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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…
By: Greenberg Traurig, FIC Lobbyist Following several attempts in previous legislative sessions, HB 221 by Rep. Chris Sprowls (R-Clearwater) passed the Senate on Wednesday and is heading to the Governor. The bill, which establishes a regulatory framework for these entities and sets up various insurance coverage requirements, was approved on a vote of 36 to…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant St. Petersburg Sen. Jeff Brandes told the Florida Senate, matter-of-factly: “This is the transportation network companies bill we have been debating the last four years. That’s the bill.” Although members knew a lot more about the often turbulent issue, that understatement was all that was necessary for a 36-1 vote…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel With Rep. Grall, the bill sponsor, calling the bill a paradigm shift and telling House members that prior attempts to fix personal injury protection (PIP) have not decreased fraud or rates, the bill to repeal PIP and replace with mandatory bodily injury (BI) insurance moved one step closer to…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 784, the agency package for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles picked up some auto insurance provisions in committee on April 18, 2017. The provisions were added by amendment #726846. The amended bill passed the committee. Auto insurance related provisions added to the bill in committee…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant SB 340 Transportation Network Companies — by BrandesHB 221 Transportation Network Companies — by Sprowls The Florida Senate is one day and one vote away from sending to Governor Rick Scott a national model-based bill regulating transportation network companies. The bill is largely consistent with the TNC industry national compromise…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant SB 1766 Motor Vehicle Insurance — by Lee (T)SB 1768 Public Records/Medical Payments Coverage and Liability Motor Vehicle Insurance Policies/Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles — by LeeHB 1063 Motor Vehicle Insurance — by Grall (Information from Greenberg Traurig was used in this report.) Packages repealing Florida’s PIP/no-fault law…