Florida Senate Votes to Keep Insurers’ Fraud Reports Exempt from Open Records
Published January 21, 2022 • Insurance Journal
The 2022 Florida Senate has passed its first bill that affects insurance companies, but the measure has little to do with losses, rates or litigation costs.
On Wednesday, by a vote of 35-0, the chamber approved Senate Bill 7016, which would continue to exempt insurers’ anti-fraud plans and annual fraud reports from Florida’s strict open records laws. Insurance companies’ fraud reports, filed with the state Department of Financial Services, have long been exempt from the eyes of the public, but the exemption was due to expire in October.