Category: Archive – Seminars

Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation Rule Hearing

Oct 8, 2008

> Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation Rule Hearing The Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Workers’ Compensation, has issued a Notice of Proposed Rule regarding the following Rule: 69L-6.009: Forms and Instructions The purpose of the proposed Rule is …

Cardinal settlement yields $16 million for DEA in mid-FL

Oct 7, 2008

Florida Health News–October 6, 2008 Cardinal Health’s pharmaceutical-distribution center in Lakeland, which lost the legal right to dispense controlled drugs ten months ago following a Drug Enforcement Administration investigation, will get its DEA license restored as part of a $34 …

NCCI Workers’ Compensation Rate Hearing

Oct 7, 2008

> NCCI Workers’ Compensation Rate Hearing The Florida Department of Financial Services, Office of Insurance Regulation ("OIR"), has issued a Notice of Workshop Hearing regarding the workers’ compensation rate filing made by the National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. ("NCCI"). …

Hurricane fund crisis could put homeowners at risk

Oct 6, 2008

Herald Tribune–October 5, 2008 By Paige St. John SARASOTA – When Florida lawmakers expanded the state’s hurricane fund in 2007 to force lower premiums, they tied the ability to deliver billions in insurance coverage to something as volatile as tropical …

State Farm to trim auto insurance rates in Florida

Oct 6, 2008

Orlando Sentinel–October 4, 2008 By Julie Patel | South Florida Sun-Sentinel   State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., the largest automobile insurer in Florida, will slightly lower its statewide average annual premium this month, the insurer said Friday. The rate cut, …

Taxpayers on the hook for $400M in liability if the big one hits

Oct 6, 2008

Charlotte Sun and Weekly Herald–October 5, 2008    By TERRY O’CONNORNorth Port Assistant Editor PORT CHARLOTTE — A fourth consecutive Florida hurricane season without a cataclysm like Hurricane Charley continues to place homeowners on more even footing with their property insurance …