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Client Alerts
This alert, by Carlton Fields shareholder Kelly Cruz-Brown, addresses revisions to Florida’s 2012 captive insurance law.
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Client Alerts
This alert, from Carlton Fields shareholder Kelly Cruz-Brown, discusses a property insurance bill passed by Florida’s legislature.
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Client Alerts
This update, provided by Carlton Fields shareholder Kelly Cruz-Brown, discusses changes to Florida’s Insurance Code related to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s requirements.
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Client Alerts
This update, from Carlton Fields shareholder Kelly Cruz-Brown, discusses the Florida Legislature’s passage of a bill expanding annuity suitability standards.
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Client Alerts
This alert, by Carlton Fields shareholder Ken Tinkler, discusses Florida’s new Ethics Regulation and Campaign Finance Laws.
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Articles
This alert, by Carlton Fields senior government consultant Rheb Harbison, summarizes expected high-level policy issue that will be addressed during Florida’s 2013 legislative session, which opened this week.
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Resources
This chart, prepared by Carlton Fields Shareholders Marti Chumbler and Kelly Cruz-Brown, provides basic information on Florida’s executive branch agencies, boards, and commissions.
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This guide to lobbying, by Carlton Fields senior government consultant Rheb Harbison, provides companies with basic information regarding the practice in Florida. It includes definitions, an explanation of the two types of lobbying, and a discussion of how they are regulated.
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Articles
This article, by Carlton Fields shareholder Kelly Cruz-Brown, discusses the implementation of state-based health insurance exchanges as mandated by the Affordable Care Act. It includes a table that sets forth key dates associated with implementation.
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Client Alerts
Changes passed by the 2012 Florida Legislature specifically affecting title insurers and title agents are outlined.
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Resources
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Articles
In this article, Carlton Fields shareholder Martha Chumbler discusses the implications of Florida's open meetings and public records laws as they pertain to both government agencies' procurement activities, and the operations of businesses that contract with the government.
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Resources
The Office of Economic and Demographic Research (“EDR”) is the research arm of the Florida Legislature principally focused on forecasting economic and social trends that affect policy making, revenues, and appropriations. The EDR prepares an Economic Overview report of the state on a quarterly basis, typically presented in an easy-to-understand graphic format. On a positive note, the May 2012 edition reports that Florida’s economic growth has returned to positive territory after declining for 2 consecutive years, but Florida’s job market will take a long time to recover. Florida’s population growth is forecast to remain relatively flat until 2014, but is expected to increase slightly later. Florida is on target to break the 20 million population mark during 2016, and becoming the third most populous state in the U.S.
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Articles
In this article, Carlton Fields shareholder Ray Allen discusses the federal and state challenges that have left Florida’s water quality standards in a state of flux.
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Client Alerts
In this report, Rheb Harbison, a senior government consultant with Carlton Fields, discusses the implications of House Bill 711. The bill, which was passed by the Florida Legislature, requires a governing board or hospital district to evaluate its continued hospital ownership, and consider the benefits of selling or leasing its hospital to a for-profit or not-for-profit company by December 31, 2012.
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Articles
This article, by Carlton Fields shareholder Nancy Linnan, discusses changes to Florida growth management, environmental, and natural resources laws made by the 2012 Florida Legislature.
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Articles
This article, by Carlton Fields shareholder Martha Chumbler, discusses the 2012 Amendments to the Florida Administrative Procedures Act. The amendments reflect an effort to further the Governor’s goal of reducing the number of agency rules and ensuring that the Governor retains direct control of rulemaking by agencies under his supervision. The Amendments also transition the publication of the official code of state regulations and notice of rulemaking from a printed publication to an Internet website.
