Note:  Until the March 2, 2010 Florida legislative bill filing deadline, Capitol to Courthouse Headliners will provide a listing of insurance-related bills filed each day.  This listing will be located at the end of the news headlines.   …

Pursuant to a February 9, 2010 Florida Department of Financial Services hearing, changes have been made to proposed Rules for an annual report card to be used by the Office of the Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate in grading authorized personal residential …

Members of the FPCA Automobile Division will be meeting with Representative Bryan Nelson tomorrow, February 25, at 3:00 p.m.  The purpose of the meeting is to discuss proposed legislation relating to insurance fraud. The meeting will be held in Representative …

As part of its regularly scheduled agenda today, February 24, 2010, the Florida Cabinet deferred several items relating to additional bonding authority for the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (“FHCF”). In reviewing these items, the Cabinet members engaged in significant discussion …

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced that it has finalized the first agreement of its kind with German reinsurer Hannover Ruckversicherung AG (Hannover Re), which now qualifies as Florida’s first reinsurer to capitalize on a new Florida law that reduces collateral …

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivered the remarks below before the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services in Washington, D.C. today, February 24, 2010. Chairman Frank, Ranking Member Bachus, and other members of the Committee, I am pleased …

    Note:  Until the March 2, 2010 Florida legislative bill filing deadline, Capitol to Courthouse Headliners will provide a listing of insurance-related bills filed each day.  This listing will be located at the end of the news headlines.   …

The Miami Herald published this article on February 22, 2010 BY DOUGLAS HANKS South Florida hotels finally hit bottom this winter and have begun a recovery from a brutal downturn. In Miami-Dade, the region’s largest hotel market, per-room revenue grew …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   As Florida lawmakers scramble to lower unemployment taxes, stimulus funds untapped Last year, with unemployment heading higher and worries about the states ability to pay for unemployment …

The Miami Herald published this editorial on February 23, 2010. In tough times, you bargain hunt for quality. There’s no better bargain today in higher education than the Florida Resident Access Grant, or FRAG. It helps high school graduates attend …