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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Workers’ compensation insurers would be allowed, but not required, to use a licensed nurse registry to place authorized compensable attendant care services for injured workers under a bill approved by the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee on December 11,2019. HB 437 was approved by the Subcommittee after a strike…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 623, is a comprehensive condo association bill that contains one insurance provision. That provision prohibits a condo unit owner’s property policy from allowing the unit owner to subrogate against the condo association if the association’s policy does not allow the association to subrogate against the unit owner. The…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill (HB 329) primarily clarifying how FIGA and FWCIGA levy assessments against insurers passed its second House committee on December 11, 2019 without amendment. The bill has one committee left. The bill is supported by the guaranty associations and is substantially similar to a bill that…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On December 10, 2019, the Senate autoglass bill (SB 312) was killed during its first committee stop when the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee voted it down on a 4-4 vote. The vote on the bill came after several amendments to the bill failed. This is the second…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel During its meeting on December 10, 2019, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee ran out of their allotted committee time before hearing the cap the copay for insulin bill, SB 116. It will likely be set for the next committee meeting which will be the first week of…