Opponents of the healthcare-reform law are expending huge amounts of rhetorical energy bad-mouthing the legislation, and various means of repealing it are pushing forward—even as the rolling-out of the bill continues apace.

The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has approved an average rate hike of 18.8 percent for Florida homeowners covered by State Farm.

A panel of the House Financial Services Committee late Wednesday passed legislation that would keep the National Flood Insurance Program in operation until Sept. 2016.

Florida’s property insurance reform bill SB 408 received approval on April 5 from its final Senate committee. In its wake came a frenzy of negative media coverage.