April 3, 2013
A Florida Senate committee unanimously confirmed Barry Gilway’s appointment as president of the state-backed insurer Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The rare legislative oversight of the Citizens leadership appointment came almost 10 months after the board of Citizens hired Gilway to …
February 14, 2013
Florida’s state-backed property insurer has approved a plan to shift 31,000 commercial wind-only policies to a new private insurer. The board of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. approved the plan earlier this week. Newly-licensed Weston Insurance Co. will be permitted to …
January 18, 2013
A review by Florida’s chief inspector general contends that employees at the state-created Citizens Property Insurance racked up excessive travel expenses over an eight-month period. Florida Gov. Rick Scott ordered a review of expenses at the insurer following a report …
December 14, 2012
Officials of Florida’s policyholder-back insurer have decided not to pursue a plan to loan private insurers part of its surplus in exchange for removing policies citing the fact that as currently envisioned no insurers would step forward and participate in …
October 24, 2012
In the face of criticism, the top executive of Florida’s state-backed property insurer acknowledge his decision to close the insurer’s office in charge of corporate oversight before having its replacement in place was ill-advised. Citizens Property Insurance Corp. executives recently …
September 13, 2012
Two months ago when Barry Gilway took over as president of Florida’s state-run property insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., he quickly learned there would be no honeymoon period. He was thrust into debates over rates, mitigation credits, rolled-back coverage, depopulation …
September 5, 2012
A Florida state senator is demanding that executives of the state-backed property insurer be questioned after expense reports showed that they spent thousands of dollars on travel and related expenses. Florida Senator Mike Fasano (D-New Port Richey) sent a letter …
July 18, 2012
Executives and the board of governors of Florida’s largest state-back property insurer received a rude reception at a public rate hearing in Miami where they indicated they will consider increasing rates on existing homeowners policies by a statewide average 7.4 …
July 17, 2012
Maintaining there is no disagreement on the objectives of Florida’s state-backed property insurer, Citizens Property and Insurance Corp. President Barry Gilway says he hopes the insurer will reduce its policyholder rolls by 500,000 over the next three years while moving closer …
July 16, 2012
The new president of the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. meets with the insurer’s governing board for the first time, looking for consensus on finalizing the insurer’s rate request for next year. Citizens’ governing board holds a rate workshop Monday …