Officials at Florida’s property insurer of last resort say that it is entering the 2013 hurricane season in improved financial condition thanks in part to various private insurer policy takeouts. Those takeouts have also nearly cut in half the potential …
Florida’s state-backed property insurer announced that it has reduced the size of any possible emergency assessments on policyholders due to its depopulation efforts and by transferring part of its risk to private capital markets. Citizens Property Insurance Corp. said that …
Lawmakers in the Florida Senate have taken steps to return the state-backed insurer Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to its original purpose of being a market of last resort by requiring it to charge actuarially sound rates and restrict the number …
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 …
Florida lawmakers’ first draft of a property reform emphasizes depopulating and diverting policies from Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-backed property insurer that has 1.3 million policyholders. The proposal also seeks to reduce the financial responsibility of the state’s catastrophe …
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 …
Florida regulators are working on a report that is expected to layout the financial status, claims handling and other administrative workings of the state’s 1.4 million policyholder-backed property insurer. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty, in response to an inquiry by …
Officials at the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. say nearly 150,000 of its policyholders were assumed by five smaller insurers in October as the state-backed Citizens’ continues to shed policies in its downsizing efforts. Another 25,000 Citizens’ policy holders rejected the …
Florida regulators announced that two property insurance companies have been approved to take out up to 100,000 policies from the state-backed insurer in December, adding to the 210,000 policies already slated for removal in November. State regulators also approved the …
It’s been years since a major hurricane has hit Florida, and the good news for Floridians is that property insurers are filing applications to write policies in the state again. But there’s a plan being hatched by the board of …
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