State Legislator of the Year Awards

NAMIC President and CEO Chuck Chamness announced Florida state Rep. Don Brown and Minnesota state Sen. Linda Scheid as the association’s State Legislators of the Year at NAMIC’s Annual Convention, held in Grapevine, Texas. Brown and Scheid were recognized for their outstanding efforts regarding insurance legislation in their states.

“Representative Don Brown has been the voice of reason in the overheated Florida insurance climate since the 2006 session, when he led the charge to pass legislation requiring Citizens Property Insurance Corporation rates to reflect the cost of reinsurance,” Chamness said. “Throughout his tenure, Representative Brown has been firmly committed to maximizing free-market and private-sector solutions to hurricane risk.”

About Scheid, Chamness said, “Senator Scheid believed that passage of the bad faith bill would have had a severe impact on the state’s litigation environment and would negatively affect insurance markets and the state’s overall economy. Senator Scheid did everything possible, against the wishes of her party leadership, to ensure defeat of this onerous proposal, both in her committee and when brought back on the Senate floor, where it died on the last day of the session.”

Posted: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 12:00:00 AM. Modified: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 1:55:15 PM.

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