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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel This year’s insurance omnibus bill, HB 465 passed the House on March 5, 2018 by a vote of 113-1. The bill now goes to the Senate for consideration and approval. Because the Senate bill has three provisions in it that are not in the House bill, the Senate…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 376, the first responder workers’ compensation PTSD bill, passed the Senate on March 3, 2018 and was sent to the House for approval. On March 5, 2018, the House took up SB 374, substituted the Senate bill for the House bill, and then voted on the Senate bill. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The public records exemption in current law for proprietary business information provided by insurers in the private market to Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens) for use in the Citizens Clearinghouse will be reenacted and saved from repeal under HB 7097 that passed the House on March 5, 2019 with…