Colodny Fass has prepared its annual bill chart to assist in tracking pending priority state-level insurance issues during the 2010 Florida Legislative Session, which runs from March 2 through April 30, 2010.  Revised as of April 21, 2010, the …

  The Florida House took up HB 447 on second reading today, April 19, 2010. State Representative Bill Proctor, the original sponsor, explained HB 447, noting that its primary purpose is to give homeowners a choice in purchasing property insurance. …

  Colodny Fass has prepared its annual bill chart to assist in tracking pending priority state-level insurance issues during the 2010 Florida Legislative Session, which runs from March 2 through April 30, 2010.  Revised as of April 20, 2010, the …

  The Florida Automobile Joint Underwriting Association’s (“FAJUA”) Board of Governors (“Board”) met in Tampa on April 20, 2010.    During the meeting, the Board devoted much debate to the question of whether to offer payment plans to consumers.  FAJUA General …

The FPCA Automobile Division will be meeting via teleconference on Friday, April 23, at 2:00 p.m.  The call-in number is 800.369.1285; conference code:  63015#. An agenda for the meeting, as well as minutes from the April 16, 2010 meeting, are …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida House and Senate get beyond impasse in budget negotiations Negotiations on a new state budget picked up steam Monday as legislators sought common ground in hopes …

The following article appeared in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune on April 18, 2010:   American Keystone was backed financially by a Sarasota man who had been banned by the insurance industry, but still managed to win a license to sell policies. …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Paige St. John:  Regulators take a gamble on discount insurance People’s Trust Insurance CEO Mike Gold uses phone sales to cut costs. Mike Gold’s idea to transform …

Reports on new statistical tracking tools and other strategies to expedite claims service performance, the identification of inconsistent or fraudulent claims and the enhancement of training for independent adjusters was the focus of Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s (“Citizens”) Claims Committee …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida’s Plant City Plagued by Sinkholes; ‘We Just Sit Here and Watch Them Grow’ Volcanoes and earthquakes get all the attention. But what about sinkholes?   Florida …