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Media Advisory -- Press Availability About the Office’s Disposition of State Farm Florida’s Filing to Eliminate and Modify Policyholder Discounts

 
Thursday, August 06, 2009
 
The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (Office) will have representatives available to answer questions about the Office’s review and disposition of State Farm Florida’s filing to eliminate and modify the discounts it offers its policyholders.
 
WHO:                 Steve Parton, General Counsel
                               Belinda Miller, Deputy Insurance
                               Commissioner for Property and Casualty
 
WHAT:             State Farm Florida requested the Office to consider
                               the elimination and modification of various
                               discounts in its rating plan. Those discounts
                               not required by Florida law were approved for
                               elimination and the overall premium impact of
                               the approved changes to the rating plan is
                               28.4 percent.  Mitigation credits are required
                               by law and the Office is not allowing the
                               company to eliminate or reduce them.
                               According to Rule 69O-170.017, Florida
                               Administrative Code, a detailed study
                               justifying the loss mitigation discount
                               reductions is required to do so. Copies of the
                               Office’s letter to the company will be available
                               in room 116 and a link to the letter will be
                               inserted into this document on our Web site
                               after 12 noon today.                              
 
WHEN:              Thursday, Aug. 6 at 12:15 p.m.
                            

WHERE:           The Larson Building                              
                               Room 116City Center
                               200 E. Gaines Street
 
CONTACT:     Tom Zutell
                               850-413-2515
                               Tom.Zutell@floir.com
                           
For those unable to attend, a conference bridge is available by calling: 888.808.6959. Enter conference ID 4135119.
 
Please mute your phone if you will be listening on the conference line.

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