Florida House Bill 1439

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires, rather than authorizes, parties to property insurance claims dispute to participate in mediation; provides that mediation is condition precedent to commencing litigation; removes provisions relating to eligibility of claims for mediation; provides that parties may mutually agree to conduct mediation by teleconference or by telephone; requires all insureds, or representative thereof, to personally attend mediation; revises & specifying duties as to bearing certain costs of mediation; requires, rather than authorizing, DFS to adopt certain rules; emergency rules; requires policyholder to provide insurer with certain documents within certain timeframe after mediation is invoked; revises conditions under which policyholder has certain timeframe to rescind settlement.

Resolution of Disputed Property Insurance Claims

Rep. Katherine Waldron [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-08	House	Died in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
2024-01-13	House	Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
2024-01-13	House	Referred to Commerce Committee
2024-01-13	House	Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
2024-01-13	House	Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
2024-01-09	House	1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
2024-01-06	House	Filed

S178 (Same As) 2024-03-08 - Died in Banking and Insurance

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
627	7015		Amended Code	See Bill Text
627	7074		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1439
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1439/BillText/Filed/PDF