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• Artiles asks for top-to-bottom probe of Citizens Insurance

  A Miami lawmaker is putting more pressure on Citizens Property Insurance, asking the state insurance regulator to conduct a top-to-bottom probe of the company’s business practices.

  Rep. Frank Artiles, R-Miami, wrote a letter to Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty on Friday, calling for a “Market Conduct Examination” on Citizens.

  Such an examination would look at nearly every aspect [...]

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• Christian Slater's provisional ballot rejected by Miami-Dade

  Actor Christian Slater waited hours in line to vote in Miami-Dade on Election Day -- only to learn his vote didn't count.

  Slater on Friday posted a picture on Twitter of his Nov. 26 letter from Miami-Dade County's canvassing board, which addressed him as "Christina Slater," the website [...]

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• Critics: Gov. Rick Scott's ALF task force lets industry off hook

   Gov. Rick Scott used tough language in the summer of 2011 when he created a panel to help fix the deadly abuse and neglect in Florida assisted living facilities.
  
  He pledged to provide protections for elderly and disabled ALF residents, who in recent years saw sweeping breakdowns of care [...]
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• Scott says Citizens Property Insurance needs to shrink rolls, eliminate waste

  Citizens Property Insurance is too often the "insurance company of first resort," Gov. Rick Scott said, when it was intended to be an insurer of last-resort. Because of this issue and the threat that a major storm will put both Citizens policyholders and all Floridians on the hook for covering [...]

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• FEMA to Scott: Sorry, no aid money for Sandy

  For the second time in recent months, the federal government has rejected Gov. Rick Scott’s request for aid after a major hurricane mostly bypassed the state.

  The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator, Craig Fugate, sent Scott a letter this week saying that Hurricane Sandy’s impact on Florida was not large enough to require federal intervention.

  “Based [...]

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• PolitiFact Florida: Measuring Rick Scott's progress on campaign promises

  PolitiFact Florida has returned to the work of analyzing the campaign promises of Gov. Rick Scott as he approaches his third year in office.

  We're tracking 57 promises on the Scott-O-Meter, where each pledge receives a rating of Promise Kept, Promise Broken, Compromise, Stalled or In The Works. (We have also been updating our [...]

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• Court blocks release of 'salacious' report in Jim Greer case

  Floridians will have to wait a little longer for details of that golf cart full of prostitutes.

  The Fifth District Court of Appeal on Friday ruled in favor of anonymous petitioners who want to block the release of investigative reports about a gathering in the Bahamas sponsored by the Republican Party [...]

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