GT: Citizens Introduces Emergency Water Removal Services and Managed Repair Contractor Network Program

Property and Casualty

By:  Greenberg Traurig, FIC Lobbyist Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (“Citizens”) recently announced they will begin offering two new programs in an effort to mitigate rapidly rising claims costs due to water losses. Citizens will now offer consumers emergency water removal services and add a managed repair contractor program to their claims services. Citizen notes that…

FIC: NCCI and OIR Win Comp Case

Workers' Compensation

By:  Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On May 9, 2017, the First District Court of Appeal (DCA) upheld the 14.5% workers’ compensation rate increase approved by the Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) in October.  The opinion can be found here. The case arose when a trial court invalidated OIR’s rate increase finding public records and…