Category: Archive – News
Mar 8, 2010
The Miami Herald published this article on March 7, 2010. With a waiting list for Florida mental health facilities, a state debate is emerging on whether illegal immigrants should have the same rights to public healthcare as legal residents. BY …
Mar 8, 2010
The Miami Herald published this article on March 8, 2010. A Coral Gables couple are indicted a second time on charges of stealing the private records of patients to sell to lawyers for personal-injury claims. BY JAY WEAVER Last year, …
Mar 5, 2010
The South Florida SunSentinel published this article on March 5, 2010. The Florida Senate’s insurance committee narrowly struck down a proposal from Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw this week that would allow his office to participate in insurance rate hearings. …
Mar 5, 2010
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune published this article on March 5, 2010. By STEVE POCIASK Guest Columnist If an insurance company sold you a homeowners policy knowing that, if disaster was to strike, they probably couldn’t pay your claim, you would call …
Mar 5, 2010
The Miami Herald published this article on March 5, 2010. BY SCOTT HIAASEN The federal government has called American Pain a “pill mill.” But the Lake Worth pain clinic operated more like a factory, churning through 250 patients a day, …
Mar 5, 2010
The Miami Herald published this article on March 5, 2010. Florida CFO Alex Sink attempted to cast the state’s multibillion-dollar Medicaid fraud problem as a vulnerability for rival Bill McCollum, as both run for governor. BY MARY ELLEN KLAS AND …
Mar 5, 2010
The Florida Current published this article on March 5, 2010. Gary Fineout The amount of money that state lawmakers will have for road-building and other transportation projects is sinking a new forecast shows. State economists with the Office of Economic …
Mar 5, 2010
The Florida Current published this article on March 5, 2010 Bruce Ritchie The Senate Community Affairs Committee on Thursday passed SB 1742 but only after Sen. Mike Bennett offered an amendment to remove language dealing with last year’s controversial growth management …
Mar 4, 2010
The Miami Herald published this article on March 4, 2010 BY SHANNON COLAVECCHIO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau The proposed constitutional amendment to freeze class size counts is expected to clear its final Senate committee Thursday, paving the way for an early …
Mar 4, 2010
The Miami Herald published this opinion piece on March 4, 2010. BY MARK B. ROSENBERG Recent Gallup poll findings that 20 percent of Americans are either unemployed or employed part time are a sobering reminder of the challenges ahead to …