Standard P/L Advisory Committee to Meet Friday in Tallahassee, Fla.

The Standard Personal Lines Advisory Committee will hold its next meeting Friday, Oct. 28, at the Capitol in Tallahassee, Fla. The committee will meet in Room 110 of the Senate Office Building from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

State lawmakers called for the committee in response to Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher’s concern that many victims of the 2004 hurricanes were not adequately protected because they either did not understand the complex language in their insurance policies or had not updated their policy limits to keep pace with increasing property values. The committee is tasked with developing proposals to simplify howmeowners policies and forwarding the recommendations to legislative leaders in January.

The Standard Personal Lines Advisory Committee is chaired by Rick Mahler, deputy chief of staff, Department of Financial Services.

Members are: Joel P. Curran, Towerhill, Insurance Group, chief underwriting officer and senior manager; Jim Graganella, Capital Preferred & Southern Fidelity Insurance Companies, president and CEO; Hector Fortun, Fortun Insurance; Bruce A. Baker, USI Insurance Services of Florida Inc.; Rick Suarez, Miami, Florida, proprietor of Ready Windows; Arnold Whisenant, Jacksonville, Florida, retired; Dr. Elizabeth Beard Goldsmith, Florida State University, professor, National Association of Insurance Commissioner’s Consumer Representative; Richard C. Koon, Office of Insurance Regulation, senior management analyst, director policy forms; and Steve Burgess, Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate.

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