Category: Florida News

Click on a headline to read the complete story.   New hurricane season starts Friday with 12-day, tax-free holiday on storm items Florida’s least favorite shopping season — hurricane season — might get off to a slow start this year. …

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) released its most recent draft of the Uniform Mitigation Verification Inspection Form (OIR-B1-1802).   This updated version is enclosed for your review. Although similar to its former version, this new draft states that mitigation …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   National Insurance Fund Gains Support WASHINGTON – Unlike Florida’s Capitol in Tallahassee, where lawmakers have taken a number of actions to address the state’s insurance crisis with arguable results, solutions …

On May 24, 2007 this office attended the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Board of Governors Meeting in Tallahassee, Florida. After a reading of the antitrust statement and approval of the April 26, 2007 meeting minutes, Chairman Bruce Douglas gave his …

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation issued the press release below on May 24 regarding the approval of a $1.95 billion financing plan to cover potential hurricane losses. Today’s newspaper headlines on the issue include: Citizens’ board approves $2 billion financing plan Should …

Click on a headline to read the complete story:   Crist slashes $459 million from budget Gov. Charlie Crist has just axed a record $459 million from next year’s state budget, slashing legislators’ hometown spending projects throughout Florida while touting …

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has distributed the meeting notice below.  Should you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to contact this office   To: Interested Parties to the NAIC Surplus Lines Task Force The …

The Finance and Investment Committee of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (“Citizens”) met May 23, 2007.  The proceedings of that meeting are as follows: At 8:00 am, Bruce Douglas, chairperson of the committee, called the meeting to order, and the minutes …

Citizens Board of Governors Meeting 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. May 24 Tallahassee, FL