Category: Florida Office of Insurance Regulation

  Toluse Olorunnipa of The Miami Herald reported this afternoon that a Leon County judge has again blocked part of the landmark auto insurance overhaul (HB 119) enacted in 2012. The complete story is reprinted below.   Should you have …

  Statutory revisions to two forms relating to Personal Injury Protection (“PIP”) insurance were finalized on March 25, 2013 pursuant to HB 119, which overhauled Florida’s No-Fault law last year. Revisions to Rule 69O-176.013, entitled “Notification of Insured’s Rights and …

By Sharlee Hobbs Edwards, Esq.Associate Litigation over the validity of forms used to afford windstorm mitigation discounts to Florida homeowners’ insurance policyholders continued on March 15, 2013 with the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s (“OIR”) filing of an Initial Brief …

  The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) advised that it has filed a Notice of Appeal of Non-Final Order and Notice of Automatic Stay today, March 21, 2013 in regard to Leon County Cir. Ct Case No.:  2013-0073-CA: Myers …

  Today, March 20, 2013, the Second Circuit Court of Leon County granted a motion for temporary injunction in litigation brought late in 2012 by a group of Florida massage therapists and others in the health care community who are …

  A Notice of Correction issued yesterday, February 28, 2013, to proposed Rule 61G20-3.015, F.A.C., “Equivalence of Standards,”  revealed that the current Florida Building Code does not incorporate the ASTM E 1996-05,  a testing standard to which certain hurricane shutters/impact …

  Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty submitted the Office of Insurance Regulation’s (“OIR”) 2013 Report on Life Insurance Limitations Based on Foreign Travel Experiences to the Florida Legislature today, February 28, 2013.  The Report contains results from an annual survey …

  The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) issued final versions of its Model Holding Company legislation today, January 22, 2013. Part of a series of model bills updated recently by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) with the …

  During the Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance (“Committee”) meeting today, January 16, 2013, Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty presented a proposal entitled “Principle-Based Reforms for Florida’s Property Insurance Market.”  To view the presentation, click here. Based on guidance …

  A Florida Office of Insurance Regulation Rule Hearing scheduled for today, January 10, 2013, to review proposed changes to Rules 69O-170.0155 and 69O-176.013 was not requested, and therefore not held. The purpose of amending Rule 69O-170.0155 is to update …