Regulators have ordered the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to revamp — and trim — proposed rate increases. Florida Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky signed an order Friday that took issue with parts of a Citizens rate proposal that included increasing rates by 12 percent for…
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A federal appeals court this week will hear arguments in a fight about a 2022 Florida law that placed restrictions on how race-related issues can be addressed in workplace training — part of what Gov. Ron DeSantis dubbed the “Stop WOKE Act.” Attorneys for the…
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In what would be Florida’s sixth execution this year, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a death warrant for an inmate convicted in the 1996 murder of a woman he met in an Escambia County bar. Michael Duane Zack, 54, is scheduled to die by…
Read More Florida Death Row Inmate Michael Duane Zack To Be 6th Inmate Executed In 2023
A federal judge Thursday refused to block a new Florida law that restricts people from China from owning property in the state, saying plaintiffs are unlikely to be able to show the measure was motivated by discrimination or lacks a “rational basis.” U.S. District Judge…
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For the second time in less than a year, a Central Florida federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a 2022 state law that restricts instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation in schools. U.S. District Judge Wendy Berger on Wednesday issued a 37-page ruling…
Read More Judge Tosses Out Challenge To Florida Education Law
A sharply divided appeals court Wednesday rejected workers’ compensation insurance benefits for a general manager of an Orlando rental-car agency who was shot seven times while on the job. A panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, in a 2-1 decision, said Mohammed Bouayad…
Read More Benefits Rejected For Manager Of Orlando Rental Car Agency Who Was Shot On The Job
After a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year on Second Amendment rights, the Florida Supreme Court could decide whether to uphold a state law barring possession of guns by convicted felons. An attorney for convicted felon William Edenfield on Tuesday asked the Florida Supreme…
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Florida health regulators Monday ordered an Orlando abortion clinic to pay a $193,000 fine for violating a law that requires women to wait 24 hours before having abortions, nearly three times the fine recommended by an administrative law judge. The state Agency for Health Care…
Read More State Of Florida Hits Orlando Abortion Clinic With $193K Fine
Arguing that parts of the law violate the First Amendment, the Biden administration Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to take up a challenge to a 2021 Florida law that placed restrictions on major social-media companies. U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar and other Department of…
Read More Biden Admin Backs Blocking Parts Of Florida ‘Big Tech’ Law
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody’s office quickly launched an appeal after a federal judge last week blocked part of a 2018 state constitutional amendment that imposed new lobbying restrictions. Lawyers in Moody’s office filed a notice Friday that was a first step in appealing the…
Read More Florida AG Ashley Moody Appeals Lobbying Decision