Category: Insurance Regulatory News

Dozens of doctors in South Florida are allowed to hand out addictive painkillers while also treating drug addicts with special medications — a mix of services that troubles experts on drug addiction. BY SCOTT HIAASEN Miami Herald–December 29, 2009 State …

The Miami Herald published this Letter on December 29, 2009. BY JACK LOWELL Jack.Lowell@flaglerdev.com Florida is taking part in a high-stakes competition with the other 49 states to bring up to $700 million in national education funding to the state. …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida Attorney General to look into proposed insurance requirement Attorney General Bill McCollum has ordered his staff to check the constitutionality of the requirement in the federal health …

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) announced today, December 29, 2009, that it has entered into consent agreements with two insurers who violated Florida’s Military Sales Practices Rule by selling non-compliant Flexible Dollar Builder Life Insurance Policies to active …

The Miami Herald published this article on December 29, 2009 BY KIMBERLY MILLER Palm Beach Post When South Florida hosted the Super Bowl in 2007, the average hotel room cost $499 a night. For the 2010 game, Davona Lynch would …

THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA published this article on December 29, 2009. By MICHAEL PELTIER THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 29, 2009…Starting Friday, companies that provide loan modification services must be licensed or face a fine under a law that kicks …

The Miami Herald published this article on December 29, 2009. BY DAVID FLESHLER Sun Sentinel The Seminole Tribe has applied for a permit to expand a rock mine in a remote corner of northwest Broward County in a proposal that …

Reminder:  The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) Climate Change and Global Warming Task Force has requested comments on the following documents related to the NAIC Insurer Climate Risk Disclosure Survey (“Survey”) by Friday, January 8, 2010: Cover letter explaining …

THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA published this article on December 28, 2009. By DAVID ROYSE THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 28, 2009…..Nearly three years ago, the overwhelmingly Republican Legislature did something that seemed to some a little un-Republican. Lawmakers had been …

To conform to law passed in 2006, the Florida Department of Financial Services, Division of State Fire Marshal will consider proposed Rules to extend the compliance date of Section 399.15, Florida Statutes (also known as Florida’s “Elevator Safety Act”) to …