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Insurance Premium Taxes Under Discussion in Florida and Connecticut

Insurance Premium Taxes Under Discussion in Florida and Connecticut

Policymakers in Florida and Connecticut appear to be moving in different directions as they evaluate the impact of insurance premium taxes in their respective states. Florida law currently provides for a salary credit against the insurance premium tax, which serves to partially offset insurers’ premium tax obligations based upon the salaries they pay to Florida […]

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Federal Judge in Pensacola Declares Individual Mandate In PPACA Unconstitutional, Strikes Down Entire Act

Federal Judge in Pensacola Declares Individual Mandate In PPACA Unconstitutional, Strikes Down Entire Act

Today Judge Roger Vinson of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida – Pensacola Division agreed with Florida and twenty-five other states that the federal government cannot force its citizens to buy health insurance as it sought to do in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as amended (“PPACA”).  After concluding […]

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