To virtually no one's surprise, the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation vowed Tuesday to appeal a circuit judge's ruling that would block a 14.5 percent increase in workers' compensation insurance rates.
The office filed a notice of appeal. That will allow the rate increase to start taking effect Thursday as originally planned.
Senate President Joe Negron announced his Senate leadership team and committee chair assignments Tuesday afternoon, putting a variety of lawmakers at the helm of committees to pass legislation during the 2017 legislative session.
The Stuart Republican named Sen. Wilton Simpson, R-Trilby, as Senate Majority Leader for the 2016-2018 legislative term.
Simpson, who has served as a state senator since 2012, is in line to become Senate President in four years after Sen. Bill Galvano’s anticipated term which is scheduled to begin in 2019.
A lawyer who once worked to keep David Duke off the presidential ballot in Florida and two appellate judges who pledged to use judicial restraint are on a short list of replacements for retiring Florida Supreme Court Justice James E.C. Perry.
School choice advocates may have heaped praise upon President-Elect Donald Trump’s Education Secretary pick Betsy DeVos, but teachers aren’t too happy with the future head of the national education system -- and they’re fighting back.
"I think we're gonna do it." That was Blaise Ingoglia's message to Sunshine State News in Orlando nearly two years ago: assured, but cautious to come off too confident or boastful about the possibility of taking the helm of the state's Republican Party.
The news of Fidel Castro’s death has ended one chapter and opened up another in Cuban-American relations and Florida politicians -- part-time resident and President-Elect Donald Trump and U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio -- are prepared to take steps to move forward on relations with the Caribbean nation.
Florida leaders reacted to the death of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro early Saturday morning.
Raul Castro made the announcement his brother had died on Cuban television on Saturday. He was 90 years old. Few details other than his death were available at the time of the announcement, but the former Cuban ruler's health had declined in recent years.
Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who seized power in 1959, took over U.S. property on the island, embraced the Soviet Union and forced thousands of Cubans into exile, has died at the age of 90.
As they gathered a couple of days before Thanksgiving to get organized for next year's legislative session, many of the lawmakers at the Capitol had more to be grateful for than some extra time off, a pending feast of turkey and trimmings, and some midweek football
House Speaker Richard Corcoran, R-Land O' Lakes, and Senate President Joe Negron, R-Stuart, could be thankful that they had finally finished their long paths to the leadership of their respective chambers. Whether they could offer gratitude for being lined up opposite each other was yet to be determined.
Little more than a week before businesses were slated to get hit with increased workers' compensation insurance rates, a Leon County circuit judge Wednesday blocked the hike because of violations of Florida's Sunshine Law.
An organization that files workers' compensation rate proposals for insurers quickly said it would appeal.
