After six weeks of committee meetings this past fall to begin hashing out some of the most important issues – including details of the Governor’s $91.4 billion proposed state budget for next fiscal year – the Florida Legislature …
The Florida Legislature begins its 2020 session a week from tomorrow with the State of the State address by the Governor. While the automobile AOB bill has hit a bump in the road, there are other important insurance …
The Florida Legislature wrapped up its last committee week this past week in preparation for the 2020 legislative session. Lawmakers will return to Tallahassee to begin their regular session on January 14 (which will …
First-ever disaster aid for Florida’s timber industry hit hard by Hurricane Michael, paying for more power lines to prevent outages in future storms, reforming FEMA’s disaster contracting, and a new report urging Florida’s …
Florida legislative committees were busy holding discussions and debate on various bills in preparation for the start of the 2020 Legislative Session on January 14. They’ll return for one more “committee …
The issue of whether our state building code and its different wind standards across the state is strong enough to protect all Florida residents has been the subject of our recent newsletter articles and Florida …
Is Florida’s building code protecting all of us? That’s what we asked in two recent episodes of The Florida Insurance Roundup podcast. “It’s not that we expect to have no damage when …
Not only has the Florida Building Code not been fully effective in protecting homes in the Panhandle clobbered by last fall’s Hurricane Michael, now neither are mitigation efforts designed to fortify our homes and businesses, according …
A new report on Hurricane Michael’s destruction confirms what many of us who saw the damage firsthand already knew: the building code in the Panhandle for even the most recently built …
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 …
