s Florida Property and Casualty Association’s (“FPCA”) 3:00 p.m. teleconference are attached to this e-mail.  Included are the agenda, minutes and a breakdown of Representative Bogdanoff’s bill. As a reminder, the call-in information is as follows: …