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By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Limited scope construction defect bills are up before both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees this week. The bills define the date of completion of a construction contract to be used when determining the start of the statute of limitations and state of repose in construction defect cases. The Senate…
By: Greenberg Traurig, FIC Lobbyist Following is a report prepared by staff of the Greenberg Traurig who is on the FIC lobby team. HB 1209 – Related to Health Information Transparency – By Rep. Brodeur Summary:To promote consumer involvement, healthcare pricing and consumer data needs to be timely. This bill requires Agency for Health Care…
By: Greenberg Traurig, FIC Lobbyist Following is a report prepared by staff of the Greenberg Traurig who is on the FIC lobby team. There is no Senate companion bill. HB 993 – Related to State Employees Prescription Drug Program – By Rep. Magar Opening:As many are aware, the private and public sectors are struggling to…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The insurer insolvency bill, HB 837, an agency bill of the Department of Financial Services (DFS) passed its first House committee on March 14, 2017 with two amendments to conform the House bill to the Senate companion, SB 730. The provisions in the amendments, described below, that relate to…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee passed its committee bill (PCB IBS 17-01) dealing with workers’ compensation reform on March 14, 2017 after over two hours of committee testimony, discussion, and debate and the narrow defeat of a very contentious strike all amendment. What became abundantly clear during the…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Amendment 388014 [PDF] Young Florida would become one of the few states in the country to establish a pain and suffering cause of action in the negligent death of a dog or cat, according to an opponent of a bill which passed the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. The bill (CS/SB…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Legislation expanding MyFloridaRx, the state Internet site allowing consumers to compare prices for prescription drugs, was approved by the Senate Health Policy Committee Tuesday. “This empowers consumers to shop for the best price for drugs,” said Jacksonville Republican Sen. Aaron Bean, the bill sponsor. “When there is competition out there,…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel In a surprise move, Sen. Lee added his building code bill (SB 7000) to Sen. Brandes’ building inspector and administrator bill (SB 860) in committee on March 14, 2017. He made the move in the Community Affairs committee which is the committee he chairs. Interestingly, Sen. Brandes was not…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant SB 102 Payment of Health Care Claims — by Steube The complete staff analysis is available from this link: SB 102 Staff Analysis The Senate Health Policy Committee Tuesday passed the initiative SB 102 by the Florida Medical Association and other doctor groups to keep health insurers from retroactively denying…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee approved SB 812 on March 14, 2017 with one amendment. The amendment makes the Senate bill different than the House bill as further discussed below. The changes to the Senate bill were insisted upon by Sen. Farmer, a trial attorney, to alleviate…