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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate bill to protect claimant information from being obtained by attorneys for solicitation purposes passed its last committee on April 25, 2017. The bill, SB 1008 was amended by the Rules Committee. The amendment primarily made technical and stylistic changes to the bill. Generally, the bill prevents…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant HB 837 Insurer Insolvency — by Raburn The full House took up on April 25 the Department of Financial Services insolvency package (CS/CS/HB 837), with no amendments and no opposition. This comes up for a final vote April 26 and will go to the Senate, where similar legislation (SB 730)…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant HB 813 Flood Insurance — by Lee Jr. (L)392033 — Lee A measure (CS/CS/HB 813) continuing the Legislature’s initiatives of the last several years to promote private flood insurance in Florida should win approval of the House on April 26 and go to the Senate. It was reviewed on the…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant HB 421 Public Housing Authority Insurance — by Shaw Entities allowed to form a public housing authority self-insurance fund (SIF) are expanded under a bill scheduled for approval by the full House April 26. The bill came to the House floor for the first time on April 25. There were…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 25, 2017, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved the omnibus adjuster licensing and regulation bill, SB 922 after adopting a delete everything amendment to remove the bill’s provisions requiring licensing of adjusting firms consistent with licensing of insurance agencies is also required by the bill. The bill sponsor…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 25, 2017, the Senate medical marijuana bill, SB 406, passed its last committee. Although it was amended in committee, none of the amendments dealt with insurance. In fact, there is nothing about insurance coverage for medical marijuana in the bill. The House bill also does not address…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate added its personal delivery drone bill, SB 460, to SB 832, another drone bill, in the Rules Committee on April 25, 2017. The personal delivery drone language added to SB 832 authorizes the operation of personal delivery devices (PDDs) unless prohibited by local ordinance. The language…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 25, 2017, the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved the direct primary care bill, SB 240 with one amendment related to Medicaid managed care as described below. The bill will be heard on the Senate floor when set by the Rules Committee. The House has already passed their…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate Appropriations Committee passed the substantive DFS fraud bill, SB 1012, and a public records bill relating to the DFS fraud bill, SB 1014, on April 25, 2017. This was the last committee stop for both bills, so they will be heard on the Senate floor when set…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant HB 1421 Property Insurance Assignment Agreements — by Grant (J)Amendments Filed 702957 [PDF] Jenne(Information from FIC lobbyist Greenberg Traurig was used in this report) The Florida House rejected April 25 a one-year rate freeze on homeowners insurance rates and a 6.5 percent rate rollback next year as it prepared to…