Florida's Panhandle region, currently exempt from hurricane-resistant building requirements, should be required to adopt the tougher building codes required elsewhere in the state, an insurance trade group testified today.
The comments of the American Insurance Association were submitted to the Florida Building Commission.
FBC was created to administer the 1998 Florida Building Code, that was drawn up after a legislative study on the effects of Hurricane Andrew (which set a record for damage in 1992) found a pattern of widespread building code violations throughout the state leading to catastrophic structural failures.
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