FIC: OIR Rule For Commercial General Liability Payment of Defense Costs Moves Closer To Repeal

By:  Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel During the Cabinet meeting on July 25, 2019, the Florida Cabinet, sitting as the Financial Services Commission (FSC), approved the OIR to publish a repeal of the current rule that requires commercial general liability contracts to include defense costs within the liability limits of the contract (Rule 69O-167.007).  In…

FIC: Dangerous Instrumentality Bill Signed

By:  Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 862, a tort reform bill dealing with the dangerous instrumentality doctrine, was signed by Governor DeSantis on June 18, 2019 and takes effect on July 1, 2019.   The bill is in response to a 2018 Florida Supreme Court decision which expanded the dangerous instrumentality doctrine to hold…

FIC: Dangerous Instrumentality Bill Signed

By:  Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 862, a tort reform bill dealing with the dangerous instrumentality doctrine, was signed by Governor DeSantis on June 18, 2019 and takes effect on July 1, 2019.   The bill is in response to a 2018 Florida Supreme Court decision which expanded the dangerous instrumentality doctrine to hold…