The Florida House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Hurricane Response and Preparedness met yesterday, October 26, 2017, to discuss various disaster-response related items, including emergency management operational communications, evacuations, petroleum supplies and distribution, and electric utilities.  Presenters represented both public …

House Hurricane Committee Mulls What Went Wrong During, After Irma On Thursday, the House Select Committee on Hurricane Response and Preparedness heard about issues affecting Florida during Irma.  A.G. Gancarski reports. Florida Cities Ranked Most Vulnerable to Coastal Floods Due …

Florida’s cost for deadly hurricane keeps going up The tab for Hurricane Irma keeps rising, and Florida legislators are warning that it could require some tough budget choices for next year.  The Associated Press reports via the Palm Beach Post. …

Florida CFO Voices Concerns to FEMA Over Policy Management Vendor Transition Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis is urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reconsider an upcoming vendor transition that he says could delay the processing of federal flood …

At its meeting yesterday, October 24, 2017, the Florida Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance (“Committee”) convened a panel of expert witnesses to testify on the effects of Post-Loss Assignment of Benefits (“AOB”) and one-way attorneys’ fees. The panel comprised …

The U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services’ Housing and Insurance Subcommittee held a hearing entitled “The Federal Government’s Role in the Insurance Industry” yesterday, October 24, 2017.   The hearing examined both the domestic and international roles of the Federal Insurance …

Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Sha’Ron James will host the fourth and final Emergency Medical Transportation Working Group meeting on October 31, 2017 in Tallahassee. The Insurance Consumer Advocate formed the 13-member Working Group in October 2016 to study the impact …

Galvano Brings Policy Skills To Top Senate Post Senator Bill Galvano, a 51-year-old lawyer from Bradenton, will be designated Tuesday by Senate Republicans as the next president of the Florida Senate.  THE NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA’s Lloyd Dunkelberger reports. ·         …

Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier and Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Sha’Ron James will headline the Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance Assignment of Benefits panel tomorrow, October 24, 2017.  Olympus Insurance Company Chairman Jeffrey Scott and Citizens Property Insurance Corporation …

Florida’s Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist When Hurricanes aren’t smashing Florida’s Low-Lying Strip Malls and Red-Roof Houses, the State’s machine of inexorable growth is already destroying the natural resources that have helped make that growth so inexorable.  Politico’s Michael Grunwald reports. …