Category: Florida Insurance and Political Headlines

The SmarterSafter Coalition, a group of insurance, taxpayer, environmental and housing organizations, repeated its call that a permanent fix is needed.  Reuters’ Ginger Gibson reports via Insurance Journal. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2018/03/25/484318.htm

Economists have tended to view immigration as a mitigating factor in estimating the negative impact of the labor shortage.  Insurance Journal’s Andrew G. Simpson reports. https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2018/03/26/484326.htm

September’s strike of Hurricane Irma was one of the strongest storms Florida has ever seen, Christian Camera tells SunshineStateNews.com. http://sunshinestatenews.com/story/cat-fund-and-other-pre-irma-insurance-decisions-allowed-florida-avoid-economic-disaster

A Florida court has reversed a decision concerning deductibles, ruling in favor of insurance companies rather than health care providers.  Amanda Thomas reports for the Florida Record. https://flarecord.com/stories/511367242-florida-appeals-court-reverses-ruling-in-insurance-case

Even Andrew Rubinstein admitted he was motivated by greed when he got involved in an elaborate $23 million auto insurance fraud that operated for years in chiropractic clinics in South Florida.  AutoBodyNews.com reprints Paula McMahon’s Sun-Sentinel story. http://www.autobodynews.com/index.php/southeastern/item/15103-greed-drove-23-million-auto-insurance-fraud-at-chiropractic-clinics-in-fl-feds-say.html

Proposals to end greyhound racing, ban drilling in state waters and grant additional rights to crime victims are moving one step closer to becoming law.  Kevin Robinson reports for the Pensacola News Journal. Packaging, wording key for ballot proposals https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2018/03/22/florida-constitution-revision-commission-picks-25-proposals-advance-draft-committee/449721002/

Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that could put to rest years of legal and regulatory fights, FloridaPolitics.com’s Drew Wilson reports. Pro-Israel bill, new public records exemptions among 38 Scott signs http://floridapolitics.com/archives/259480-rick-scott-signs-trauma-center-bill

Miami Republican State Representative Carlos Trujillo was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States by the U.S. Senate on Thursday.  The Miami Herald’s Alex Daugherty reports via the “Naked Politics” blog. http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2018/03/miami-republican-lawmaker-confirmed-as-us-ambassador-to-oas.html

The months-long litigious affair began with a simple public records request under Florida’s decades-old Sunshine Law — a statute heralded nationwide as a tool to keep governments honest.  Kimberly Miller reports for the Palm Beach Post. https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/how-government-agency-trying-stop-residents-demanding-records/ljczJRevg6GKH5MjrpOvoJ/

With such close elections in Florida, pundits, political scientists and campaign operatives are taking notice, but here’s why it may not add up to much.  The Tampa Bay Times’ Adam Smith reports. http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/03/23/a-democratic-wave-from-younger-voters-and-puerto-ricans-dont-bank-on-it/