No. SB 1716
Filed under Insurance.
Dispute Resolutions Involving Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Deleting provisions relating to the authorization of dispute resolution of claim determinations in proceedings before the Division of Administrative Hearings, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe corporation loses its authority to adopt policy forms that route disputes over a claim's coverage, scope, or value to a proceeding before the Division of Administrative Hearings.
Losing that authority also erases the special rules that went with it: fee-shifting exposure under sections 57.105 and 768.79, modified offer-of-judgment timing, and a ban on the office approving a maximum attorney-fee rate.
The corporation's separate authority to contract with the Division to run these proceedings is also repealed, a provision that was otherwise set to expire on its own on July 1, 2026.
Because this act takes effect as soon as it becomes law, it could end that contracting authority earlier than the existing July 1, 2026 expiration date would have.
AIThe corporation may no longer adopt policy forms that route disputes over a claim's coverage, or its scope and value, to a proceeding before the Division of Administrative Hearings; the entire paragraph authorizing that option is deleted.
AIWith the option itself gone, so is the rule that subjected those proceedings to the fee-shifting and sanctions statutes as if filed in court, the modified offer-of-judgment timing, and the ban on the office approving a maximum hourly attorney-fee rate.
AIThe corporation's separate authority to contract with the Division of Administrative Hearings to conduct these proceedings is deleted outright, rather than left to expire on its own scheduled date.