A roofing company and its owner are in trouble with Florida’s Attorney General for allegedly violating a series of recent legislatively-created insurance consumer protection reforms; a lawyer in the know …
As we’ve reported in this newsletter, a multi-bill effort led by attorney lawmakers in the Florida House of Representatives this session would roll-back many property insurance litigation reforms passed in the 2022-2023 legislative session. You …
One of the elements credited in the evolving success of Florida’s recent property insurance reforms is data collection and reporting. Property insurance companies are required to provide regulators with specific data on litigated claims. The number …
We open this edition with a hats-off to Florida insurance regulators for their steadfast support of policyholders. Last week’s Hurricane Milton was certainly bigger than Helene two weeks earlier, with insured losses now estimated at between $30 billion to $50 …
The latest Florida damage estimates will be released later today but as of last Wednesday, Hurricane Debby’s insured losses had grown to $113.8 million on 15,326 claims for a storm that may total up …
Florida property insurance rate filings show a downward trend for the first time in years, despite another insurance company seeking a rate increase; Citizens Property Insurance pursues a record reinsurance purchase for hurricane …
It has been a pleasure to write to you every week and share the 2024 Florida legislative happenings. We started this session nine weeks ago with high hopes that we would see …
This past week in the legislature has been an emotional week with legislators discussing bills that dealt with the Florida Dozier School for …
We have just two weeks remaining before the Florida legislative session’s scheduled conclusion on March 8. The budget negotiations between the two chambers will be in high gear and …
With three weeks of Session left there are 711 general bills that have not been heard in any of their committees. For those of you that are students of …
