The “Florida Shuffle” involving a $746 million sober home scam, a proposed permanent end to COVID mandates, the state of Florida’s mental health system, plus another Obamacare enrollment record. It’s all in this week’s …
Florida’s workers’ compensation insurance rates are heading for a seventh consecutive year of decrease, despite the lingering COVID pandemic. Meanwhile, insurance companies and hospitals are still in disagreement on the per-diem hospital inpatient reimbursement amount, …
Many of you are road warriors. Traveling is a necessary part of your job and as such, we travelers are experiencing a new normal in the air and on the road. One such experience last week struck me and I …
The “Great Resignation”, as some in the sphere of economics have dubbed it, refers to the record rates at which employees are quitting their jobs, including here in Florida. Per the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), their newly published …
With its temporary reauthorization due to expire next month, new bipartisan legislation filed in both the U.S. House and Senate would extend FEMA’s National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) for another five years, under a …
As the special legislative session gets underway today in Tallahassee on federal vaccine and mask mandates on COVID-19, the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has withdrawn its request to start a catastrophe fund in Florida …
The full Florida Legislature is back in Tallahassee this morning for a week-long special session, while the first drafts of congressional and legislative redistricting are out. Condominium bills are beginning to emerge, too, designed to help prevent …
There is other action to report from the Florida Legislature’s first week of committee meetings, including new bills filed on insurance coverage for at-home COVID-19 tests and requirements for condo board members, along with a …
First responders would receive workers’ compensation insurance benefits for COVID-19 exposure under a bill recently filed in the Florida Legislature, in advance of the first of six legislative committee weeks that begin on September 20. …
The possibility that the current pandemic may not be an infrequent event has the workers’ compensation insurance industry proposing a new multi-million dollar catastrophe fund that businesses would pay into through a special annual …
