Category: Florida News
Oct 26, 2011
The following article was published in the Miami New Times on October 27, 2011: Pre-paid auto club offers speeding insurance By Gus Garcia-Roberts Commuting on Florida’s highways often feels like bumper cars with Ferrari engines. So what would happen if …
Oct 26, 2011
The following article was published in the The Insurance Journal on October 25, 2011: More Unfit Floridians Have Driver’s Licenses Yanked By The Associated Press The number of Floridians who have had their driver’s licenses revoked because they are deemed …
Oct 26, 2011
To go directly to the section of your choice, click on a hyperlink below. Other hyperlinks to meeting information, bills and news are noted in bold type. Daily Florida Insurance-Related Events Daily Florida Insurance-Related Bills Filed for 2012 …
Oct 26, 2011
The following article was published in the Wall Street Journal on October 26, 2011: Insurer to reveal rate-hike data By Leslie Scism and Liz Rappaport New York’s largest health insurer has agreed to publicly share the previously secret details of …
Oct 26, 2011
The following article was published in The Florida Current on October 26, 2011: Destination unknown: Casino bill filed but faces stiff opposition By Gray Rohrer The highly anticipated bill to allow three destination casino resorts in Broward and Miami-Dade counties …
Oct 26, 2011
10:00 a.m.–Florida Department of Revenue Proposed Rule Hearing; Proposed amendments to Rule Chapter 12B-8, “Insurance Premium Taxes, Fees and Surcharges”, would update statutory and rule references, remove unnecessary effective dates, remove provisions regarding the emergency excise tax repealed effective January …
Oct 25, 2011
The Florida Automobile Joint Underwriting Association (“FAJUA”) Board of Governors (“Board”) met via teleconference today, October 25, 2011, and voted to defer action on a proposal from SAS, a business analytics software and services company, to provide analytic services …
Oct 25, 2011
Unable to meet a looming November 15, 2011 deadline for the establishment of a Clearinghouse for the collection and distribution of surplus lines premium taxes, representatives of Nonadmitted Insurance Multi-State Agreement (“NIMA”) member states voted in an emergency session …
Oct 25, 2011
The following article was published in the St. Petersburg Times on October 25, 2011: Florida lost 10,000 jobs as stimulus funding winds down By Michael C. Bender Florida has lost about 10,000 jobs as contracts and grants from the federal …
Oct 25, 2011
The following article was published in The Florida Current on October 25, 2011: Senator Gaetz presses on job-creation program Senate President-designate Don Gaetz is pushing for more information about companies that owe taxpayers money for incentive-program jobs that never were …