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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The insurance omnibus insurance bill (HB 301) was signed by Governor DeSantis on June 18, 2019. The bill contains insurance issues related to property, auto, liability, workers’ compensation, surplus lines property, health, and life as follows: Civil Remedy Notice Prevents a civil remedy notice from being filed within 60…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The insurance omnibus insurance bill (HB 301) was signed by Governor DeSantis on June 18, 2019. The bill contains insurance issues related to property, auto, liability, workers’ compensation, surplus lines property, health, and life as follows: Civil Remedy Notice Prevents a civil remedy notice from being filed within 60…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 862, a tort reform bill dealing with the dangerous instrumentality doctrine, was signed by Governor DeSantis on June 18, 2019 and takes effect on July 1, 2019. The bill is in response to a 2018 Florida Supreme Court decision which expanded the dangerous instrumentality doctrine to hold…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The scooter bill, HB 453, was signed by the Governor on June 18, 2019 and took effect immediately. The bill allows local governments to adopt local ordinances governing the operation of scooters. It does not require scooter companies to be licensed in order to operate and does not have…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 862, a tort reform bill dealing with the dangerous instrumentality doctrine, was signed by Governor DeSantis on June 18, 2019 and takes effect on July 1, 2019. The bill is in response to a 2018 Florida Supreme Court decision which expanded the dangerous instrumentality doctrine to hold…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On June 18, 2019, Governor DeSantis signed HB 7 which expands direct primary care. The Florida Legislature passed the same language expanding direct primary care twice during the 2019 Session – once as a stand-alone bill (HB 7) and once as part of a large healthcare omnibus package, HB…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On June 13, 2019, Governor Ron DeSantis signed the autonomous vehicle (AV) bill passed during the 2019 Legislative Session. HB 311 has insurance and financial responsibility requirements for AVs. Fully autonomous vehicles logged on to an on-demand autonomous vehicle network or engaged in a prearranged ride must have…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB 1113 on June 12, 2019. The bill creates the voluntary health shared savings program for health plans and also contains changes for the state group health insurance program. Shared Savings ProgramThe shared savings part of the bill allows health insurers and HMOs to provide…