Category: Insurance Regulatory News

The Miami Herald published this article on March 8, 2010. A Coral Gables couple are indicted a second time on charges of stealing the private records of patients to sell to lawyers for personal-injury claims. BY JAY WEAVER Last year, …

Following is a listing of insurance-related Florida legislative and regulatory events for the week of March 8-12, 2010: Note:  All times are Eastern Standard Time.  Additional information is available via hyperlink were noted in bold type.   FLORIDA INSURANCE LEGISLATIVE …

The St. Petersburg Times published the following article today, March 8, 2010, that details various new reporting organizations that are growing to cover Florida legislative developments:   New Tallahassee news is brought to you by? By Lucy Morgan, Times Senior …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Editorial: The Cost Of Crist Crist’s support for government-regulated insurance has placed Florida in a precarious financial situation in which one major hurricane, or multiple storms in …

The South Florida SunSentinel published this article on March 5, 2010. The Florida Senate’s insurance committee narrowly struck down a proposal from Insurance Consumer Advocate Sean Shaw this week that would allow his office to participate in insurance rate hearings. …

The Sarasota Herald-Tribune published this article on March 5, 2010. By STEVE POCIASK Guest Columnist If an insurance company sold you a homeowners policy knowing that, if disaster was to strike, they probably couldn’t pay your claim, you would call …

The Miami Herald published this article on March 5, 2010. BY SCOTT HIAASEN The federal government has called American Pain a “pill mill.” But the Lake Worth pain clinic operated more like a factory, churning through 250 patients a day, …

The Miami Herald published this article on March 5, 2010. Florida CFO Alex Sink attempted to cast the state’s multibillion-dollar Medicaid fraud problem as a vulnerability for rival Bill McCollum, as both run for governor. BY MARY ELLEN KLAS AND …

The Florida Current published this article on March 5, 2010. Gary Fineout The amount of money that state lawmakers will have for road-building and other transportation projects is sinking a new forecast shows. State economists with the Office of Economic …

The Florida Current published this article on March 5, 2010 Bruce Ritchie The Senate Community Affairs Committee on Thursday passed SB 1742 but only after Sen. Mike Bennett offered an amendment to remove language dealing with last year’s controversial growth management …