Federal Insurance Office Misses Modernization Report Deadline

Feb 1, 2012

  The anticipated publication deadline of an insurance industry modernization report by the newly created Federal Insurance Office (“FIO”) has passed.   The FIO, which was created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd Frank”), …

Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation Schedules February 23, 2012 Workshop on Claims-Handling Entity Notice Requirements to Employees for Apportioned Compensable Medical Benefit Payments

Feb 1, 2012

  The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Workers’ Compensation has scheduled a February 23, 2012 Rule Development Workshop for Rule 69L-3.012, “Notice of Denial,” proposed amendments to which would inform claims-handling entities of notice requirements to employees when …

Brown & Brown Chief Executive Officer takes leave

Jan 31, 2012

The following article was published in the Daytona Beach News-Journal on January 31, 2012: Brown & Brown CEO takes leave By Tom Knox Powell Brown, the president and chief executive officer at Brown & Brown Inc., has taken a temporary …