Regulation/Legislation

The Florida Legislature has given final passage to a bill reinstating an attorneys' fee cap in workers' compensation cases in response to a State Supreme Court ruling that an existing fee restriction was unenforceable.

A research firm's finding that closing a tax loophole for offshore insurers could cost U.S. insurance consumers more than $10 billion per year has been attacked as flawed by the Coalition for a Domestic Insurance Industry.

The Florida House of Representatives gave final approval and sent the governor a bill that could raise home coverage rates by up to 10 percent for policyholders with the state-created Citizens Insurance Corp.

One of the highlights of my career as insurance commissioner and treasurer has to be that cover photo on Florida Underwriter's December 2002 issue. This magazine depicted me clad in a suit of armor,

Kevin McCarty began his career in public service in 1988 when he joined the Florida Department of Labor & Employment Security, quickly becoming an expert on workers' compensation issues. In 1991, he

Florida has the ninth largest volume of insurance premiums in the world -- larger than Texas, Canada, even China. Given that volume, decisions made in Tallahassee don't just affect policyholders from