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Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has named two new members to its executive team. Board member John Rollins recently resigned from Citizens’ Board of Governors, stating that he wanted to avoid any conflict of interest as he considered future opportunities with Citizens or in the private sector. Rollins now has been named Citizens’ chief risk officer. […]
Senate Appropriations Chairman Joe Negron has filed a proposal (SB 156) that would reduce Florida’s motor vehicle registration fees. The proposal as initially filed does not affect the salary tax credit that applies to Florida’s insurance premium tax. This is a key distinction between the 2014 proposal and the proposal as considered in the 2013 […]
Florida’s Auditor General recently issued Report 2014-009 relating to its operational audit of the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation. The Office of Insurance Regulation in turn has provided its responses to the audit findings. The report identified the following four findings: Finding No. 1: Office policies and procedures should be enhanced to require that the […]
The United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida has interpreted the “structural damage” threshold for sinkhole losses in an Order issued September 3, 2013, in Gonzalez v . Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. The court began its discussion by providing several examples of logical flaws that can arise when words having more than […]
The Florida Office of Insurance Organization has issued an order approving the reorganization plan of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Inc. d/b/a Florida Blue subject to certain conditions. Florida Blue proposed to reorganize by creating a new not-for-profit mutual insurance holding company to be owned by Florida Blue’s policyholder-members. The new mutual insurance holding […]
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) announced that it has received the annual workers’ compensation rate filing submitted by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). The rate filing provides for an overall 1% increase in workers’ compensation rates. The effective date of the filing is January 1, 2014. As in prior years, the […]
Earlier this month, a federal judge in Iowa ordered the EEOC to pay over $4 million dollars of an employer’s attorney’s fees for its succesful defense of a class action sexual harassment suit brought by the EEOC. The case, which was originally commenced in 2007, has been the subject of much commentary as it has unfolded. […]
On July 22, 2013, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that it had settled a federal court claim against It’s Just Lunch (IJL), a company based in Hallandale Beach, Florida. In its lawsuit, the EEOC alleged that IJL engaged in sex-based hiring practices by refusing to hire men into the position of dating directors. The EEOC alleged […]
The Homeowners’ Policy and Claims Bill of Rights Working Group is scheduled to hold a conference call Tuesday beginning at 10:00 to resume consideration of various issues relating to the homeowners insurance claims process. The Insurance Consumer Advocate previously indicated she hopes to have a draft report available by July 30, so the conference call likely will […]
Governor Rick Scott expressed his opposition to federal legislation that would deny tax deductions for reinsurance premiums paid to foreign-based reinsurers affiliated with domestic insurers. Governor Scott outlined his concerns in a letter to U.S. Representative Vern Buchanan, Florida’s representative on the House Ways and Means Committee. (letter) Governor Scott indicates that the proposal will […]
