Category: Florida Legislative News

Seminole Tribe Offers Florida $1 Billion

Apr 23, 2009

From the Miami Herald (above):  Governor Charlie Crist and the Seminole Tribe offered Florida a financial lifeline: $1.1 billion in cash over two years in return for giving the tribe a gambling monopoly.   With the Florida Legislature currently in …

Florida Insurance Legislative Update: April 22

Apr 22, 2009

  Surplus Lines Bills Accelerate On Tuesday, April 21, 2009, Senate Bill 1894 relating to Surplus Lines by Senator Mike Bennett, was withdrawn from its final two committees of reference (General Government Appropriations and Policy and Steering Committee on Ways …