Category: Florida Department of Financial Services

  The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team (DFSAT) have been deployed across the state to protect Floridians from post-storm fraud that could occur in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Alberto, according to a statement from Florida …

Florida’s government is challenging a Leon County circuit judge’s ruling that part of a 2016 law imposing new requirements on life insurers is unconstitutional. Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis and the Florida Department of Financial Services have filed a notice in …

Ahead of Invest 90L’s potential impact, Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis stresses the importance of understanding insurance coverage and financial preparedness. As Floridians finalize their preparations, Patronis reminds Floridians to include copies of insurance policies in their 2018 Hurricane Season disaster …

As the 2018 hurricane season approaches, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis reminds Floridians to contact his Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team (DFAST) if they suspect they may have fallen victim to insurance fraud during their recovery after a hurricane. …

Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis is trying to bring the public into his campaign to force disclosure of lobbying targeting Citizens Property Insurance Corp., Florida’s property insurer of last resort. Patronis wrote to Citizens executives earlier this month, serving notice of his …

Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Sha’Ron James will host the fourth and final Emergency Medical Transportation Working Group meeting on October 31, 2017 in Tallahassee. The Insurance Consumer Advocate formed the 13-member Working Group in October 2016 to study the impact …

  In a report requested by U.S. House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster and Ranking Member Peter DeFazio, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) recommended that the U.S. Department of Transportation (“DOT”) take steps to assess and …

  The Florida Division of Insurance Agent and Agency Services issued a Notice of Change today, July 6, 2017, on Rule 69B-250.002, “Qualifications of Mediators,” which is one of three proposed Rules relating to Florida’s property and auto insurance claim …

  The opportunity to submit written comments is open until July 5, 2017 on proposed Rules relating to the certification of neutral evaluators used in neutral evaluations for sinkhole insurance claims in Florida. Subsection 627.7074(18), F.S. was amended in 2016 …

  The third meeting of the Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate’s Emergency Medical Transportation (“EMT”) Working Group is in progress this morning, June 13, 2017, until 1 p.m. (ET) in Tallahassee. To view this today’s agenda, click here. To access the …