Gov. Crist vetoed the so-called “State Farm” bill, HB 1171, which would have provided the state’s more fiscally sound insurance companies with the leeway to issue homeowner’s insurance policies largely free from rate regulation. I have spent a considerable amount of time reading as much as I can find about this bill and confess that [...]
The Ledger is reporting on a new Supreme Court decision concerning the obligation of the government to educate students with special needs in private schools under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The article mentions a local case I blogged about in-depth last year, so I’m posting a link back to it for those who [...]
The Ledger reported recently about the sentencing of a Davenport resident to the mandatory minimum of 20 years in prison for firing a gun to run his daughter’s boyfriend out of the house. It’s not hard, looking at the text of the law itself, to predict a problem of exactly this sort. As a result, one [...]
This past legislative session, HB 903 was passed which restored a cap on plaintiff’s attorney’s fees in workers’ compensation cases. This bill was heavily lobbied on both sides, pitting various business organizations and insurance companies against the plaintiffs’ workers’ comp attorneys and certain unions. Was the lofty rhetoric spewed by either side accurate? Does the [...]
A family of sandhill cranes and the alien-like Florida softshell turtle.