As in previous years, our December issue offers a retrospective of the topics we covered over these past 12 months. Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, and legislative and regulatory activity justifiably earned space in most issues. However, we also provided extensive coverage about workers’ compensation, excess and surplus lines, a variety of agency management topics, health care, and many of the ancillary lines of coverage that round out an agency’s book of business. We invite you to revisit 2011 through these excerpts. As an added bonus, our website makes it is easy to access the full text of all of our articles. Simply go to www.propertycasualty360.com, click on the Florida Underwriter magazine tab, select the appropriate month from the pull-down menu, and enjoy a second read of your favorite features. We have included the titles of the excerpted articles for easy reference.

JANUARY
Let’s Get to Work!
What a difference an election can make. Last year, some folks in the insurance industry and employer community wondered aloud whether the 2003 reforms cut injured workers’ benefits too deeply. Now, the man who occupies the governor’s mansion is calling for a 35 percent decrease in the cost of workers’ compensation insurance.

Last year, it was thought legislators might be under pressure to increase workers’ benefits in the 2011 session. Some legislators even raised the argument that because SB 50-A produced far greater savings than its proponents originally anticipated, the time had come to give some of those savings back in the form of higher benefits.