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The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has issued a new administrative order extending the opportunity to certify personal lines property and casualty insurance forms through December 31, 2013. The OIR previously issued orders allowing insurers to certify both commercial lines and personal lines forms, except for workers’ compensation forms. A newly enacted statute (section 627.4102) takes effect for […]
Under orders issued by the Office of Insurance Regulation last year, property and casualty insurers may certify their product forms’ compliance with the insurance code as an alternative to submitting them to the OIR for prior review and approval. The OIR’s most recent order, issued in December 2012 and numbered 130176-12, covers both commercial and […]
The Florida legislature in Senate Bill 468 created a new section 627.4102, Florida Statutes, relating to the informational filing of property and casualty product forms. The bill was approved by Governor Scott and became Chapter Law 2013-66. The new statute takes effect July 1, 2013. It allows insurers to certify the compliance of their property […]
Governor Rick Scott has signed SB 1842 pertaining to health insurance into law. The law makes changes to the Florida Insurance Code necessary to allow the state’s regulations to conform to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Among its provisions, the new law will allow the Office of Insurance Regulation to review health […]
Senate President Don Gaetz recently discussed the possibility that the legislature could renew efforts in 2014 to repeal the salary tax credit available to insurers for employees hired within Florida. The Senate tried to repeal the salary tax credit this year and use the increased revenues to reduce motor vehicle registration fees by $12 per registration. Gaetz […]
Governor Rick Scott has signed SB 1770 into law. At the outset of the 2013 legislative session, SB 1770 contained an ambitious set of reforms designed to reduce the size of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation and reduce the degree to which it competes with the admitted market. The final package, however, contained a milder set of compromise […]
The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has announced that it intends to submit a rate filing to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) in early June to reflect the rate reduction associated with SB 662. The bill has not yet been acted upon by Governor Scott. If it becomes law, the effective date […]
While Florida did not take any action on new Medicaid choices under the federal law, it did enact CS/SB 1842 for the purpose of making changes to the Florida Insurance Code related to health insurance policies to address provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The PPACA requires health insurers to make […]
The legislature altered Florida’s form and rate filing statutes in SB 468. Perhaps most significantly, the legislature specified that a forms certification process similar to the one currently in effect by OIR order will continue for commercial property and casualty insurance. However, personal lines and workers’ compensation are specifically carved out of the statutory change […]
The legislature passed the Cancer Treatment Fairness Act late in the 2013 session as part of HB 1159. The act takes effect July 1, 2014. It creates section 627.42391 relating to health insurers and section 641.313 relating to health maintenance organizations. The act requires insurers and HMO’s to cover prescribed orally administered cancer medications in […]
