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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 floor vote on the bill was 113-0. Before voting on the bill, the House read it a second time, waived the rules…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Saying the proposed strike all amendment (338298) represented an agreement between House and Senate on AOB reform, Sen. Broxson (R) amended the Senate AOB bill in committee on April 17, 2019 to match the AOB bill already passed by the House. Thus, it appears AOB reform is in a…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 11, 2019, the House passed their AOB bill without auto glass with a vote of 96-20. The CFO, who has been a champion for AOB reform, was on the House floor when the bill was called up for a vote. The bill will now be sent to…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House heard the AOB bill (HB 7065) on the floor on April 10, 2019 and adopted one amendment to tweak some of the AOB requirements and an amendment to that amendment to completely remove all the auto glass AOB provisions from the bill. Thus, there are no auto…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A large condominium association bill contains an insurance provision that may interest property insurers. The provision prohibits a condo owner’s insurance policy from having rights of subrogation against the condominium association. SB 1362 passed its first committee on April 10, 2019 with a strike all amendment (728666). The amendment…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1200 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. It passed its last Senate committee on April 10, 2019 with two…