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florida insurance

Insurance Commissioner’s Blurry Prediction of Rate Increases Under Obamacare Contradicted

September 2, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 12 Comments

RAND study findings stand in stark contrast to the widely publicized predictions of Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty that the individual market would see rate increases of 30 to 40 percent for next year.

Some 600,000 Floridians Getting Rebates from Insurers Not Complying With Health Care Law

July 17, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Because insurers are overspending on profits and administration instead of medical care, the amount that must be refunded in this state by Aug. 1 tops $54 million. That’s only half of what insurers had to pay in rebates to Floridians last year. Nationally, insurers are refunding $504 million.

Registering Your Car Will Cost $12 Less as Lawmakers Plan End to Insurers’ Tax Credit

March 29, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved a bill Thursday lowering motor vehicle fees in exchange for repealing an insurance tax credit, turning aside protests from the insurance industry that the measure would hurt a thriving business.

Florida’s Broke, But It’s Refusing a $1 Million Health Insurance Oversight Grant Anyway

February 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

florida health care premiums federal grant insurance.

Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty forfeit a $1 million federal grant that was supposed to go toward beefing up oversight of health-insurance rates.

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