Category: Archive – Seminars

Senate General Government Appropriations Committee

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 …

Senate Health Policy Committee

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 …

EDITORIAL: Protecting consumers

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 …

How a get-tough policy lifted Allstate’s profits

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 …

OPINION: Allstate policies now in state’s hands

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 …

Court upholds Allstate sales ban

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. …

Insurance-Related Meetings for the Week of April 7-11

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 …

OPINION: Watchdog: Cheaper insurance does exist

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 …

As insurance firms’ money vanished, Poes played politics

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 …