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The Florida legislative session began on March 4, 2025, with opening remarks from Speaker of the House Daniel Perez, Senate President Ben Albritton and Governor Ron DeSantis. The comments of Speaker Perez attracted the most attention from observers of Florida’s property insurance market. Speaker Perez generally said he wants the Florida House to focus on […]
The insurance industry should stay tuned in the 2018 session for potential updates to Florida’s trade secret laws. Insurers are familiar with Section 624.4213, which creates a process for protecting information submitted to the Office of Insurance Regulation or the Florida Department of Financial Services. Although the current law has been helpful in creating a […]
Florida’s First District Court of Appeal has upheld a lower court ruling in favor of State Farm Florida Insurance Company in its claim that its QUASR data submissions constitute trade secrets. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation collects information from insurers about where they are writing policies (or may be reducing policies). The information is […]
Robert Ridenour of the Office of Insurance Regulation led an informative discussion of changes to the acquisition statement filing process at the recent OIR “Navigating the Changing Insurance Environment” conference. Section 628.461, Florida Statutes, has long governed the filings requires when a person seeks to acquire five percent or more of the outstanding voting securities […]
The Office of Insurance Regulation provided an overview of the trade secret filing requirements at its 2014 “Navigating the Changing Insurance Environment” industry conference. Virginia Christy of the OIR described the statutes that relate to trade secret filings and the process that ensues when a public records request encompasses documents marked as trade secrets. Florida […]
Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty welcomed a large group to Tallahassee on October 30, 2014, for the Office of Insurance Regulation’s 2014 industry conference entitled, “Navigating the Changing Insurance Environment.” The conference drew a large number of participants in person at the Florida State University Turnbull Conference Center, and others participated remotely through a live webcast. […]
The Office of Insurance Regulation has issued informational memorandum OIR-14-02M notifying insurers of changes to the I-File system relating to the handling of trade secret documents. The I-File system accepts, tracks and makes publicly available insurers’ form and rate filings. However, certain required documents might be trade secrets, which can be protected in the I-File system and […]
