Category: Archive – Seminars
Apr 8, 2008
The Senate General Government Appropriations Committee will hold a meeting on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 from 1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. in Room 401 of the Senate Office Building, The Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida. Insurance-Related bills to be discussed include: SB 2156: Relating …
Apr 8, 2008
The Senate Health Policy Committee will hold a meeting on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 from 3:15 p.m.-4:45 p.m. in Room 301 of the Senate Office Building, The Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida. Insurance-Related bills to be discussed include: SB 1598: Relating to …
Apr 7, 2008
Florida Today–April 6, 2008 State Senate right to rein in property insurers still ripping off homeowners Everything’s taking a back seat in Tallahassee this year to the budget crisis, but the issue of affordable property insurance hasn’t gone away. Consumers …
Apr 7, 2008
Herald-Tribune–April 6, 2008 For more than a decade, Allstate Insurance Co. kept a secret from its auto policyholders — a national strategy to force customers to accept reduced cash payouts or face years in court. Thousands of pages of Allstate …
Apr 7, 2008
South Florida Sun-Sentinel–April 5, 2008 South Florida Sun-Sentinel Editorial Board ISSUE: Lawmakers grapple with more reforms. “Run for the hills” would be appropriate advice, except there are few hills in Florida, and almost all are in the northern part of …
Apr 7, 2008
Naples Daily News–April 6, 2008 By MICHAEL PELTIER TALLAHASSEE — In the world of insurance regulation, this was a big, BIG deal. A Florida appellate court last week upheld the state Office of Insurance Regulation’s decision to bar Allstate Insurance …
Apr 7, 2008
Ruling spurs the insurer to post thousands of pages of documents on the Web By John Hielscher and Paige St. JohnSTAFF WRITERSHerald-Tribune–April 5, 2008 A state appellate court Friday freed Florida to ban Allstate from writing new policies in Florida. …
Apr 4, 2008
 Legislative Meetings The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee will hold a meeting on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 from 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. in Room 412 of the Knott Building, The Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida. Insurance-related bills to be discussed include: SB …
Apr 3, 2008
Florida Today–Apr. 3, 2008 Rockledge insurance agent Carl Moulton is selling more homeowner’s insurance lately but making less money from it. More people are shopping, if involuntarily. And premiums for many are dropping — along with agents’ commissions. Credit a …
Apr 3, 2008
St. Petersburg Times–Apr. 2, 2008 By Jennifer Liberto, Times Staff Writer TALLAHASSEE — As Poe insurance companies sank toward insolvency after two record hurricane seasons, Poe family members and managers were not just collecting hefty payments, they were also flexing …