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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A sweeping medical malpractice bill (PCB CJS 19-02) to reverse some of the recent Florida Supreme Court decisions on medical malpractice passed its first committee on March 13, 2019. The recent Supreme Court cases undid some of the med mal reforms enacted by the Legislature in 2003. The med…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 7 expands direct primary care and is a priority bill of the House. By expanding direct primary care to more specialized medical services, the bill meets Speaker Oliva’s goal of increasing health care options to Floridians in order to reduce health care costs. The House Health & Human…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 759 and HB 761 revamp Florida’s trade secret protection laws. They passed their second committee on March 14, 2019 without amendment. The bills are now in its last House committee. The Senate companion bills (SB 1414 and SB 1416) are similar and have not yet been heard in…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Committees in the House and Senate approved each chamber’s insurance omnibus bill during meetings this week. The Senate advanced their insurance omnibus bill (SB 714) on March 11, 2019 after amending it. Two days later, the House advanced their bill (HB 301) after amending the civil remedy notice…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel With the bill sponsoring citing privacy concerns, the House moved its genetic testing prohibition bill (HB 879) out of its first committee on March 13, 2019 with a vote of 11-3. The dissenting votes were from three of the five Democrats on the committee. The Senate version (SB 258)…