Category: Florida News

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Monday, January 12

Jan 12, 2009

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   OIR Issues Final Order Denying State Farm Rate Increase The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) issued a Final Order today, January 12, 2009, affirming the ruling of …

OIR Issues Final Order Denying State Farm Rate Increase

Jan 12, 2009

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) issued a Final Order today, January 12, 2009, affirming the ruling of an administrative law judge regarding the rate filing challenge issued by State Farm Florida. To view a copy of the OIR’s …

Insurance-Related Meetings for the Week of January 12-16

Jan 12, 2009

  Insurance-Related Meetings:  Week of January 12-16, 2009   Monday, January 12   Florida Department of Financial Services Rule Hearing The Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Consumer Services has issued a Notice of Development of Rulemaking regarding the …

Florida Department of Financial Services Rule Hearing

Jan 12, 2009

Florida Department of Financial Services Rule Hearing The Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of Consumer Services has issued a Notice of Development of Rulemaking regarding the following Rule: 69J-166.031: Mediation of Property Insurance Claims Mediation of claims for the …

Florida Not Out of Woods Yet with Wildfire Threat

Jan 9, 2009

Claims Journal–January 9, 2009 Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson is advising residents that below-average rainfall for the last four to five months has significantly increased the state’s wildfire risk. The torrential rain associated with Tropical Storm …

Medicaid slashed as demand soars

Jan 9, 2009

Orlando Sentinel–January 9, 2009 Aaron Deslatte and Josh Hafenbrack Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE Part of the Florida Legislature’s prescription for weathering the worst recession in three decades amounts to this: If you’re poor, don’t get sick. Florida’s hospitals and nursing homes …

United’s Cover Florida plan wins approval

Jan 9, 2009

Florida Times-Union–January 8, 2009 By Jeremy Cox State regulators late Wednesday OK’d United Healthcare’s individual health-insurance plan for Cover Florida. The state-sponsored insurance program debuted Monday with six private insurers offering 25 stripped-down, low-cost plans. United was one of a …

Crist policy director promises big effort on Cover FL

Jan 9, 2009

Florida Health News–January 8, 2009 By Christine Jordan Sexton TALLAHASSEE — Early miscues that bedeviled the Cover Florida kickoff this week were only to be expected in a new program of this magnitude, the governor’s health care point man said …

Capitol to Courthouse Headliners: Friday, January 9

Jan 9, 2009

  To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Bill introduced asking for $2.35 billion to improve hurricane research U.S. Representatives Alcee L. Hastings, D-Miramar, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Miami, today introduced a bill authorizing $2.35 billion to …