Lawmakers have already started arriving in Tallahassee for tomorrow’s (January 9, 2024) start of the Florida Legislature’s 60-day session. The Governor, in his recently proposed budget for the 2024/2025 fiscal year, included two of the five steps needed to lower homeowners insurance rates in Florida:
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has released its latest twice-annual Property Insurance Stability Report and although the market is nowhere near being out of the woods yet, there are “emerging signals that the reforms signed into law are having a positive impact on Florida’s property insurance market,” according to …
Citizens Property Insurance begins the New Year in better shape and with a lower policy count than expected, thanks in part to depopulation and the organization’s leadership whose focus is to continue to shrink policy count; something old is becoming something new in consumer services from …
FEMA has released a fourth Mitigation Assessment Team (MAT) report on Hurricane Ian, assessing storm and flood damage to Florida homes from the September 2022 Cat 5 hurricane. It’s a follow-up to the previous reports covered in our August 2023 newsletter, Unsurprisingly, the report shows the value of new …
Florida Senators Scott and Rubio call for improving NOAA’s response to hurricanes impacting fisheries, a Florida bill could allow workers as young as 16 to work roofing jobs with supervision, and developers are building new homes that are both storm-resistant and eco-friendly. It’s all in this week’s Disaster Management …
