Florida’s leaders showed tremendous vision by enacting the first-in-the-nation motor vehicle no-fault laws, which became effective in 1972. Commonly referred to as personal injury protection, the goal was to help accident victims by reducing legal delays, streamline the payment process and provide an automatic pot of money for injured drivers to take care of immediate [...]

For years, Florida’s property-insurance crisis has remained unsolved, with an ever-building mountain of unfunded debt obligations building up, driving up consumer costs, creating unnecessary risk and uncertainty, hampering Florida’s economic recovery and discouraging insurance competition for your business.

Plaintiffs’ lawyers eked out a narrow victory over insurance groups on Thursday, as a House committee narrowly defeated a measure intended to curb “bad-faith” lawsuits against insurers.

TALLAHASSEE – Gov. Rick Scott is ratcheting up pressure on lawmakers to find agreement on ways to reform the state’s fraud-plagued no-fault auto-insurance law, despite stiff opposition from plaintiffs’ lawyers, medical specialists and consumer groups.

The House Civil Justice Subcommittee spent more than  two hours early Wednesday morning taking testimony on a  personal injury protection (PIP) bill before passing the bill out of committee by  a 10-5 vote.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A House panel will consider overhauling Florida’s personal-injury insurance that is now overcome with fraud.

Debate is heating up in the Florida Legislature on how to change the personal injury protection (PIP) part of auto insurance coverage. House staffers gave a briefing Monday on their plans, drawing criticism from consumer advocates.

They operate outside the safety net that pays claims when insurers fail, are not subject to prompt payment rules and have no limits on rate increases, but surplus lines insurance companies could soon seize tens of thousands of policies from state-run Citizens Property Insurance Corp. under a bill moving quickly through the Florida Legislature.

Legislation that would all but eliminate regular assessments on homeowners’ policies in the aftermath of a catastrophic storm easily moved through the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee Thursday, passing with a unanimous vote.

Saying now is the “right time to do the right thing,” Sen. Alan Hays successfully maneuvered a bill that would limit how much doctors can charge or repackaged drugs in the workers compensation system.

The end of the year is often a time of reflection. Looking back on 2011, Florida, thankfully, avoided a hurricane landfall for an unprecedented sixth consecutive year. While this string of good luck won’t last indefinitely, the new year brings about an opportunity to reform Citizens Property Insurance Corporation and the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund [...]

The Florida Supreme Court today rejected arguments by a Pensacola hospital in a legal battle about turning over documents to an injured woman’s attorneys.

A bill to allow out-of-state surplus lines property insurance companies to take over policies of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. passed through two committees Thursday – one in the House, one in the Senate – and is now headed to the floor in both chambers, despite objections from some lawmakers that it does not include enough [...]

A House committee on Wednesday scrapped the personal injury protection (PIP) no-fault program by passing a bill that establishes Emergency Care Coverage instead.