Category: Florida News

Captives Seek IRS Change Of Mind

Dec 26, 2007

BY ARTHUR D. POSTALNU Online News Service, Dec. 26, 1:13 p.m. EST Groups representing captive insurers made a concerted appeal to the Internal Revenue Service asking it to withdraw a proposal that would change the way captives deduct losses, saying …

President Signs TRIA

Dec 26, 2007

BY ARTHUR D. POSTALNU Online News Service, Dec. 26, 4:01 p.m. EST WASHINGTON —President Bush today signed the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act extending the federal backstop on terrorism risk insurance until the end of 2014. The bill (H.R. 2761 – …

President Signs TRIA

Dec 26, 2007

National Underwriter Magazine Online reported this afternoon that President Bush has signed H.R. 2761–Terrorism Risk Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2007.  The bill extends the current program through 2014 and adds coverage of domestic terrorist events to the program. Should …

Indigent legal-cost savings plan is rejected

Dec 26, 2007

BY SUSANNAH A. NESMITH AND GARY FINEOUT A circuit court in Tallahassee tossed out the Legislature’s plan to save money by appointing special public defenders to represent indigent defendants who can’t be represented by the elected public defenders in each …