To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida bill would allow easier climb for property-insurance rates Florida lawmakers are again seeking to loosen rules on property insurers by allowing them to more quickly raise …

  Members of the Florida Cabinet, meeting as the State Board of Administration (“SBA”) and the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Financing Corporation today, March 4, 2010, deferred consideration of a resolution to authorize the issuance and sale of Florida Hurricane …

    To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida State Senate leader outlines education reforms for session Seeking to dispel the notion of a do-nothing legislative session, Senate President Jeff Atwater today outlined an energetic …

The Miami Herald published this article on March 4, 2010 BY SHANNON COLAVECCHIO Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau The proposed constitutional amendment to freeze class size counts is expected to clear its final Senate committee Thursday, paving the way for an early …

The Miami Herald published this opinion piece on March 4, 2010. BY MARK B. ROSENBERG Recent Gallup poll findings that 20 percent of Americans are either unemployed or employed part time are a sobering reminder of the challenges ahead to …

  At its March 3, 2010 meeting, the Florida Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance (“Committee”) considered a strike-everything proposed committee substitute that would amend an omnibus property insurance package onto a “shell” bill, Senate Bill 2044.  Representing a collaboration …

March 3, 2010 Summary of Commentary onCurrent Economic Conditionsby Federal Reserve District     Prepared at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and based on information collected on or before February 22, 2010. This document summarizes comments received from …

  SB 1460, which provides a remedy for the FHCF Contract Year, was passed unanimously (38-0) by the Florida Senate today, March 3, 2010.  The House of Representatives is expected to consider HB 1460 sometime next week (March 8-12). The House version of …

    Above:  To access a full-size version of this graphic, entitled “How Risky is Your Insurer?” click here.   To view a complete story, click on a headline below:   Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate Forms Coalition to Fight for …

As part of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (“NAIC”) Spring 2010 National Meeting, the NAIC’s Center for Insurance Policy and Research will hold a special workers’ compensation forum on March 26, 2010 to evaluate specific recommendations cited in a …