H0799: Property Insurance

Legislative Summary

Requires residential property insurance rate filings to account for windstorm mitigation measures undertaken by policyholders; requires wind uplift prevention to be included in windstorm damage mitigation techniques for residential property insurance rate filings; revises rate change limitations for specified policies written by Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; revises applicability of flood coverage requirements for personal lines residential policyholders of corporation; authorizes corporation to adopt policy forms that provide for resolution of certain disputes in proceedings before Division of Administrative Hearings; provides that such policies are not subject to mandatory binding arbitration provisions; prohibiting a property insurer that requires flood coverage as a condition for wind coverage from denying certain claims except under certain circumstances; requires wind-loss mitigation study conducted by OIR.