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FHCF to Discuss Insurer Reporting and Responsibility Rules
The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF) has scheduled a rule development workshop for January 5 to discuss potential revisions to rule 19-8.029 relating to insurer reporting and 19-8.030 governing insurer responsibilities. These are longstanding rules that govern topics such as insurers’ reporting of exposures and losses to the FHCF. The FHCF reviews and updates these […]
Florida Homeowners Insurers Pass Stress Test
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation released a report summarizing the results of its annual reinsurance data call and stress test. Under the stress test, residential property insurers are required to identify how their reinsurance programs would respond to several hurricane scenarios, including a single large event or multiple smaller events. According to the OIR’s […]
CFO Calls for Insurance Company Stress Test
Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater recently called for an insurance company stress test designed to give consumers confidential that Florida’s residential property insurers are well-managed and will be able to deliver when Florida next experiences a hurricane. Atwater believes the results should be made public and should show the process the insurers, particularly smaller insurers, […]
Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund to Revise Reporting Rules
The Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund on December 17, 2010 proposed amendments to administrative rules adopting its exposure and loss reporting forms. The proposed revisons would make a series of changes to the FHCF data call, to which insurers respond each year providing the characteristics of their in-force portfolios. In addition, the proposed rules would amend […]
OIR to Review Sinkhole Claims Problem
The Office of Insurance Regulation has heard reports of increased frequency for sinkhole claims, particularly in areas of Florida that are not usually identified with sinkhole problems. Mounting sinkhole losses for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation and admitted market insurers have prompted the OIR to send a data call to insurers to develop more information from […]