I don’t know about you but I have more energy when the sun shines and its daylight. The minute our state moves to the dark winter evenings, I automatically get sleepy around 6 pm and the rest of the night …
Ode to Daylight Savings Time
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Of Pain and Paine
Thomas Paine: a philosopher, a mediocre soldier, and author of Common Sense, a pamphlet written in 1775–76 advocating independence from Great Britain to those people living in the thirteen colonies. Though comparably a more radical member of the intellects …
California Quaking
Why we don’t have earthquakes in Florida
Earthquakes are as rare in Florida as hurricanes are in California. We’ve only had 5 earthquakes in Florida since 1727 and California has had zero hurricanes and only two tropical storms. But it …
Defining Decay
An example of policy ambiguity
For those of you who are wordsmiths and enjoy writing policy language for insurance policy forms, you will be nodding your heads north and south when you read the latest case about ambiguous policy language. …
More than 1 in 10 Florida Homeowners Bare
High uninsurance rate focused on Miami
Miami-Dade County, one of the most vulnerable places for Atlantic hurricanes, has twice the national average of uninsured homeowners, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Of owner-occupied homes in Miami, 14.4% don’t have property …
Bill Watch
Legislative committee meetings of Feb. 18-22 into start of session
The Florida House and Senate held their last of six “committee weeks” from February 18-22 to hear proposed legislation making its way through the process. With the formal 2019 legislative …
Florida Legislature Convenes 2019 Session
What can we expect?
The Florida Legislature kicks-off its 2019 session tomorrow with a State-of-the-State address by Governor DeSantis who will outline his priorities in a proposed $91.3 billion state budget. The big insurance issue: the growing cost of property …
Hurricane Michael Relief Wait, Cost Grows
Meanwhile, Hurricane Irma loss creep rising
The long, slow recovery continues in Florida’s Panhandle from Hurricane Michael. Although some additional funding has become available, the wait for substantial relief continues, while the cost estimates keep rising. It’s been nearly five …
Springing into Spring and the Legislative Session
Since 2019 is an odd-numbered year, Florida’s legislative session convenes this month vs in even-numbered years when it convenes in January. You will be able to watch the happenings by selecting “Live Stream” at www.TheFloridaChannel.org and reviewing the legislative committee …
Remembering a Giant
When Thurgood Marshall was nominated and appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967, no other lawyer in our history had won more cases before this nation’s highest court. Marshall retained a record of 29 wins to 3 losses by …
