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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 1551: Attorney Fee Awards in Insurance Actions

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 1551 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on February 28, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Attorney Fee Awards in Insurance Actions. Primary sponsor: Hillary Cassel (Republican). It lists 1 additional sponsor. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Judiciary Committee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Attorney Fee Awards in Insurance Actions; Requires court to award attorney fees to prevailing parties in civil actions brought against surplus lines insurers & insurers by named or omnibus insureds or named beneficiaries; provides guidelines to determine prevailing parties; provides applicability of prevailing party attorney fee provision to specified insurers, insurance policies or coverage types, & rate standards & to claims presented to specified guaranty associations.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 2

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Hillary CasselPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse101
Paula StarkCo-sponsorRepublicanHouse47

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Judiciary Committee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. Now in Judiciary Committee
  4. Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
  5. Favorable by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
  6. Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
  7. Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
  8. Reported out of Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
  9. Favorable by Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
  10. Added to Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee agenda
  11. Now in Civil Justice & Claims Subcommittee
  12. Referred to Judiciary Committee

Showing 12 most recent of 16 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source