Citizens Meetings

Dec 1, 2007

Citizens Meetings Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (“Citizens”) will hold the following meetings on Thursday, December 11 and Friday, December 12: Consumer Services Committee-Thursday, December 11 at 1:00 p.m. The call-in number for this meeting is: 877.524.8401 Finance and Investment Committee-Thursday, …

Panel revives the property tax swap

Nov 30, 2007

BY MARY ELLEN KLAS The Miami Herald The tax swap is back. A plan to replace some property taxes with a temporary increase in the sales tax is under review by the panel that has the power to put such …

Managers work on solutions for $14 billion frozen in fund

Nov 30, 2007

Florida Today, 11/30/2007Florida Capital Bureau TALLAHASSEE — Florida money managers expect today to hire an independent adviser to help guide the state through a financial panic that shut down local accounts in a $14 billion investment pool. They also today …

State cuts access to billions

Nov 30, 2007

From the Tallahassee Democrat School boards and local governments demand access to $14 billion of their money, frozen Thursday by state officials attempting to stop a financial panic. Local governments, skittish about the quality of state-managed investments, withdrew more than …

Florida Senate Files Amicus Brief in House v. Crist

Nov 30, 2007

The Florida Senate issued the following information in regard to its filing of an amicus brief with the Florida Supreme Court in House of Representatives v. Crist, the case relating to the recent compact between the State of Florida and …

Florida Self-Insurers Guaranty Association Board Meeting Report

Nov 30, 2007

On Friday, November 30, 2007, this office attended the Florida Self-Insurers Guaranty Association, Inc. (“Association”) Board Meeting in Tallahassee, Florida.  Executive Director Brian Gee and Board Chairman Claude Revels led the meeting.  The Association is primarily responsible for guaranteeing that …