Category: Archive – Seminars
Apr 25, 2008
‘F’-rated homeowners insurance program continues slide as lawmakers freeze rates again By TCPalm Staff Treasure Coast Palm–April 24, 2008 If Floridians haven’t been crippled enough by the effects of the subprime mortgage fiasco, overbuilding and the rest of the nation’s …
Apr 25, 2008
St. Petersburg Times–April 24, 2008 By Tom Zucco and Jennifer Liberto, Times Staff Writers TALLAHASSEE — Hammered by the courts and threatened with a crackdown by Florida’s insurance commissioner, Allstate Corp. quietly offered the state millions to let the company …
Apr 25, 2008
Legislative Meetings The 2008 Florida Regular Legislative Session is scheduled to conclude on Friday, March 2. The Senate will hold Session on the following dates and times in the Senate Chambers, The Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida: Monday, April 28 from 3:00 …
Apr 24, 2008
Florida Today–April 24, 2008 By Betty ParkerFLORIDA CAPITAL BUREAU A wide-ranging bill that requires large insurance companies to provide coverage for treatment of autism won emotional passage by the full Senate on Wednesday, as supporters pledged to push the House …
Apr 24, 2008
A $300 million infusion salvages 2 programs for the critically ill and the elderly. John KennedyTallahassee Bureau ChiefOrlando Sentinel–April 24, 2008 TALLAHASSEE Bowing to pressure, House and Senate budget negotiators used $300 million from reserves Wednesday to erase sharp cuts …
Apr 24, 2008
Miami Herald–April 24, 2008 By MONICA HATCHER Comparison shopping for a colonoscopy? It could get a little easier under a bill being considered by the state Senate Thursday that would require pricing information from hospitals for 150 of the most …
Apr 24, 2008
Florida Today–April 24, 2008 Every day, I get a phone call about hurricane insurance that goes exactly like this: Caller: “Um, yes . . . I received a notice from State Farm saying they were dropping me.” Me: “Yup. They …
Apr 24, 2008
Miami Herald–April 24, 2008 BY JOHN DORSCHNER Inviting journalists to a construction site near Memorial Hospital West in Pembroke Pines, Florida Power & Light on Thursday showed off its latest efforts to harden its system to protect it from hurricane …
Apr 23, 2008
Florida Today–April 23, 2008 By Paul Flemming FLORIDA CAPITAL NEWS At the end of an odd turn of events Monday the status quo held and Allstate agents were still selling insurance Tuesday, but it remains to be seen whether the …
Apr 23, 2008
The Tampa Tribune–April 23, 2008 By JEROME R. STOCKFISCH TALLAHASSEE – Allstate Corp. is preparing for both favorable and unfavorable rulings on its ability to conduct new business in Florida after an appeals court erroneously released a decision late Monday …