June 17, 2025, WFTS-TV, ABC Action News, Tampa – The State of Insurance Town Hall, hosted by ABC Action News’ Nadeen Yanes, featured five insurance experts addressing community concerns about rising premiums and challenges faced during hurricane season, emphasizing the …
Year: 2025
Central Florida families faced challenges with flood insurance claims. What to know
May 28, 2025, WKMG-TV News 6, Orlando – “This insurance commissioner has said publicly that he has concerns about NFIP claim handling,” said Lisa Miller, a former deputy Florida insurance commissioner and CEO of Lisa Miller & Associates. “It’s the …
A year after the Tallahassee tornadoes, how’s your insurance coverage?
May 14, 2025, WFSU-FM, Tallahassee – “Think about what those tornadoes have done and did to Tallahassee, to people who were very unsuspecting. You just don’t even think about that ever happening,” says property insurance consultant Lisa Miller. (Original story …
No More Sticks! Florida’s Effort to Fortify Homes
May 5, 2025, The Demotech Difference magazine, Spring 2025 – “In Florida, it’s not a matter of if – but when – a hurricane will strike. The Florida Legislature, mindful of that following a 2024 season that saw three hurricanes …
Did Florida House ‘Sneak’ Attorney Fee Wording Into Phosphate Mine Bill?
April 28, 2025, Insurance Journal – “SB 832 is terrible public policy,” said former Florida Deputy Insurance Commissioner Lisa Miller. “The only balance is it tips the scales toward the trial lawyer profession.” (Original story location: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southeast/2025/04/28/821420.htm)
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Residual Market Insurers
Residual Market Insurers ̶ HB 643 by Rep. John Snyder (R-Stuart) and the identical SB 1184 by Senator Nick DiCeglie (R-St. Petersburg) are dead. They did not progress during the week of March 31. Most likely the bills did not …
Litigation Financing
Litigation Financing ̶ SB 1534 by Senator Jay Collins (R-Tampa) picks up where past efforts in recent sessions made no progress in regulating third-party funding of lawsuits against businesses, including insurance companies. This bill is dead having never received an …
Insurance (Truenow)
Insurance ̶ SB 230 by Senator Keith Truenow (R-Tavares) would put new restrictions on bad faith claims by first requiring a court ruling and final judgment that an insurance company breached the policy contract before a bad faith claim could …
Court Judgment Interest Rates and Insurance Reports and Practices
Court Judgment Interest Rates and Insurance Reports and Practices ̶ HB 451 by Rep. Alex Andrade (R-Pensacola) and the similar SB 554 by Senator Don Gaetz (R-Pensacola) would essentially undo the 2023 tort reform under HB 837 that eliminated one-way …
Property Insurance Claims
Property Insurance Claims ̶ SB 1508 by Senator Tom Leek (R-Ormond Beach) and the similar HB 1087 by Rep. Randy Maggard (R-Dade City) remove the existing alternative procedure for resolving disputed residential property insurance claims (mediation) and replaces it with …
