Florida Legislative Session 2021: Insurance Bills to Watch
The Florida insurance industry will be fighting for property insurance reforms in the 60-day legislative session that kicked off this week, but there are several other insurance-related bills to watch.
Read on for a breakdown of the bills being considered by Florida lawmakers in the 2021 Florida Legislative Session:
Authorizes the Insurance Consumer Advocate to collect certain information from the entities issued a certificate of authority by the Office of Insurance Regulation. Aggregate information may include information asserted as trade secret information unless the trade secret information can be individually taken out.
Establishes a Statewide Office of Resiliency with the office of the governor that is headed by a chief resilience officer. Creates a statewide sea-level rise task force adjunct to the Office of Resiliency, to recommend projections of anticipated sea level rise and flooding impacts along coastline.
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Data Project May Drive Policy for Hyperlocal Flooding in NYC
Work in New York City collects systematic data on street-level flooding, partnering with local agencies to design real-time flood sensors and an open code that other cities can build on.
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In this month’s installment of the Innovation of the Month series, we highlight a project called FloodNet.nyc: Street-level Flood Sensing and Data Sharing for Urban Resilience. As high tides and high-intensity rainstorms are projected to occur more frequently due to climate change, this team aims to monitor and record frequent, hyperlocal street-level floods in
Why New York’s Snowstorms Are Growing Along With Warming Winter Temperatures
arrow Snowman sits in a field with the skyline of New York City in the background, from a park in Jersey City, New Jersey. Seth Wenig/AP/Shutterstock
James McGowan fondly remembers ice skating every winter while growing up in Flatbush, Brooklyn. It was during the 1950s and 1960s, when his dad used to come home from work, spray down the backyard, and open the DIY rink for all the kids in the neighborhood.
“People would be out ice skating in the city as a regular after school activity,” McGowan said. Over the past several decades, he has noticed that it’s become harder and harder to skate outside in backyard rinks or the lakes peppered around the city it just hasn’t been cold enough.