Florida’s Special Legislative Session on Property Insurance starts on Monday. Florida’s legislators, except for its leaders and those in the Governor’s office do not know what is being proposed.
Continue Reading Where Is the Draft of the Special Session Insurance Bill?
Yesterday, the Colorado Division of Insurance (DORA) issued Emergency Regulation 22-E-15 Concerning Law and Ordinance Coverage Relating to the Marshall Fire.1
Continue Reading Colorado Emergency Regulation 22-E-15 Concerning the Marshall Fire and Law & Ordinance Coverage
Note: This guest post is by Brian S. Goodman. Brian is a partner at the Baltimore law firm of Goodman & Donohue, LLC. He is also General Counsel to NAPIA.
As a guest blogger for Chip Merlin, I am honored to write a bit about the history and purpose of the National Association of Public Insurance Adjusters (NAPIA), an organization for which I have served as General Counsel for over two decades.
Continue Reading The History of NAPIA and Its Importance to the Public Adjusting Profession
Merlin Law Group Attorney and State Representative at Florida House Of Representatives, Sean Shaw, will be LIVE today at 11am EST talking about this year’s legislative session in Tallahassee. Here’s your chance to ask questions before the session. You don’t want to miss it! Go to https://www.facebook.com/seanmichaelshaw @ 11am EST 3/2/17 to tune in.
Merlin Law Group’s own Brandee Bower was recently awarded the Pro Bono/Public Service Award from UMKC law school. This award is given to an alumnus who has made an outstanding contribution to the public welfare through the legal profession.
Continue Reading Award Winning Attorneys at Merlin Law Group – Brandee Bower
Last week, the Palm Beach Post ran a story that indicated Rick Scott thought national windstorm insurance might be the answer to Florida’s looming insurance crisis. Eliot Kleinberg wrote:
Many Florida homeowners live in fear of losing their windstorm insurance. Gov. Rick Scott suggested today that windstorm coverage go the way of flood insurance and become nationalized.
"It would make a lot of sense," Scott said at a start-of-the-season news conference at the National Hurricane Center in Miami-Dade County.
Continue Reading And the Insurance Industry Comes Out Swinging
On April 4, Doctors Philip J. Klotzbach and William M. Gray, of Colorado State University’s Tropical Meteorlogy Project, released their Extended Range Forecast of Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Activity and Landfall Strike Probability for 2012. In summary, they predict:
The issue of whether the 2005 Florida Statute sections 627.7065, 627 .7072, and 627.7073 (2005), which affected sinkhole database information, testing standards, and reporting requirements, created a presumption that shifted the burden of proof to the homeowner in litigation to disprove an insurer’s expert’s opinion that damage was not caused by a sinkhole has been in question for several years. Last month, the Florida Supreme Court definitively held the statutes do not create a presumption in litigation.
Continue Reading Florida Supreme Court Holds that the Presumption Favoring Insurers Created in Florida Statute 627.7073(1)(c) (2005) Does Not Apply in Litigation
Property Casualty 360 posted a story by the Associated Press, describing the continuing saga of Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corporations’ Hurricane Rita and Katrina claims.
Continue Reading With $100 Million on the Line, Louisiana’s State Run Insurer of Last Resort is Turning to the U.S. Supreme Court
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