Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida Heads for Smallest Orange Crop in Nearly a Century
Jan 15 2026 // Florida’s orange harvest is expected to fall to the lowest in nearly a century, as shrinking groves continue to offset improvements in yields. The state is seen producing 12 million boxes of fruit in the 2025-26...
Florida Lawmakers Ready for Another Shot at Litigation Funding Limits
Jan 13 2026 // Florida property/casualty insurance leaders have said they are not expecting big changes from the legislature’s 2026 regular session that begins today, given the much-touted impact that 2022 reforms have already had...
Google, AI Firm Settle Florida Mother’s Lawsuit Over Son’s Suicide
Jan 8 2026 // Alphabet’s Google and artificial-intelligence startup Character.AI have agreed to settle a lawsuit from a Florida woman who alleged a Character chatbot led to the suicide of her 14-year-old son, according to a Jan. 7...
Florida Insurance Agency VP Sentenced to 3 Years in Massive ACA Fraud Scheme
Jan 8 2026 // A federal judge sentenced a Pembroke Pines insurance broker to almost three years in prison and millions of dollars in restitution for leading a scheme that fraudulently enrolled thousands of people—many of them...
Relief But Questions on Agents’ Duties to Insureds After Florida Court Ruling
Jan 7 2026 // Florida insurance agents and brokers can breathe at least a little easier after a state appeals court effectively reversed hefty damages in a case that had threatened to expand agents’ duties to insureds as well as...
FBI Involved After Two Florida Injury Lawyers Go Missing From Fishing Trip
Dec 29 2025 // Two south Florida injury attorneys, one a former insurance defense counsel, were still missing Monday after their fishing boat was found southwest of Naples with the engine still running. The FBI has joined the...
Florida’s City National Bank Partnering With NSI to Offer Insurance Products
Dec 24 2025 // Miami-based City National Bank of Florida, known as Florida’s second-largest bank, has stepped into the property insurance market, offering coverage options at loan closings through a partnership with NSI Insurance...
Senators Launch Probe Into Demotech’s Ratings in Florida
Dec 23 2025 // Three US senators opened an inquiry into insurance ratings firm Demotech and whether its assessments may be exposing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — and ultimately taxpayers — to growing risks tied to climate-driven...
NSI Insurance Acquires Florida-Based Mutual Insurance Group
Dec 16 2025 // Miami-based NSI Insurance Group has acquired another Miami-headquartered brokerage, Mutual Insurance Group, adding another milestone for the company that has doubled in size in recent years. “We are pleased to...
Florida House Panel Passes Bill Requiring Human Touch on Claims Denials
Dec 11 2025 // A Florida House subcommittee this week approved a bill that would mandate human involvement in property insurance claims denials, a sign of the times as insurers employ more artificial intelligence on multiple...
Florida Jury Returns $779M Verdict for Family of Security Guard Killed at Gambling Cafe
Dec 11 2025 // A Gadsden County, Florida, jury awarded $779 million, believed to be a record for the county near Tallahassee, to the family of a security guard who was killed at what was called an illegal internet gambling café in...
After Years of Pushing Rate Hikes, Florida’s Citizens Now Wants HO Rate Decrease
Dec 11 2025 // After years of asking for rate increases to help drive consumers to the private market and reduce its exposure, Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is now asking for a rare decrease in homeowners’...
Update: Florida OIR to Host its Insurance Summit April 15-16
Dec 10 2025 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation will host its own insurance summit in April, calling it a chance to hear from industry professionals and regulators, Insurance Commissioner Michael Yaworsky announced this...
CSMV Underwriting Launches in Florida: Part Brokerage, Part Program Manager
Dec 9 2025 // After seeing some of the frustration that insurance agents run into, the head of a well-known south Florida agency has launched a hybrid vehicle – part brokerage and part program manager. CSMV Underwriting Managers,...
Florida Republicans Urge Trump to Back Off Offshore Drilling
Dec 8 2025 // Florida’s Republican-dominated congressional delegation is urging the Trump administration to drop a plan that would allow new oil drilling for the first time in decades off the state’s coast. A letter signed...
‘Dream Is in Sight:’ Chamber, Reinsurers, Insurers Urge Florida to Stay the Course
Dec 5 2025 // The message from the Florida Chamber of Commerce Insurance Summit was loud and clear: Don’t mess with legislative changes that have all but restored the state’s property insurance market. And while you’re...
Surveys Show Concerns About Florida Market, But Consumers Are Warming Up
Dec 4 2025 // New surveys of Florida homeowners show continued concerns about property insurance, premiums and hurricanes, but policyholders seem to be breathing a little easier in recent months. A poll by Florida Atlantic University...
Florida, East Coast to See Big Insured Losses From More Cat 5 Storms, Researchers Say
Dec 2 2025 // The just-ended 2025 Atlantic hurricane season surprised some forecasters after it produced no major storms that hit the United States. But the hurricanes that did arise, with most remaining offshore and one slamming...
Old Republic Upheld in Asset Transfer of Bankrupt Florida Title Insurer Subsidiary
Nov 26 2025 // Old Republic National Title Insurance Co., one of the largest title insurers in Florida, did not fraudulently transfer assets from a bankrupt subsidiary, and the bankruptcy court did not err in excluding an expert’s...
Businessman, Former Federal Insurance Co. Attorney Hit With $50M Florida Verdict
Nov 25 2025 // In a lawsuit begun more than a decade ago and which led to counter-suits, appeals to the Florida Supreme Court and attention from national tort-reform groups, a Palm Beach County jury has awarded more than $50 million to...
