Category: Florida News

The South Florida SunSentinel published this article on March 5, 2010. The Florida Senate’s insurance committee narrowly struck down a proposal from Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw this week that would allow his office to participate in insurance rate hearings. …

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune published this article on March 5, 2010. By STEVE POCIASK Guest Columnist If an insurance company sold you a homeowners policy knowing that, if disaster was to strike, they probably couldn’t pay your claim, you would call …

The Miami Herald published this article on March 5, 2010. BY SCOTT HIAASEN The federal government has called American Pain a “pill mill.” But the Lake Worth pain clinic operated more like a factory, churning through 250 patients a day, …

The Miami Herald published this article on March 5, 2010. Florida CFO Alex Sink attempted to cast the state’s multibillion-dollar Medicaid fraud problem as a vulnerability for rival Bill McCollum, as both run for governor. BY MARY ELLEN KLAS AND …

The Florida Current published this article on March 5, 2010. Gary Fineout The amount of money that state lawmakers will have for road-building and other transportation projects is sinking a new forecast shows. State economists with the Office of Economic …

The Florida Current published this article on March 5, 2010 Bruce Ritchie The Senate Community Affairs Committee on Thursday passed SB 1742 but only after Sen. Mike Bennett offered an amendment to remove language dealing with last year’s controversial growth management …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida bill would allow easier climb for property-insurance rates Florida lawmakers are again seeking to loosen rules on property insurers by allowing them to more quickly raise …

  Members of the Florida Cabinet, meeting as the State Board of Administration (“SBA”) and the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Financing Corporation today, March 4, 2010, deferred consideration of a resolution to authorize the issuance and sale of Florida Hurricane …

The Miami Herald published this article on March 4, 2010 BY SHANNON COLAVECCHIO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau The proposed constitutional amendment to freeze class size counts is expected to clear its final Senate committee Thursday, paving the way for an early …

The Miami Herald published this opinion piece on March 4, 2010. BY MARK B. ROSENBERG Recent Gallup poll findings that 20 percent of Americans are either unemployed or employed part time are a sobering reminder of the challenges ahead to …