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Radey Thomas Yon & Clark congratulates Taproot Creative, developer of our www.radeylaw.com website, on its recent ADDY award in the interactive media division. Taproot Creative submitted www.radeylaw.com for consideration as an example of its website development work, and the site won a silver ADDY award from the American Advertising Federation. Radey Thomas Yon & Clark […]
As many observers noted, the EEOC’s Performance Results for the FY 2009 Performance and Accountability Report (PAR) were released toward the end of last year. The PAR is based on the EEOC’s current modified Strategic Plan for FY 2007 through FY 2010 which was approved by the Commission in 2008. The current strategic plan contained […]
Senator Garrett Richter’s Cat Fund bill (CS/SB 1460) sailed through the Banking and Insurance Committee. The bill addresses the accounting problems insurers have encountered with the contract year change made in statutory amendments last year. The bill will require companies to execute reimbursement agreements in March, but provide that the contract year will still run […]
On February 22, 2010, the Office of Insurance Regulation held a workshop on potential revisions to the workers’ compensation insurance excessive profits rule (69O-189.007, F.A.C.) and its incorporated Excessive Profits Reporting Form (OIR-B1-15). The Office is engaging in rulemaking as the result of an agreement reached with the petitioner in an ongoing administrative law rule […]
Earlier this month, the EEOC announced that the agency had secured its largest Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) settlement in history. The case against Sears Roebuck & Co was brought in the Northern District of Illinois in 2004 and just this month resulted in a court approved settlement. In the lawsuit, the EEOC claimed that Sears implemented […]
Among many other items of interest, President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 includes a continued COBRA subsidy proposal. If enacted (and made retroactive to its proposed start date of March 1, 2010), the provision would continue a 65% subsidy for qualified workers who are laid off between March 31, 2010 and December 31, 2010. […]
Coventry First LLC is a Florida viatical settlement provider. It provided the OIR with thousands of pages of documents during OIR’s regulatory investigation of Coventry’s business in 2007. Among the documents produced to the OIR were Coventry trade secrets. When the documents were produced, the Insurance Code made the documents confidential and exempt from disclosure […]
By statute, the OIR is to adopt an administrative rule that creates a “report card” for personal residential property insurers. This is to include a letter-grade scale which grades each insurer on the number and nature of consumer complaints received by the Department of Financial Services against the insurer, the disposition of complaints, the average […]
At today’s Senate Banking and Insurance Committee meeting, the Committee responded favorably to all the proposed legislation on its agenda. SB844 amends the Insurance Code to enhance penalties for unethical annuities sales practices and provides additional consumer protections for senior citizens who purchase annuity products. SB844, introduced by Senator Bennett, was reported favorably by the […]
On February 1, Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced that he was removing the “acting” from Jack McDermott’s title, making him the Director of Communications for the Office of Insurance Regulation. His duties will include overall media relations, public information, speechwriting and content of all Office reports and publications. Jack has worked at the Office for […]
