Staff ReportsJanuary 29, 2020
3min550
What's billed is rarely what's paid.
Tag: Florida Justice Reform Institute
Staff ReportsJanuary 29, 2020
Drew WilsonDecember 12, 2019
3min711
Florida went from No. 2 to off the list after DeSantis was sworn in.
Renzo DowneyNovember 12, 2019
6min450
No more cash, rebates or gift cards.
Drew WilsonNovember 12, 20194min873
2019 is on track to have as many auto glass lawsuits as last year
Drew WilsonMarch 27, 2019
5min1108
Florida is growing fast. AOB lawsuits are growing faster.
Staff ReportsOctober 22, 2018
3min614
Florida loses more than $11.8 billion and 126,000 jobs each year to “excessive” litigation, according to an analysis released Monday by the Florida Justice Reform Institute. The trend most hurts the retail sector, at a cost of more than 39,413 jobs, followed by business services, at 20,237, and health services, at 17,452, according to research conducted […]
Michael MolineFebruary 12, 2018
11min850
One argument in the debate over repeal of Florida’s no-fault auto insurance system isn’t finding much love in the Legislature — that the real key to lower premiums is reform of the legal rules governing coverage disputes that do land in court. People injured by covered motorists can resort to the tort system if carriers […]
Guest AuthorMarch 14, 2017
5min667
A state law that was originally intended to give individual policyholders special rights in disputes with their insurance companies is instead being used by some repair vendors and their lawyers to generate a self-serving windfall. The problem is serious and growing, and it’s driving insurance costs higher and higher. The so-called “one-way attorney fee” allows […]
Michael MolineFebruary 13, 2017
6min735
As the Legislature debates restricting attorney fees in insurance litigation involving assignment-of-benefits agreements, a tort-reform group has identified a way to circumvent that fix. Attorneys could convince policyholders to file suit in their own name. A report, “Restoring Balance in Insurance Litigation,” released Monday by the Florida Justice Reform Institute, discusses that possibility in the […]