Apr 20, 2010
Colodny Fass has prepared its annual bill chart to assist in tracking pending priority state-level insurance issues during the 2010 Florida Legislative Session, which runs from March 2 through April 30, 2010. Revised as of April 20, 2010, the …
Apr 20, 2010
The Florida Automobile Joint Underwriting Association’s (“FAJUA”) Board of Governors (“Board”) met in Tampa on April 20, 2010. During the meeting, the Board devoted much debate to the question of whether to offer payment plans to consumers. FAJUA General …
Apr 20, 2010
The FPCA Automobile Division will be meeting via teleconference on Friday, April 23, at 2:00 p.m. The call-in number is 800.369.1285; conference code: 63015#. An agenda for the meeting, as well as minutes from the April 16, 2010 meeting, are …
Apr 20, 2010
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Florida House and Senate get beyond impasse in budget negotiations Negotiations on a new state budget picked up steam Monday as legislators sought common ground in hopes …
Apr 20, 2010
The following article appeared in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on April 18, 2010: American Keystone was backed financially by a Sarasota man who had been banned by the insurance industry, but still managed to win a license to sell policies. …
Apr 20, 2010
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Paige St. John: Regulators take a gamble on discount insurance People’s Trust Insurance CEO Mike Gold uses phone sales to cut costs. Mike Gold’s idea to transform …
Apr 20, 2010
Reports on new statistical tracking tools and other strategies to expedite claims service performance, the identification of inconsistent or fraudulent claims and the enhancement of training for independent adjusters was the focus of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s (“Citizens”) Claims Committee …
Apr 19, 2010
To view a complete story, click on a headline below: Florida’s Plant City Plagued by Sinkholes; ‘We Just Sit Here and Watch Them Grow’ Volcanoes and earthquakes get all the attention. But what about sinkholes? Florida …
Apr 19, 2010
The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund released its 2010 proposed rates on April 19, 2010. To view the rates, click on the hyperlinks below: • Mandatory Rates • Rating Regions Approved by Florida’s State Board of Administration on April 13, 2010, …
Apr 19, 2010
The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced its inplementation of a new environmental cost-saving policy in the following April 19, 2010 news release: Broad New Initiative Will Increase Electronic Transactions, Save More Than $400 Million, 12 Million Pounds of Paper …