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Insolvent Insurers; Provides required factors to be used in determination & fixing of rates for premiums paid to insolvent insurers for specified coverages; authorizes insurers to elect not to recoup advance assessments paid to Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated; provides calculations of insurers' assets under specified circumstances; revises provisions relating to payments of assessments & insurers' reconciliation reports to association; requires insurers to pay assessments to association, rather than to collect such assessments; specifies payments that certain insurers must make to association; requires insurers to treat insureds' failure to pay surcharges, rather than recoupment charges, as failure to pay premiums; provides that insurers are liable for surcharges & are not liable for uncollectible surcharges; removes requirement that insurers treat insureds' failure to pay emergency assessments as failure to pay premiums; revises provisions relating to insurers' collection of surcharges & payments of assessments to Florida Workers' Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated.