Florida’s personal injury protection (“PIP”) statute, Florida Statute § 627.736, requires Florida insureds to maintain at least $10,000 in “no fault” coverage for automobile accidents and compels insurers to pay 80% of all reasonable, related, and necessary medical expenses.  However, subsection (10) of the PIP statute creates an alternative to standard PIP coverage options. 

Despite warnings from the Bush Administration, as reported here that it would not support any legislation expanding the National Flood Insurance Program (“NFIP”) to include windstorm coverage, the House Financial Services Committee approved the Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2007 (H.R. 3121), which contains just such an amendment to the NFIP. 

On July 27, 2007, the Securities and Exchange Commission posted two separate proposing releases that relate to shareholder access to a public company’s proxy ballot in connection with director elections.  The unusual aspect of these releases is that they represent alternative and very different approaches to the same issue.