The Florida legislature has released its multi-faceted proposals for reforming Florida’s property insurance market. The proposed legislation includes temporarily expanding available capacity from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, incentivizing loss mitigation through windstorm protective devices, increasing regulatory oversight for distressed insurers, and curbing Florida’s litigation crisis by rebalancing attorneys’ fee incentives. To effectively address Florida’s […]
Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal has upheld the ability of a policyholder to make multiple assignments under a homeowners insurance policy. Nicon Construction v. Homeowners Choice Property and Casualty Insurance Company involved a policyholder’s issuing assignments of benefits to two separate vendors. The insurer argued that upon the policyholder’s assigning the policy rights to […]
