Motorists will be able to continue to ask for directions, tell their spouse what time they’ll be home, or just chatter aimlessly on their cell phone while driving in Florida. A measure that would have made it against the law …
Flashlights, radios, tarps and other hurricane supplies would be tax free for 12 days at the beginning of hurricane season, under a measure the Florida House has under consideration. Floridians received a similar tax break last year leading into hurricane …
Florida homeowners could see average property insurance savings ranging from around 10 percent in the Panhandle to more than half the cost of their policy in South Florida because of a new law, state insurance officials said. Statewide, homeowners with …
This could be the people’s year in Tallahassee, if you believe state lawmakers. “There is a feeling out there that we in government aren’t listening, that in the sound and fury of partisan politics, the people’s voices are not being …
In a forceful rebuke to insurance companies, Gov. Charlie Crist cajoled fellow Cabinet members into approving a rule Tuesday that will prevent property insurers from canceling Florida policies for much of the rest of this year. The emergency rule will …
The Florida Legislature on Monday overwhelmingly passed a bill members hope will lower Floridians’ skyrocketing property insurance rates and sent the measure to Gov. Charlie Crist, who has demanded meaningful relief for home owners. The House passed the bill 116-2 …
Florida homeowners could see property insurance rates cut by as much as 40 percent under a plan finalized by lawmakers hoping to reverse hurricane-fueled increases many residents say have threatened to price them out of their homes. Lawmakers said the …
Florida lawmakers wish they could simply outlaw hurricanes. That would solve the state’s insurance crisis. Unfortunately, changing the weather seems easier than what legislators have on their hands. As they return to the Capitol Tuesday for a weeklong special session …
Hurricanes and flu outbreaks wouldn’t seem to have much in common. But Florida officials say that if a global outbreak of influenza emerges, sickening millions, many of the lessons learned responding to storms would help them deal with the pandemic. …
Florida Senate President Ken Pruitt informed Senate staff last Wednesday that lawmakers may have a special session in January aimed at easing the state’s property insurance crisis. Gov. Jeb Bush had been hoping for months that lawmakers might be able …
