Dec 14, 2007
Palm Beach Post, 12/14/2007 TALLAHASSEE Citizens Property Insurance Corp. will review its investment policies after a recent run of withdrawals on a state-run pool jeopardized nearly $2 billion of its assets, its chief financial officer told the Florida House Insurance …
Dec 14, 2007
Orlando Sentinel, 12/14/2007 Is state’s $137B pension fund OK? TALLAHASSEE – The state is expanding its audit of the troubled local-government investment fund to include Florida’s mammoth $137 billion pension fund — which bought some of the same downgraded mortgage-backed …
Dec 14, 2007
Posted on Fri, Dec. 14, 2007DBY MARY ELLEN KLASmeklas@MiamiHerald.com TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Charlie Crist ratcheted up his push to win the votes to pass the property-tax amendment on Jan. 29, with a news conference in the home of an Orlando …
Dec 14, 2007
The Florida Senate has released interim block calendars for the weeks of January 7-11 and January 22-25. Both calendars are attached for your review. The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee is scheduled to meet on January 8 and 22. Â …
Dec 14, 2007
Click on a headline to read the complete story: Â Senators question how $151M hurricane plan went wrong Florida’s golden reputation for its sure-handed hurricane response in 2004 may be tarnished a bit. Â Lawmakers angry that emergency preparedness money …
Dec 13, 2007
The Health and Human Services Appropriations and the Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Senate Committees met on Thursday, December 13, 2007. A member of this Firm attended both meetings and provided the following reports:  Health and Human Services Appropriations …
Dec 13, 2007
Click on a headline to read the complete story:  House Passes Alternative Terror Bill As Expiration Looms WASHINGTON—House Democrats, in a move characterized by a Republican member as “futile,†passed and sent to the Senate a new bill to …
Dec 13, 2007
 The House Committee on Insurance convened today, Thursday, December 13, 2007, for the sole purpose of hearing testimony related to Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (“Citizens”). Citizens’ Chief Financial Officer Sharon Binnun reported to the Committee on issues ranging from policy …
Dec 13, 2007
 The Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporation will hold its Board of Directors Meeting on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 1:30 p.m. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. To view the agenda from the previous meeting in November, 2007, click here. The December …
Dec 13, 2007
 The Florida Senate Committee on Government Operations met on Wednesday December 12, 2007 to discuss several interim projects that Committee staff completed while the Legislature was not in session. To view the meeting packet, click here. Of particular importance …