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Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Florida Association for Insurance Reform (FAIR) at its 2015 awards banquet. FAIR is a non-profit association that works to educate consumers and industry stakeholders about the effects of insurance public policy considerations. FAIR attempts to encourage dialogue among consumers, insurers, public adjusters, the trial […]
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) has issued an order establishing the 2016 commercial lines rates for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens). The overall estimated statewide average rate changes are shown in the chart below. The effective date for both new and renewal rates within the Commercial Lines and Coastal Accounts is February 1, 2016. […]
Travis Miller discusses the issue of charging credit card fees by insurance agents.
From time to time, questions arise as to whether an agent may impose credit card fees on customer transactions. The insurance code treats this issue differently for agents than for insurers. The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently summarized the ability of agents to charge credit card fees as follows: If a credit card company […]
For a variety of reasons, an agent operating an insurance agency might find it necessary to close the agency’s operations. The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently identified three key steps that agents might overlook when closing an agency in Florida. Surrender the agency license. First, DFS points out that the agent will need to […]
The Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) recently advised in its Insurance Insights publication that it has seen an increase in the number of potentially misleading agency names following the enactment of the Affordable Care Act. Under Florida law, an agency cannot have a name that would be potentially misleading or deceptive. For example, agency […]
Floridians received some good news Saturday morning as Erika began to dissipate. Even so, storm paths and storm strengths can be difficult to predict, so many us will keep watching the Weather Channel this weekend. It’s hard to believe that ten years have passed since Florida saw the unprecedented series of hurricanes in 2004 and […]
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The Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) recently commented on the rate filing it received from the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) proposing a statewide average premium decrease of 2.2%. The OIR pointed out that the filing includes a statewide average rate decrease of 1.9% and a reduction of the fixed expense cost applicable to […]
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation held a workshop at its office in Tallahassee to discuss potential amendments to key administrative rules governing insurance holding company systems and transactions between insurers and their affiliates. The workshop is the first step in the administrative rule making process, which ultimately leads to formal revisions to regulations governing […]
