Category: Florida Insurance and Political Headlines

Governor. Rick Scott has a little more than a week to act on the remaining 19 bills from the 2018 Session, THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA reports via FloridaPolitics.com. http://floridapolitics.com/archives/260281-rick-scott-faces-deadline-on-final-batch-of-bills

Insurance companies can get information about a house’s exterior square footage, roof type, roof condition, changes in a home and more – all thanks to the use of machine learning to analyze aerial imagery, Alex Knapp reports for Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2018/04/02/this-data-startup-uses-artificial-intelligence-to-figure-out-if-your-roof-is-in-decent-shape/#466d191159db

Registrations for the first two months of 2018 include 11 re/insurers and one intermediary, Insurance Journal reports. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2018/04/03/485100.htm

An Atlanta man is warning people about an insurance loophole that is making him foot the bill of thousands of dollars in damages after a group of teens turned his rental house into a party house.  https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/man-says-short-term-rental-policy-cost-him-thousands-of-dollars/725454292

Thanks to Senator Jeff Brandes and other lawmakers, the state has laid an aggressive groundwork to make Florida attractive to the companies building and testing autonomous vehicle technology.  The Tampa Bay Times’ Caitlin Johnston reports for “The Buzz” blog. http://www.tampabay.com/news/transportation/Florida-law-allows-driverless-vehicles-Does-the-law-go-too-far-_166914400

Commercial airboat rides had been largely unregulated, and the state didn’t require operators to have licenses or complete specific training courses.  The Sun-Sentinel’s Skyler Swisher reports. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-reg-ellie-law-signed-20180330-story.html

Instead of doing immediate inspections, the Agency for Healthcare Administration has no plans to change its existing schedule for license reviews, which sees facilities inspected once every two years, The Miami Herald’s Elizabeth Koh reports via the Tampa Bay Times. http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/04/02/after-12-elders-died-nursing-homes-get-generators-but-when-will-they-be-inspected/

The largest victim in the case was First American Title.  Paul Brinkmann reports for the Orlando Sentinel. http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/brinkmann-on-business/os-cfb-brinkmann-fraud-20180330-story.html

The “resign to run” bill could affect local and state lawmakers running in a Miami congressional district, the Tampa Bay Times’ Lawrence Mower reports for “The Buzz” blog. http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/03/30/rick-scott-signs-resign-to-run-bill-vetoes-his-first-bill-of-the-year/

A Tampa Bay Times analysis of campaign spending shows some candidates are spending more liberally than others. http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/03/30/long-before-the-voting-starts-florida-governor-candidates-spend-millions/