2024

Business & Insurance

• Advocated against legislation to expand tort liability against sovereign entities, including public hospitals and healthcare entities, transit agencies and local governments.
• Successfully advocated for modernizing consumer finance lending laws, increasing greater access to credit for over 3 million Floridians, and making Florida competitive with 42 other states.
• Stopped legislation that attempted to regulate out-of-state lenders and would have brought the state of Florida into litigation.
• Opposed efforts to restrict the ability of insurance companies to make market-based decisions on policy renewals and cancellations.
• Helped successfully advocate for in-store servicing on behalf of Florida craft spirit manufacturers.
• Defeated attempts to increase charges on behalf of towing companies to auto insurance carriers and consumers.
• Successfully advocated for mutual aid agreement provisions for rural electric cooperatives.
• Halted controversial definitional changes that increase medical malpractice insurance costs for OB/GYN doctors.
• Stopped legislation that expanded the number of people who can file wrongful death litigation in medical malpractice suits.
• Foiled efforts to increase regulatory reporting requirements, excessive red tape, and costs for property insurers.
• Began dialogue for the re-institution of non-economic caps on medical malpractice lawsuits.

Healthcare

• Opposed efforts to institute drug pricing controls based on foreign socialized medical coverage.
• Advocated for new allocated funding for increased cancer research from the alcoholic beverage trust fund.
• Successfully advocated for the increased ability of academic medical centers to recruit leading physicians from around the globe to provide clinical care to Floridians.  

 Appropriations

• Secured over $127.5 million in healthcare research funding for Florida’s academic cancer centers.
• Supported efforts to increase reimbursement for Florida hospitals providing care to pregnant moms and babies – $134.6 million increase.
• Advocated for an increase of over $50 million for graduate medical education funding.
• Helped secure $10 million to expand the network of emergency mobile stroke units.
• Successfully helped in funding for improvements for local government infrastructure.
• Advocated for recurring funding of brain cancer-related research, mental health, maternal and fetal care, and senior care monitoring.
• Secured over $4 million for invasive species removal.
• Obtained $1.45 million for the connection of a legacy, historically Black communitiesto local sewer and water utilities.

2023

General

• Successfully advocated against a measure that would recalculate timeshare valuations, resulting in losses for local government education funding.
• Updated statutes to allow for the use of emergency blue lights on emergency management vehicles.
• Successfully promoted the modernization of qualifications for County Emergency Management Directors.
• Initiated debate for the need of protections from excessive product liability lawsuits for agricultural employers, distributors, dealers, or applicators of pesticides, who sell or use products in accordance with state and federal standards.

General

• Successfully advocated for a comprehensive tort reform package to curb predatory litigation abuse that harms Florida businesses and consumers. The package included provisions on transparency in damages, third-party bad faith, and comparative negligence.
• Lobbied for narrowing data privacy legislation to help protect Florida businesses, saving them billions in increased expenses and exposure to abusive litigation.

Business & Insurance

• Advocated against legislation to expand tort liability against sovereign entities, including public hospitals and healthcare entities, transit agencies and local governments.
• Successfully advocated for legislation to decrease regulatory licensing fees for craft beverage manufacturers, allowing for more freedom and innovation in the industry.
• Lobbied for modernization of outdated insurance regulations and increased credits for mitigation.
• Successfully advocated for modernizing Consumer Finance lending laws, increasing greater access to credit for Floridians, and making Florida competitive with 42 other states.

Healthcare

• Lobbied for legislation that will decrease costs for prescription drugs and the pharmaceutical industry, improving Floridians’ access to health care.
• Successfully advocated for increased criminal penalties for assault and battery on hospital personnel.
• Opposed efforts to transition medical records to be “property of the patient and not the provider.”

Appropriations

• Lobbied for increased funding of Florida’s leading academic medical center, including an increase of the base funding to establish National Excellence Initiatives to develop an extensive artificial intelligence program for use in healthcare initiatives.
• Secured over $100 million in healthcare research funding for Florida’s academic cancer centers.
• Advocated for recurring funding of brain cancer-related research, mental health, and senior care monitoring.
• Advocated for an increase of $76 million in total recurring funding for hospitals serving children with severe medical conditions.
• Successfully lobbied for an increase of $93 million for graduate medical education.
• Secured over $2 million in funding for local government water quality improvements and an increase of over $4 million for invasive species removal.

2022

General

• Advocated against legislation to expand tort liability against sovereign entities, including public hospitals and healthcare entities, transit agencies and local governments.
• Lobbied against data privacy legislation that would have cost Florida businesses billions and exposed businesses to abusive litigation.

Appropriations

• Successfully secured an increase of over $30 million in healthcare research funding for Florida’s three academic cancer centers.
• Lobbied for increased funding of Florida’s leading academic medical center.
• Advocated for recurring funding of brain cancer-related research.
• Successfully secured almost $1 million in funding for local government water quality improvements and invasive species removal.
• Helped secure more than $150 million in recurring funding for Florida’s child welfare Community Based Care lead agencies.

Business & Insurance

• Successfully advocated for legislation giving consumer finance lenders financial instrument alternatives for liquidity requirements and limiting the required capital necessary to obtain a lending license in Florida.
• Advocated for legislation to decrease regulatory burdens on craft beverage manufacturers.
• Lobbied for modernization of outdated insurance regulations and increased credits for mitigation.
• Defended against legislation that would have increased costs for prescription drugs and the pharmaceutical industry.

Healthcare

• Advocated for extended legislation to protect hospitals, doctors and other health care providers from meritless COVID-19 liability claims.
• Opposed legislation that sought to have increase the exposure for healthcare providers through additional lawsuits and money damages.

2021

General

• Successfully opposed legislation that would have jeopardized the water, wastewater and surface water in portions of Broward County.
• Advocated against legislation to expand tort liability against sovereign entities, including public hospitals and healthcare entities, transit agencies and local governments.
• Opposed legislation that would have increased regulatory burdens on manufacturers of alcoholic beverages.
• Advocated for decreased restrictions to allow government entities to utilize private providers to more quickly advance their public projects.
• Lobbied against data privacy legislation that would have cost Florida businesses billions and exposed businesses to abusive litigation.

Appropriations

• Protected more than $300 million in funding for Florida’s hospitals that provide critical care to vulnerable populations.
• Successfully secured more than $62 million in healthcare funding for Florida’s three academic cancer centers.
• Defended funding of Florida’s leading academic medical center.
• Advocated for recurring funding of brain-related research.
• Participated in a successful effort to secure funding for affordable housing.
• Joined voices with other advocacy groups to successfully advocate for substantial funding to protect Florida’s environment.

Business & Insurance

• Successfully advocated for decreased regulation on Florida’s craft distilleries.
• Advocated for legislation that protects Florida’s businesses from meritless COVID-19 related plaintiff’s claims.
• Urged legislation to establish a claims filing deadline for all property insurance claims.
• Pursued legislation that successfully eliminated and reformed one-way first-party attorney fees in property insurance claims.
• Advanced legislation related to named driver exclusions for car insurance.

Healthcare

• Helped prevent adverse legislation affecting the health insurance program insuring state employees.
• Advocated against onerous legislation governing the merger and acquisition of healthcare practices and facilities.
• Helped defeat legislation designed to ban for-profit companies from operating in the organ tissue procurement process.
• Opposed legislation that would have increased the exposure for lawsuits and money damages against healthcare providers.
• Advocated against harmful legislation that would have usurped local control of a hospital district and eliminated funds for indigent care.
• Advocated for legislation pertaining to the consent for pelvic examinations.
• Opposed and prevented attempts by the Florida trial bar attorneys to eliminate Florida Birth-related Neurological Injury Compensation Plan.
• Advocated for legislation protecting hospitals, doctors and other health care providers from meritless COVID-19 liability claims.
• Successfully led an effort to protect legitimate medical research using human DNA at Florida’s academic medical centers.

2020

General

• Successfully opposed legislation that would have jeopardized Florida business, healthcare, and insurance trade secret proprietary information in the hands of the government.
• Helped prevent legislation that would have jeopardized the water, wastewater and surface water in portions of Broward County.
• Opposed legislation that would have prevented much-needed transportation improvements in Osceola County.
• Urged legislation that will expand the appellate jurisdiction of district courts of appeal while curtailing the appellate jurisdiction of circuit courts.
• Opposed legislation to expand tort liability against sovereign entities, including public hospitals and healthcare entities, transit agencies and local governments.
• Worked against legislation that would have increased regulatory burdens on manufacturers of alcoholic beverages.
• Advocated for legislation to minimize or eliminate unnecessary regulation of certain amusement rides.

Appropriations

• Protected more than $300 million in funding for Florida’s hospitals that provide critical care to vulnerable populations.
• Helped secure and protect more than $62 million in healthcare funding for Florida’s three academic cancer centers.
• Successfully extended the length of time for four years for one of Florida’s leading academic medical centers can participate in a state-supported cancer research grant program.
• Helped secure $2.15 million for a Florida man wrongfully incarcerated for 43 years.

Insurance

• Helped defeat an effort by trial lawyers to expand coverage, claims and lawsuits for sinkholes against property insurance companies.
• Supported legislation that will allow insurance companies to use electronic signatures for automobile total losses.
• Supported legislation that will clarify the auto, homeowners and liability insurance “deemer” dates (deadlines) for rate and forms filings by insurance companies to be approved by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.
• Clarified the application of assessment coverage between a unit owner’s insurance policy and the condo master insurance policy.
• Urged legislation that requires insurance companies to designate an email address for delivery of pre-suit notices and mandates that the state forward these notices to the email.
• Helped create protection for insurance company trade secret information, even if that information is contained in aggregate information released by the state.

Healthcare

• Advocated against adverse legislation affecting the health insurance program insuring state employees.
• Helped prevent onerous legislation governing the merger and acquisition of healthcare practices and facilities.
• Opposed legislation designed to interfere with private contracts between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare payers.
• Lobbied against legislation designed to ban for-profit companies from operating in the organ tissue procurement process.
• Supported an amendment to Florida law to allow for legitimate referral agreements and activities by healthcare providers.
• Advocated against an effort by certain hospitals to raid the low-income pool payments of other hospitals using the regional perinatal intensive care center network.
• Helped ensure that certain physician specialty practices were not included in the healthcare legislation allowing independent practice for nurse practitioners in Florida.

2019

General

• Successfully opposed legislation that would jeopardize Florida business, healthcare, and insurance trade secret proprietary information in the hands of the government.
• Advocated against legislation that would have jeopardized the water, wastewater and surface water in portions of Broward County.
• Opposed legislation that would have prevented much-needed transportation improvements in Osceola County.

Appropriations

• Helped protect more than $300 million in funding for Florida’s hospitals that provide critical care to vulnerable populations.
• Worked to secure and protect more than $62 million in healthcare funding for Florida’s three academic cancer centers.

Insurance

• Advocated for legislation that reforms Florida’s property insurance laws relating to assignment of post-loss benefits and entitlement to attorney’s fees by third-party assignees.
• Urged legislation that reforms the assessment base for insolvencies attributed to long-term care insurance policies.
• Helped pass legislation related to the placement of property insurance risks in the non-admitted market without meaningless regulatory hurdles.
• Opposed legislation prohibiting the use of genetic information in the medical records during the rating and underwriting of life insurance.

Healthcare

• Opposed legislation that would have increased the exposure for lawsuits and money damages against healthcare providers.
• Helped stop adverse legislation affecting the health insurance program insuring state employees.
• Advocated against onerous legislation governing the merger and acquisition of healthcare practices and facilities.