A House Republican is driving forward with plans to replace the state's “no-fault” auto insurance coverage, two years after lawmakers passed reforms to try to rid the system of fraud.

However, the proposal continues to be reviewed in a “deliberative and thoughtful manner” in the Senate as a number of insurance officials have tempered their call for a change after a constitutional challenge to the 2012 reform law was recently sidetracked.

Rep. Carlos Trujillo, R-Miami, on Tuesday filed two measures (HB 267 and HB 269) directed at making bodily injury coverage, which a vast majority of motorists in Florida already purchase, the replacement for no-fault.

Read the entire story in Florida's Sun Sentinel from Jim Turner of the News Service of Florida HERE.

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