The Florida Senate

HB 983: Medical Malpractice Insurance

GENERAL BILL by Kreegel ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Harrell ; Murzin ; Porth

Medical Malpractice Insurance; deletes provision requiring certain medical malpractice insurance policies to include provision authorizing insurers or self insurers to take certain actions re admissions of liability, settlement offers, or offers of judgment without permission of insured; deletes public policy statement; deletes requirement that such actions be made in good faith & in best interests of insured. Amends 627.4147.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  2/22/2005	House	• Filed
  3/7/2005	House	• Referred to Judiciary (JC); Insurance (CC); Justice Council
  3/8/2005	House	• Introduced, referred to Judiciary (JC); Insurance (CC); Justice Council -HJ 00087
  3/21/2005	House	• On Committee agenda-- Judiciary (JC), 03/23/05, 10:15 am, Morris Hall
  3/23/2005	House	• Favorable by Judiciary (JC); YEAS 11 NAYS 0 -HJ 00267; Now in Insurance (CC) -HJ 00267
  5/6/2005	House	• Died in Committee on Insurance (CC)

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• HB 983, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 2/22/2005 at 9:02 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Judiciary Committee (Post-Meeting) (pdf) Judiciary Committee (Post-Meeting) (pdf)

  Related Bills (1)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  S 1692	Medical Tort Reform	Baker	Compare	Last Action: 5/6/2005 S Died in Committee on Health Care Location:

  Citations - Statutes (1)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  627.4147	Medical malpractice insurance contracts.

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