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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 617, a glitch bill making a clarifying change to last year’s bill requiring flood disclosure on homeowner’s policies, cleared its last House committee on April 4, 2019. It was not amended. It will next be heard on the House floor when scheduled by the Rules Committee. The Senate…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1247 expands the application of Florida’s one way attorney fee statute to suits brought by “contractors” against surety insurers under payment or performance bonds for losses due to breach of a building or construction contract. It passed its last House committee on April 4, 2019. The bill will…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House moved their vulnerable investor protection bill (HB 143) out of its last committee on April 4, 2019. It will next be heard on the House floor when set by the Rules Committee. SB 1466, the Senate companion, is in its last committee. Thus, the bills are in…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 27, the House professional license deregulation package, was approved by its last committee of reference on April 4, 2019 with five amendments. Only one of the amendments related to the Florida Building Commission membership and is described below. The bill contains many changes to deregulate professions overseen…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 3, 2019, the House moved its life insurance genetic testing prohibition bill (HB 879) by a vote of 10-7. This was the last committee stop for the bill which now will be heard on the House floor when set by the Rules Committee. The vote on the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 3, 2019, the House moved their bill creating a voluntary health shared savings incentive program to the floor when it cleared its last committee. The Senate bill is also moving this year and is in its last committee. Thus, the shared savings bills are getting into position…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A large condominium association bill contains an insurance provision that may interest property insurers. The provision prohibits a condo owner’s insurance policy from having rights of subrogation against the condominium association. HB 1075 passed its second committee on April 3, 2019 with three amendments that did not affect the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill dealing with referrals from health care providers to hospitals and out of network providers passed its last committee on April 3, 2019. The only amendment to the bill changed the effective date of it. HB 863 prohibits health care providers from referring patients to any hospital in…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle agency package (HB 1053) has some changes to crash reports obtained from the agency that may be of interest to auto insurers. The bill passed its second committee on April 2, 2019 and is now in its last committee. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Bills to expand the application of Florida’s one way attorney fee statute to suits brought by “contractors” against surety insurers under payment or performance bonds for losses due to breach of a building or construction contract are moving through the legislature this year. SB 1200 and HB 1247 are…