2017 FIC Bill Summaries Post Session Agents and Adjusters
2017 Summary – Agents and Adjusters.pdf
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2017 Summary – Agents and Adjusters.pdf
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…
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…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant The number of medical marijuana dispensing centers and the Senate’s fear of “a pot shop on every corner” was the deal breaker and kept the Legislature from passing legislation implementing Constitutional Amendment No. 2. The House and Senate got close in the final hours of the 2017 regular session May…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Trial lawyers in the Senate beat back a last-minute compromise attempt on legal fees from Sen. Rob Bradley and a possible agreement (HB 7085, CS/SB 1582) to reduce workers’ comp rates in the final hours of the 2017 regular session. Comp rates have gone up 14.5 percent since the various…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant The House and Senate each passed legislation on aerial and sidewalk & roadway drones on May 5, the final day of the 2017 session. This will go to Governor Rick Scott soon. The Senate vote was 35-0 on the bill (HB 1027). The House vote was 115-0. Two drone bills…