NCCI and FLOIR Argue No Sunshine Laws Broken

Whether Florida regulators colluded with its licensed rating organization to hold secret, unlawful meetings in arriving at a rate increase appears to hinge on the definition of the word “committee.” The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation and the National Council on Compensation Insurance have filed their initial briefs on the merits in their appeal against a lawsuit brought and won in trial court by Miami claimants’ attorney James F. Fee Jr. Fee sued NCCI, FLOIR and Commissioner David Altmaier, saying that, as the owner of a law firm who had to buy workers’ compen...