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FIC: Building Commission Membership Reduction Dies
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Throughout Session a large professional license deregulation package that seemed to be a priority of the House and Senate and Governor DeSantis, sailed through committees in the House and Senate despite controversy about the deregulation of some professions contained in the package. However, in an interesting turn of events,…
FIC: Court Jurisdiction Increase With AOB Effective Date Change Passes
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On May 3, 2019, HB 337, the bill to increase the county court jurisdictional threshold, passed the Legislature. The passed bill also includes a provision moving up the effective date of the attorney fee provision in the AOB bill that passed earlier in Session. Procedurally, on May 3, 2019,…
FIC: One Way Attorney Fee Expansion To Contractors Passes
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1247 expands the application of Florida’s one way attorney fee statute to suits brought by “contractors” against surety insurers under payment or performance bonds for losses due to breach of a building or construction contract. The one-way attorney fee provision is contained in a larger bill dealing with…
FIC: Court Jurisdiction Increase Picks Up AOB Effective Date Change
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On May 2, 2019, the Senate adopted a strike all amendment (938140) to the court jurisdiction bill, HB 337 and rolled the bill to third reading. They will vote on the bill on May 3, 2019. If the Senate approves the bill on May 3, 2019, it will go…
FIC: Flood Disclosure Bill Heads To Governor
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 17, 2019, the House approved HB 617, a glitch bill making a clarifying change to last year’s bill requiring flood disclosure on homeowner’s policies. The Senate approved the bill on May 1, 2019 with a vote of 33-0. The bill now heads to the Governor for signature…
FIC: One Way Attorney Fee Expansion To Contractors Ready For Passage
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1247 expands the application of Florida’s one way attorney fee statute to suits brought by “contractors” against surety insurers under payment or performance bonds for losses due to breach of a building or construction contract. The one-way attorney fee provision is contained in a larger bill dealing with…
FIC: Flood Disclosure Bill One Vote Away From Final Passage
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 17, 2019, the House approved HB 617, a glitch bill making a clarifying change to last year’s bill requiring flood disclosure on homeowner’s policies. The Senate substituted the House bill for the Senate bill during their floor session on April 30, 2019, did not amend the bill,…
FIC: AOB Reform Passes The Florida Legislature
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 24, 2019, after at least eight years of trying, property insurance AOB reform finally passed the Florida Legislature when it was approved by the Senate. The vote in the Senate was 25-14. The House vote was 96-20. HB 7065 now goes to the Governor and we expect he…