special session

Typically, a special legislative session focuses on just one—maybe two—subjects. This time, lawmakers are tacking a full slate of issues.

The Florida Senate has approved sweeping legislation that would overhaul the state’s property insurance system, which has struggled due to insolvencies, high costs and major storms.

The proposal would create a $1 billion reinsurance fund. Lawmakers will also consider property tax relief for Hurricane Ian victims and highway toll reductions for frequent commuters.

Florida lawmakers will take up a massive property insurance bill that would create a $1 billion reinsurance fund, seek to reduce insurance lawsuits and force more people out of the state-created insurer of last resort.

Next week, Florida lawmakers will try to fix the state's broken property insurance market outside the regular 60-day legislative session for the second time this year.

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Governor Ron DeSantis signs condo reform legislation. The forecast for the upcoming hurricane season. Plus, we're talking with a botany professor about a rare and beautiful plant that grows in South Florida – the Cigar Orchid.

Governor Ron DeSantis signs condo reform legislation. The forecast for the upcoming hurricane season. Plus, we're talking with a botany professor about a rare and beautiful plant that grows in South Florida – the Cigar Orchid.

The state legislature has added condo building reform to this week’s special session on property insurance. Lawmakers faced pressure to overhaul current laws after a deadly building collapse in South Florida last year, but the two chambers failed to reach a compromise during the regular legislative session.

Florida lawmakers began moving forward Monday with a plan to try to bolster the state’s troubled property-insurance market, but homeowners shouldn’t expect immediate relief from soaring premiums.

We look at the ongoing property insurance crisis in Florida and what lawmakers are trying to do to fix it. How the national baby formula is affecting families in South Florida. And an intentional shipwreck that’s helping coral reefs thrive.

Gov. Ron DeSantis expressed confidence that a special legislative session will help stabilize Florida’s property insurance system, but the troubled market is taking another blow as a group of companies is poised to cancel more than 68,000 policies.