Latest Florida Headlines
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Jury Awards $100M in Shooting Death of Former Florida State Senator’s Son
Jul 18 2025 // A Miami jury this week awarded a former Florida state senator $100 million in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against the condominium complex where her son was shot to death in 2021. Daphne Campbell, who served for eight...
Patriot Growth Adds Florida-based Legacy Insurance to the Team
Jul 17 2025 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services, a national insurance brokerage and partnership platform, has announced another team member: Florida-based Legacy Insurance Solutions. Legacy is a family-founded insurance agency with...
Florida People Rush to Help Plane Near Airport Mayor Says Is Plagued With Crashes
Jul 16 2025 // Residents in a Miami suburb used an ax, fire extinguisher and garden hose to rescue four people from a small plane that crashed into a tree in yet another mishap near a busy South Florida airport. “It was nothing...
Florida County Leads With High-Tech 911 Emergency Response System
Jul 16 2025 // NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from the scene to...
Tropical Rainstorm to Bring Flooding to Florida Peninsula and Gulf Coast
Jul 15 2025 // A tropical rainstorm is expected to bring flooding to the Florida Peninsula on Tuesday before making its way across the Gulf Coast and into Louisiana later in the week. The Florida Peninsula, coastal Alabama and...
Afore Acquires Florida’s TailoredRisk Insurance
Jul 15 2025 // Georgia-based Afore Insurance Services, LLC has acquired Naples, Florida based TailoredRisk Insurance Advisors, LLC. Afore also appointed TailoredRisk’s principal, John Paolini, to the role of executive vice...
Lawsuit Challenges Florida’s Citizens Claims Arbitration by Administrative Judges
Jul 15 2025 // A Miami homeowner is suing Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. for forcing him into arbitration over a 2024 damage claim dispute, claiming the process violates due process and equal protection...
OSHA Cites Florida Missile Manufacturer After Fire Injures Workers
Jul 15 2025 // The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) reported that it has cited an Orlando, Florida target-missile manufacturer for exposing workers to fire, burn, and inhalation hazards. Aerojet Rocketdyne was...
Tesla Goes to Trial Over Fatal Autopilot Crash in Florida
Jul 14 2025 // Tesla Inc. will stand trial over claims that the company is partly to blame for a fatal 2019 crash in Florida that occurred when the Autopilot system in a Model S allegedly failed to detect a parked SUV. Family members of...
Florida Meteorologist Predicts Where the Next Hurricane Will Hit, For a Price
Jul 14 2025 // Colorado State University’s hurricane research team, perhaps the best-known and most-often quoted forecasting service, last week revised its prediction for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season downward slightly – to...
Ken Griffin-Backed Florida Bill for Non-Competes Becomes Law
Jul 9 2025 // Florida enacted legislation allowing non-competes of up to four years, handing a victory to Citadel’s Ken Griffin, who pushed for the policy. Labor lawyers say it’s one of the most employer-friendly policies in...
Florida Reinsurance Buyers Found Ample Property Capacity at Mid-Year Renewals
Jul 8 2025 // Reinsurers have gained confidence and returned to the Florida market as a result of recent legislative reforms that have transformed the state’s risk landscape, according to brokers Aon and Gallagher Re in their...
Public Adjusters Decry Florida Citizens’ New Plan That Keeps Their Names Off Checks
Jul 7 2025 // In the long conflict between insurance carriers and public claims adjusters, Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has altered the rules of engagement in a way that could have a big impact on some...
Florida Taps Contractors With No Detention Experience for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
Jul 3 2025 // On June 20, nearly three weeks into the Atlantic hurricane season, Florida disaster-management officials assembled a group of emergency relief contractors in Tallahassee and asked them to do something they had never done...
Marsh McLennan Buys Excel Agency in South Florida
Jul 2 2025 // Marsh McLennan Agency, part of the global Marsh insurance brokerage and services companies, has acquired Excel Insurance, an insurance agency in Medley, Florida. Excel was founded in 2020 and provides property/casualty...
Investigation Into Florida Condo Collapse Is Expected to Finish in 2026
Jun 30 2025 // More than four years after a Florida condominium collapse killed 98 people, federal investigators have yet to make a final determination of the cause — but they do have some leading theories. The National Institute of...
Two More Insurers Enter Florida Market as Hurricane Season Warms Up
Jun 30 2025 // Two more property insurers have put their toes in the Florida market this summer, bringing to 14 the number of new carriers in the state since 2023. It’s another sign that legislative discouragement of claims...
Florida Citizens Moves to Have Commercial Claims Disputes Decided by DOAH
Jun 26 2025 // Three years after Citizens Property Insurance Corp. made the unprecedented move to resolve many of its residential claims disputes through a state agency instead of through litigation, officials are now planning to send...
Slide’s Exec Pay Leads to Questions About Florida Citizens’ Rate Model
Jun 26 2025 // At Wednesday’s Board of Governors meetings, a Citizens Property Insurance Corp. committee voted to move ahead with the full, 15% average rate increase for personal lines in 2026 – the largest increase allowed under...
Founder of Florida Special Needs Trust and Accountant Indicted in $100M Theft
Jun 25 2025 // Two Florida men, one a former life insurance broker, have been indicted in what prosecutors describe as a scheme to steal more than $100 million from a nonprofit that managed funds for people with disabilities and special...
