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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Up until this week the House was advancing two competing House bills to regulate peer to peer car sharing, both of which included the same insurance requirements. The bills differed on the application of the daily rental car surcharge and sales tax to peer to peer car sharing. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On February 26, 2020, Sen. Perry (R) filed a strike all amendment to an agency bill for DFS that includes provisions authorizing a water damage sublimit and reducing the timeframe to notify an insurer of a claim, supplemental claim, or reopened hurricane claim from 3 years to 24 months.…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 295, a bill to revamp the construction defect process was postponed in its second House committee on February 27, 2020 when the bill sponsor said the bill needed more work. This likely kills the bill this year as it will not clear its assigned committees. The Senate companion…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House passed their organ transplant discrimination bill this week and sent the bill to the Senate for approval. On February 27, 2020, the Senate organ transplant discrimination bill cleared its last committee and the bill will next be heard on the Senate floor. Thus, the bill is…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1039, a bill allowing advertising on the roofs of TNC vehicles, creating luxury ground transportation TNCs, and creating TNCs for disabled persons was approved by its last committee in the House on February 27, 2020 when the House State Affairs Committee approved it with a strike all amendment…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House transportation omnibus bill, HB 395, that includes some insurance related provisions passed its last committee, House State Affairs, on February 27, 2020. It will now be heard on the House floor when the Rules Committee puts it on the Special Order calendar. The State Affairs Committee adopted…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Bills to increase the salaries of Judges of Compensation Claims (JCCs) to that of county court judges passed their last House and Senate committees on February 27, 2020. The bills were not amended and will now be heard on the House and Senate floors when set by the Rules…
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. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On February 26, 2020, the House moved their accuracy in damages bill to the floor even though the bill is stalled in the Senate. The bill specifies the evidence juries hear for the value of past, present, or future medical expenses used to set damages in personal injury lawsuits.…