By David and Kim Salmon, Esqs.
Long time, seasoned defense lawyer Kimberly Salmon prevailed on three consecutive motions for summary judgment on cast iron pipe cases. In Pantina v. Florida Peninsula Insurance Company before Judge Amy Williams in Pinellas County, …
By Katelyn Ferry, Esq.
Florida’s First District Court of Appeal issued an important opinion regarding Actual Cash Value/Replacement Cost Value (ACV/RCV) in property insurance policies.
In Bailetti v. Universal, the appellate court confirmed the final judgment in favor of …
New bill filed
The Florida House Subcommittee on Insurance & Banking met October 7, 2025, to examine how insurance companies are using artificial intelligence (AI) in their operations. A panel of insurance and technology experts representing CFO Ingoglia’s office, NAMIC, …
OIR has answers
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been on the minds of many Floridians recently, with enhanced premium tax credits on federal marketplace plans set to expire at year’s end barring Congressional renewal. At the Florida House’s Health …
How the private market can help
Floridians are left unable to renew their federal flood coverage mid-shutdown, players in the private flood insurance market say they’re ready to take over that flood risk and write often less-expensive policies, and a …
New bills filed
Governor DeSantis is predicting there won’t be another attempt in the Florida Legislature in its upcoming January session to undo the 2022 and 2023 consumer insurance and litigation reforms nor make any other major changes. “They didn’t …
This week’s newsletter has several stories on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its current and potential use in all lines of insurance. Florida lawmakers meeting in committee this month expressed concern, asking a panel of industry experts how insurance companies use …
Seaweed gets a bad rap here in the Sunshine State. With tons and tons washing up on our beautiful beaches each year, most Floridians think of it more like an ocean eyesore than a cash crop. But researchers at the …
A silver lining for Florida
The federal shutdown has sweeping effects on FEMA, the federal flood insurance program lapse is impacting home sales, while Florida’s Congressmen continue the push for long-term reforms to that program with two new bills requiring …
Plus, a new study on small hail damage
A new report shows Florida’s insurance consumer and litigation reforms positively affected the price of reinsurance this hurricane season, Citizens Insurance accuses certain plaintiff lawyers of using “misinformation” in their quest to …