Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida Insurer American Integrity Appoints Dowd as EVP
Aug 21 2019 // American Integrity has appointed industry veteran Dick Dowd as executive vice president. Dowd will report to Bob Ritchie, president and CEO, and be responsible for all sales and marketing staff and initiatives. He will...
Florida’s BKS-Partners Appoints Thompson to Managing Advisor
Aug 20 2019 // Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners), an insurance brokerage and risk management firm headquartered in Tampa, Fla., has appointed Rich Thompson to managing advisor. Thompson joined BKS-Partners in 2015 as an...
Business Moves
Aug 19 2019 // National Altamont Capital Partners, Topa Insurance Group Altamont Capital Partners has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Calabasas, Calif.-based Topa Insurance Group from its long-time owner, Topa Equities Ltd. The...
People & Places
Aug 19 2019 // National Hiscox, the Bermuda-headquartered specialist insurer, has appointed Melissa Hill as head of claims in the U.S. Hill, who has more than a decade of experience in claims operations, will oversee the strategic...
Florida Supreme Court Dismisses Long-Awaited Case on AOB Policy Language
Aug 19 2019 // The Florida Supreme Court has reversed course and decided not to hear a controversial case regarding the validity of certain language around assignment of benefit agreements, instead ruling that a law passed by the Florida...
Brightway Insurance to Open Four Stores in Florida, South Carolina, Colorado
Aug 16 2019 // Brightway Insurance will open four new stores in Florida, South Carolina and Colorado on Monday, August 19. Alex McGregor opened Brightway, The McGregor Agency in Deerfield Beach, Fla., Lisa Jewell opened Brightway, The...
Two Florida Independent Agencies Join Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services
Aug 16 2019 // Renaissance Alliance Insurance Services, a membership alliance for independent insurance agencies, has announced that two Miami, Fla.-based independent insurance agencies have recently joined the Alliance. Gil &...
Brown & Brown of Florida Acquires CKP
Aug 15 2019 // Brown & Brown of Florida Inc. has acquired substantially all of the assets of CKP. CKP provides brokerage services for customers throughout the U.S. operating in agricultural industry. In addition, CKP provides...
Nation’s Excess & Surplus Market Reports 13% Growth Through Midyear
Aug 14 2019 // Source: Texas Surplus Lines Stamping Office The nation’s excess and surplus lines insurance industry is growing almost 13 percent faster halfway through this year than it did last year at this time. Mid-year premium...
4 Facts that the Number of Open Michael Claims Won’t Tell You
Aug 14 2019 // Much is being made of a recent call by Florida Insurance Commissioner, David Altmaier, for insurance companies to “redouble efforts to resolve all open claims…” related to Hurricane Michael. Here’s the...
Commentary: As Flood Threat Grows, Florida Must Mandate Flood Risk Disclosure
Aug 14 2019 // The climate is changing, and it has become abundantly clear that Florida is going to be badly damaged in the decades ahead. With the state experiencing increasingly devastating effects of severe tropical weather and...
Florida Appoints State’s First Chief Resilience Officer to Prepare for Sea Level Rise
Aug 9 2019 // Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has appointed Dr. Julia Nesheiwat as Florida’s first Chief Resilience Officer (CRO). The CRO will be tasked with preparing Florida for the environmental, physical and economic impacts of...
Naples, Florida Loses $700K in Spear Phishing Cyberattack
Aug 8 2019 // Officials in the southwest Florida city of Naples say they lost $700,000 in a recent cyberattack. The Naples Daily News reports that the attack was a “spear phishing” effort targeting a specific person or...
Florida Supreme Court Dismisses Long-Awaited Case on AOB Policy Language
Aug 7 2019 // The Florida Supreme Court has reversed course and decided not to hear a controversial case regarding the validity of certain language around assignment of benefit agreements, instead ruling that a law passed by the Florida...
AM Best Upgrades Credit Rating of State Farm Florida Insurance Co.
Aug 7 2019 // AM Best has upgraded the FSR to A- (Excellent) from B++ (Good) and the Long-Term ICR to “a-” from “bbb+” of State Farm Florida Insurance Co. (State Farm Florida) based in Winter Haven, Fla. The...
BRP Partners with Foundation Insurance of Florida
Aug 6 2019 // Baldwin Risk Partners (BRP), a Tampa, Florida based insurance distribution holding company, has partnered with Foundation Insurance of Florida, a Boca Raton, Fla.-based insurance agency. Foundation Insurance of Florida was...
Carter Appointed Florida Insurance Consumer Advocate
Aug 5 2019 // Tasha Carter, long-time director of the Florida Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) Division of Consumer Services, has been appointed by Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis as the state’s Insurance...
People
Aug 5 2019 // National Linda Dodson The Vertafore technology users network, NetVU, has named Linda Dodson as executive director. Dodson’s career has included work in an insurance agency and with agency carriers. She began her...
Family of Florida Man Killed in Autopilot Crash Sues Tesla
Aug 2 2019 // Tesla Inc. was sued for the second time in three months by the family of a car owner who was killed in a crash while using the driver-assistance system Autopilot. Jeremy Banner, 50, died when the Model 3 sedan he was...
Florida Regulator Calls Open Hurricane Michael Claims ‘Discouraging’; Plans Data Call
Aug 1 2019 // With more than 20,000 claims related to Hurricane Michael still open nine months after the storm hit the Florida Panhandle, Florida’s top insurance regulator is calling on the insurance industry to take “all...
