Must-Pass Workers’ Compensation, AOB Reform Languishing in Legislature With House and Senate Leaders caught up with Budget Negotiations ahead of Friday’s Deadline for Adjournment, Advocates for Legislative Fixes for Assignment of Benefits and Workers’ Compensation Reform confronted this possibility:  …

  Call Insurer Citizens “AOB Refugee Fund of Florida,” Amendment Says They call Alabama the Crimson Tide, but how about State-Run Citizens Property Insurance Corp.?  A Proposed Amendment Filed Monday on a State Bill says, “The Corporation is Officially Recognized as the …

APRIL 2017 Here’s your update on Florida insurance-related legal developments from the Colodny Fass Insurance Litigation Practice. Florida Insurance Matters is a monthly update on Florida insurance-related legal developments by the Colodny Fass Insurance Litigation Practice, recently recognized as the …

  Florida House Advances Bill Targeting Claims Abuse, But Senate Battle Looms A Bill aimed at Decreasing Insurance Claims Abuse in Florida has made it through the Florida House, and the Industry’s hope for Assignment of Benefits Reform now officially …

  Insurance Agents Expecting to Write More South Florida Policies With State-Run Citizens Get used to the idea that more South Florida Homeowners will be forced back to State-Run Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the So-Called Insurer of last resort.  The …

  Florida House Assignment of Benefits Reforms Move Closer to Final Vote The House cleared its version of Assignment of Benefits Reform for a Final Vote Tuesday, defeating an Amendment that would have Frozen Property Insurance Rates and required a …

  Florida is On Fire, But Homeowners Stand Down From the Worst Evacuation orders have been lifted in Collier County where a brush fire has been raging over the weekend along with two others in Lee and Polk Counties and …

  Florida Senator and Insurance Public Adjuster Frank Artiles Resigns Senator Frank Artiles Resigned from the Florida Legislature on Friday, consumed by a Scandal that erupted three days earlier over a diatribe of insults the Miami Republican unleashed against Two Lawmakers at a …

  As Congress weighs reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program (“NFIP”), it has multiple options for addressing the program’s challenges and should take into account specific insurance market, technological and other developments, the American Academy of Actuaries said in …

Written comments have been invited by the Florida Division of Insurance Agent and Agency Services until May 8, 2017 on three proposed Rules relating to Florida’s property and auto insurance claim mediation programs. The proposed Rules are: 69B-250.001   Purpose and …