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Lawmakers moved closer to restoring mandatory personal injury protection insurance for Florida drivers.� The Senate Banking and Finance committed approved a bill to revive PIP on February 15th of next year.� The bill contains measures to fight insurance fraud, like staged car accidents and artificially high medical bills.� But until PIP returns, lawmakers caution that lawsuits will likely settle accidents to determine who was to blame.

�The insurance companies still want this to go away,” said Sen. Bill Posey.� “They tried valiantly, up until the end, to kill this bill.� Some of the trial lawyers still want this dead.� They tried very hard to kill this bill.�

A House committee was scheduled to take up PIP on Thursday afternoon.� After that, the issue will head to a floor vote in that chamber.