Oct 25, 2017
Florida CFO Voices Concerns to FEMA Over Policy Management Vendor Transition Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reconsider an upcoming vendor transition that he says could delay the processing of federal flood …
Oct 25, 2017
At its meeting yesterday, October 24, 2017, the Florida Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance (“Committee”) convened a panel of expert witnesses to testify on the effects of Post-Loss Assignment of Benefits (“AOB”) and one-way attorneys’ fees. The panel comprised …
Oct 25, 2017
The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services’ Housing and Insurance Subcommittee held a hearing entitled “The Federal Government’s Role in the Insurance Industry” yesterday, October 24, 2017. The hearing examined both the domestic and international roles of the Federal Insurance …
Oct 24, 2017
Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Sha’Ron James will host the fourth and final Emergency Medical Transportation Working Group meeting on October 31, 2017 in Tallahassee. The Insurance Consumer Advocate formed the 13-member Working Group in October 2016 to study the impact …
Oct 24, 2017
Galvano Brings Policy Skills To Top Senate Post Senator Bill Galvano, a 51-year-old lawyer from Bradenton, will be designated Tuesday by Senate Republicans as the next president of the Florida Senate. THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA’s Lloyd Dunkelberger reports. · …
Oct 23, 2017
Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier and Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Sha’Ron James will headline the Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance Assignment of Benefits panel tomorrow, October 24, 2017. Olympus Insurance Company Chairman Jeffrey Scott and Citizens Property Insurance Corporation …
Oct 23, 2017
Florida’s Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist When Hurricanes aren’t smashing Florida’s Low-Lying Strip Malls and Red-Roof Houses, the State’s machine of inexorable growth is already destroying the natural resources that have helped make that growth so inexorable. Politico’s Michael Grunwald reports. …
Oct 20, 2017
The legal meaning of “liability insurance” and the future of state-based insurance, cybersecurity, health care, and myriad other critical issues are on the line as the National Conference of Insurance Legislators (“NCOIL”) is scheduled to convene its 2017 Annual Meeting …
Oct 20, 2017
Increased attorney fees in water damage case backed by Florida Supreme Court In a case stemming from a claim for water damage, a divided Florida Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that an attorney was entitled to receive stepped-up fees for …
Oct 19, 2017
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (“OIR”) published its annual property and casualty profit and contingency factors for 2016 in Informational Memoradum OIR-17-02M issued today, October 19, 2017. To view the precipitating Order, click here. To view Informational Memoradum OIR-17-02M, …