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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel At the August 16th Cabinet meeting, in response to a question from Governor Scott, Insurance Commissioner Altmaier expressed support for legislative changes to deal with the increasing use of assignment of benefits (AOBs) in auto glass/windshield claims. He noted there is more litigation involving AOBs on auto coverage…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Governor Rick Scott signed the TNC bill, HB 221, on May 9, 2017. The bill takes effect on July 1, 2017 and is a comprehensive plan containing insurance requirements and licensing and regulatory requirements for TNCs, including local government pre-emption. The majority of the TNC insurance provisions in the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Two Senate bills containing auto insurance provisions cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 1, 2017. SB 1118, which is the Florida Department of Transportation agency package, contains language requiring autonomous vehicles used by TNCs to be covered by auto insurance in the same amounts as that required for…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant CS/CS/CS/HB 545 The House April 28 voted 117-0 to pass a Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles package that allows taxis, limousines, jitneys, or other for-hire passenger vehicles to purchase auto insurance from the surplus lines industry. This is supported by taxis and surplus lines carriers. The taxi insurance…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant CS/CS/CS/HB 545 The House April 28 is posed to pass a Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles package that allows taxis, limousines, jitneys, or other for-hire passenger vehicles to purchase auto insurance from the surplus lines industry. This is supported by taxis and surplus lines carriers. The House reviewed…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant CS SB 1768 Public Records/Medical Payments Coverage and Liability Motor Vehicle Insurance Policies/Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles — by LeeAmendments Filed 747482 [PDF] Lee (T) A public records exemption bill which would be essential if the Legislature repealed PIP and enacted mandatory BI passed the Senate Government…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 545, the agency package for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV) picked up an auto insurance provision related to taxi cabs in its last committee on April 24, 2017. The provision was added by amendment #10003 and is supported by the taxi industry. The…
By: Greenberg Traurig, FIC Lobbyist The House approved HB 1063 by Rep. Erin Grall (R-Vero Beach) on a vote of 89 to 29 this afternoon, and it will now go to the Senate. An amendment adopted yesterday on Second Reading moved the implementation date for PIP repeal from January 1, 2018 to July 1, 2018.…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1063, the House bill repealing personal injury protection (PIP) and replacing it with mandatory bodily injury (BI) insurance, passed the Florida House on April 19, 2017 by a vote of 89-29. Rep. Grall addressed third party bad faith reform in her explanation of the bill on the House…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Auto insurers could opt-out of the automobile preinsurance inspection program under a bill (SB 1316) approved by the Senate Transportation Committee on April 19. The Senate Banking & Insurance Committee passed it earlier and there is now one final committee stop in the Senate, Rules. The committee did adopt an…