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With the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) became the Chairman of the influential Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on September 10, 2009. Although the HELP committee has spent much time on the topic of health care reform, Washington insiders expect that the HELP committee will soon turn its attention to […]
Citizens Property Insurance Corporation had its first rate increase in several years approved by Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty on October 29, 2009. The Order approves rates for the Personal Lines Account and the Mobile Homeowners Physical Damage Accounts and Commercial Lines Accounts. The order approving the filing does not address the High Risk Accounts (coastal territories […]
There is little doubt that Congress and the White House are moving rapidly to pass laws affecting the workplace. In fact, the first piece of legislation signed by President Obama was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act which expanded the limitations period applicable to some claims of unfair compensation under the Equal Pay Act. This […]
The Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology continued its discussion of Florida’s mitigation discount program on October 29, 2009. The commission received testimony from several interested parties. Among these presentations, I gave the commission information about the effects of the current discount program on premium levels and insurers’ underwriting decisions. My comments highlighted several […]
Insurance Commissioner, Kevin McCarty, accepted the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) revised rate filing and issued an order approving a rate decrease of 6.8% on October 26, 2009. The Office and NCCI had previously reached an agreement on the amount of the decrease, 6.8%, but the Office took issue with some of the NCCI’s methodology, […]
This past week, the White House announced President Obama’s selection for the EEOC’s General Counsel position: P. David Lopez. Mr. Lopez is a seasoned litigator and has served the EEOC for more than 13 years in various capacities. This year alone, Mr. Lopez appears as counsel of record on more than 10 federal opinions published […]
This month, the USDOL Wage and Hour Division announced that it had recovered $560,000 in back wages owed to workers of Stone and Webster Construction Company in Pueblo, Colorado. That number may seem large, but Wage and Hour has announced similar and larger amounts this year, highlighted by April’s announcement of a 1.7 million dollar back […]
President Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (“GINA”) into law on May 21, 2008. Title II of GINA applies to employers and forbids the use of genetic information in employment. As most employers are aware, GINA required the EEOC to publish and implement rules to interpret Title II. Earlier this year, the EEOC published its Notice […]
The EEOC’s published charge data for fiscal year 2008 shows a significant increase in charge activity. In 2008, the EEOC received a total of 95,402 charges of unlawful employment practices. That is the largest amount of charges recorded for any of the last ten fiscal years and a 15% increase in charge activity from last year […]
Sean Shaw, Florida’s Insurance Consumer Advocate, has scheduled a second roundtable for November 18, 2009, to discuss possible improvements to the insurance claims settlement process. The Consumer Advocate hosted an initial roundtable on this topic over the summer and invited contractors and insurance claims personnel to discuss issues they have seen in determining the amount […]
