The Senate Budget Committee voted to support a bill Saturday morning that could reduce how much private insurers -- and in turn their customers -- must immediately pay to cover costs that the dangerously large Citizens Property Insurance Corp. cant handle after a storm.
Sen. Steve Oelrich, R-Gainesville, the sponsor of the bill, said the widely supported SB 1346 is designed to keep private companies solvent after a storm and is aimed at attracting more insurance companies into the Florida market.
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The U.S. Justice Department wants to take Florida to trial over two voting laws.
In court papers filed late Friday night, Florida officials opposed the move and noted that the federal court hearing the case in the District of Columbia wants sufficient time to issue a decision before the August primaries, the Associated Press reported.
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Judge Carl J. Barbier of the Federal District Court in New Orleans issued an order late Friday night to award victims of the BP oil spill $7.8 billion in damages.
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In his weekly address, Gov. Rick Scott thanked the Florida House for approving on Friday HB 119, which is aimed at reducing fraud in the personal injury protection auto insurance.
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The furor over Rush Limbaugh's "sluts" and "free sex" rant over contraception is chipping away at his advertising base.
Bowing to pressure from feminists and other groups, several sponsors have stopped airing what Limbaugh has heretofore affectionately called "obscene profit center breaks" on his show.
Among the dropouts: Sleep Train and Sleep Number mattresses, Legal Zoom and Quicken Loans. ProFlowers had more than 2,600 comments on its website from posters demanding that they, too, pull their ads.
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Kirk Fordham's column in the Tallahassee Democrat on Friday, "Restoration is about more than just the Everglades," is a superb example of how environmentalists in this country overreach, blow it, and end up preaching to the choir.
Few social scientists, and even fewer political scientists, have done as much to improve American life as James Q. Wilson, who died last week at age 80.
"The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. The next and most urgent counsel is to take stock of reality."
-- William F. Buckley
Florida's two biggest business lobbying groups have been mostly satisfied with the ongoing legislative session, even as a number of big ticket items have yet to be resolved and one was on the losing side of the high-profile -- and ultimately unsuccessful --attempt to bring three large casinos to South Florida.
The agendas for both the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Associated Industries of Florida place both business-friendly organizations on track for another successful session.
Florida taxpayers could save hundreds of millions of dollars annually in utility costs if cities turned over their municipal electric systems to Florida Power & Light, an independent study shows.
Of the 33 Florida cities that own and operate electric utilities, none have rates lower than FPL and only two are within 10 percent of FPL pricing, according to the analysis compiled by Glenn Heran, a Vero Beach-based CPA and consultant.
