LMA NEWSLETTER January 13, 2020

Pressing Items

Every morning I read a daily email from Peter Schorsch, whose Florida Politics website and emails are chock full of newsy tidbits, political happenings and news of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

One of my favorite features of this free service is a list of breaking headlines like the one from earlier last week.  I got …

Insurance Digest

Growing concern about Fla’s property market

The other shoe dropped this past week on Florida’s property insurance market.  Following marked declines in net underwriting and net income loss, ratings firm Demotech revealed that more than a dozen Florida insurance companies are facing ratings downgrades over the next three months or so.

Ratings Downgrade:  The Insurance …

Bill Watch

Session begins

After six weeks of committee meetings this past fall to begin hashing out some of the most important issues – including details of the Governor’s $91.4 billion proposed state budget for next fiscal year – the Florida Legislature begins its formal 2020 session tomorrow.  But committee meetings actually resume later this morning in …

Disaster Management Digest

Puerto Rico quakes & Fla. infrastructure

There is an unfolding catastrophe in Puerto Rico as the island has experienced three massive earthquakes within a week, the latest occurring over this past weekend, early Saturday morning.  They came after a series of more than 500 smaller earthquakes in the preceding weeks.  All of this, just two …

Florida’s Graduation Milestone

We have a wonderful update on a key pillar of Florida’s economy and the future prosperity of our 21.4 million residents and their generations to come.  Governor DeSantis has announced that Florida’s 2018-19 graduation rate increased to 86.9%, up 0.8 percentage points over last year and a jump of 27.7 percentage points since 2003-04.  Black, …