Recap of Week 5 & Preview of Week 6 of Session
With four weeks remaining in the Florida legislative session, bills are making steady progress that would open the insurance market to more surplus lines companies, help check the rapidly …
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Recap of Week 4 & Preview of Week 5 of Session
At this halfway point of the 60-day Florida legislative session we’re starting to see some movement in insurance bills as two more insurance companies last week – Florida Farm …
Tougher Loan Standards on Condos
Spurred by Surfside condo collapse
One of the impacts of last June’s collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium is increased scrutiny by the nation’s two big real estate mortgage backers: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Both have come out …
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Recap of Week 3 & Preview of Week 4 of Session
It’s because we’ll be at the midpoint of the 2022 Florida Legislative session after this week that we’ve seen a flurry of activity in the last few days, with …
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Recap of Week 2 & Preview of Week 3 of Session
The Florida Legislature today begins the third week of its scheduled nine-week session with some good news: the latest state revenue estimates released this past Friday show $4 billion …
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Recap of Week 1 & Preview of Week 2 of Session
The 2022 Florida Legislative session goes into its second week today fortified by a lot of new bills filed just before the deadline that address some needed changes in …
Frequent Building Re-inspections Urged
Surfside grand jury report out
A new report may add further impetus to the Florida Legislature to tackle re-inspection of high-rise buildings. A Miami-Dade County Grand Jury has recommended that such buildings be re-inspected every ten years for recertification of …
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Preparing for the January 11 Florida Legislative Session
We start the New Year with a couple of new laws regarding peer-to-peer car-sharing rentals and notaries, together with a 4.9% decrease in workers’ compensation rates. There’s a new Secretary of the …
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End of committee weeks
The last of the Florida Legislature’s six committee weeks ended on December 3 with little action on insurance issues, as we now prepare for the regular 60-day session to start January 11. The big news was …
