Senate panel to prep massive changes to property insurance market
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Office of Insurance Regulation
Editorial: Let state deny greed-based health insurance increases
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CFO Atwater Supports Comprehensive Approach to Property Market
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater spoke before the Senate Banking & Insurance Committee to say that “standing still” on Florida property insurance issues is not an option. Atwater encouraged the committee to pursue legislation designed to reduce the potential assessment burden on all Floridians that would arise from deficiencies in the state-created insurance entities. […]
It’s decision time on federal health care plan
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New auto insurance laws make consumers jump
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Doctors dispute Fla. workers compensation report
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Editorial: Make auto insurance reductions mandatory
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OIR Releases Workers Compensation Report
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has released its most recent annual report discussing the state of Florida’s workers’ compensation insurance market. According to section 627.211(6), Florida Statutes, the Office of Insurance Regulation must prepare a report for the legislature each year assessing the competitiveness of Florida’s workers’ compensation market. In this year’s report, the […]
Insurance costs rise despite lack of storms
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2012 Saw its Share of Insurance Issues
By some standards, there were fewer blockbuster issues in the Florida insurance market in 2012 than in some prior years. After all, this was not a year in which the legislature needed to tackle workers’ compensation or medical malpractice reform, and efforts at bad faith reform stalled fairly early in the legislative session. Florida thankfully […]