Category: Florida News
Mar 6, 2009
In response to receiving conditional Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) approval of its plan to withdraw all property insurance business statewide, State Farm Florida Insurance Company and State Farm Florida Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”) filed a petition today, …
Mar 6, 2009
To view a complete story, click on the headline below: Florida Lawmakers want State Farm back, at any price Leaders from both parties urged Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty to try to bring State Farm Florida back into the property insurance …
Mar 6, 2009
Insurance-Related Meetings for the Week of March 9-13 LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS Monday, March 9 Joint Legislative Auditing Committee The Joint Legislative Auditing Committee will meet on Monday, March 9, 4:00-6:00 p.m. in Room 401, …
Mar 6, 2009
The Florida Department of Financial Services issued the press release below on March 5, 2009 regarding its legal action to prevent People’s Trust Insurance’s Managing General Agent from using unlicensed agents to sell its homeowners insurance. Should you have any questions or …
Mar 6, 2009
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Mar 5, 2009
Florida Education Commissioner Eric Smith said that by the end of the week the state should know more about how it can work to get the “state stabilization” money that is part of the massive federal stimulus package.
Mar 5, 2009
Pursuant to February, 2009 Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) correspondence to the Florida Joint Administrative Procedures Committee (“JAPC”), a Notice of Change has been issued today, March 5, 2009, regarding additional revisions to proposed Rule 690-138.005 “Examination of Insurers.” To view the …
Mar 5, 2009
National Underwriter–March 4, 2009 BY PHIL GUSMAN Similar bills introduced in both houses of the Florida Legislature would shift coverage for hurricanes from private insurers to the state-a move that two industry organizations find objectionable. The legislation, HB 1157 and …
Mar 5, 2009
Miami Herald–March 5, 2009 The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A House panel has given the green light to a bill that would set requirements for the use of automatic cameras to fine owners of vehicles that run red lights. …
Mar 5, 2009
Florida Health News–March 4, 2009 By Christine Jordan Sexton Last year, Senator Durell Peaden was Gov. Charlie Crist’s health-care point man. He was primary sponsor of the Cover Florida Health plan and helped the governor in other ways. But Peaden, …