According to the article “Florida Senate Panel Advances Auto Insurance Bills” by Brent Kallestad on Business Week’s website, two Florida bills aimed at cutting down the amount of fraud running rampant through Florida moved passed an important Senate panel. The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee barely approved the bills after some debate between lawmakers.
Legislature is trying to get a handle of the amount of auto insurance fraud that is frustrating insurers enormously. The bills move forward after being backed by the insurance industry which would give them more power to deny claims they deem suspicious for fraud. A similar bill is moving through the Senate as well. Florida