Latest Florida Headlines
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Boyd Promoted to Florida Deputy Chief Financial Officer
Oct 20 2017 // The Department of Financial Services’ long-time Legislative Affairs Director Elizabeth Boyd has been promoted to Deputy Chief Financial Officer, according to a statement from Chief Financial Officer Jimmy...
BB&T-Oswald Trippe Adds 2 Commercial Lines Producers to Florida Team
Oct 20 2017 // BB&T- Oswald Trippe and Company has expanded its Southeast Florida team with the addition of two new associates as commercial lines producers to assist business clients in the greater Southeast Florida area. Kelly...
Florida Insurance Regulator Launches New Information Subscription Service
Oct 19 2017 // The Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has introduced a new subscription service where consumers and other interested parties can sign up and receive their choice of communications from the Florida Office of Insurance...
BKS Partners of Florida Promotes Hammer to Partner
Oct 18 2017 // Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners) has promoted Matt Hammer to partner. He will lead the company’s Orlando office. As a partner, Hammer now has an ownership stake in the firm. His involvement in...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rate Hearing Scheduled for Oct. 18
Oct 17 2017 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) will conduct a public hearing to discuss the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s (NCCI) proposed overall statewide average workers’ compensation premium...
Irma Dealt Devastating Blow to Florida Citrus, Other Crops
Oct 16 2017 // Florida’s famous oranges are still falling from trees and rotting on the ground weeks after Hurricane Irma, and the state’s agriculture commissioner said Thursday there will be fewer Florida vegetables on...
House Approves $36.5B Disaster Aid with Puerto Rico, Wildfires, Flood Insurance Funds
Oct 12 2017 // The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved $36.5 billion in emergency relief for hurricane-hit Puerto Rico and other areas that have suffered recent disasters. In addition to the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico,...
Former Florida Regulator Marcus Joins Holland & Knight’s Government Advocacy Team
Oct 12 2017 // Andrew Marcus, a former senior attorney and deputy director with Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR), has joined Holland & Knight’s Tallahassee office as a member of the firm’s Florida...
BKS Partners in Florida Taps Nash as Private Risk Management Director
Oct 11 2017 // Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners) of Florida has added Kelly Nash as Private Risk Management managing director. As the Private Risk Management managing director and member of the BKS leadership team, Nash...
Florida Irma-Related Nursing Home Deaths Climb to 14
Oct 11 2017 // Two women who lived at a Florida nursing home that lost air conditioning during Hurricane Irma have died, bringing to 14 the number of fatalities linked to the home. Cecilia Franco, 90, and Francesca Andrade, 95, died from...
Sunday Update: Weakened Tropical Storm Nate Brings Rain, Tornado Warnings to South
Oct 7 2017 // Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical depression on Sunday after coming ashore in Mississippi, flooding roads and buildings but sparing the state from catastrophic damages. Maximum sustained winds from Nate, the fourth...
King Tides, Heavy Rain Cause Flooding in Areas Hit by Irma
Oct 6 2017 // Heavy rainfall over much of South Florida has led to flooding in areas hit hard by Hurricane Irma. Flooding due to heavy rain and the annual “King tides” is being reported along low-lying streets from Key West...
Hurricane Irma Caused $2.5B in Damage to Florida Crops
Oct 6 2017 // State officials say Hurricane Irma caused more than $2.5 billion in damage to Florida’s agricultural community. Irma dealt Florida’s iconic orange crop the most devastating blow causing more than $760 million...
Trump Wants to Halt Government Flood Insurance for New Homes in Flood Zones
Oct 5 2017 // President Donald Trump proposed ending federal flood insurance for new homes in areas most at risk of flooding, a change that could curtail new construction in vast parts of Florida, Louisiana and along the Eastern...
EEOC Sues Whataburger for Alleged Retaliation Against Florida Manager
Oct 5 2017 // The government has sued the Texas-based fast-food chain Whataburger for allegedly retaliating against a white restaurant manager in Florida who refused to follow an upper management directive to hire only white...
Florida’s Tower Hill Prime Gets Revised Outlooks to Negative From A.M. Best
Oct 4 2017 // A.M. Best has revised the outlooks to negative from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A- (Excellent) and Long Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” of Tower Hill Prime Insurance Co.,...
Patriot National Promotes Brewer to SVP in Florida
Oct 2 2017 // Patriot National has promoted Nicole Brewer to senior vice president, Marketing and Corporate Operations. She is based in the company’s Fort Lauderdale, Fla., office. In this position, Brewer will continue to provide...
Florida Hurricane Irma Losses Keep Rising
Oct 2 2017 // With two Florida landfalls in the same day, Hurricane Irma’s destructive wind and flood damage could cost up to $65 billion for both insured and uninsured losses, according to a recent estimate by...
A.M. Best: Hurricane Irma to Test Florida Market Newbies
Oct 2 2017 // Hurricane Irma represents a sizeable catastrophe event that will test the infrastructure and potentially strain the financial wherewithal of some local and regional carriers in Florida, particularly those that are...
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Oct 2 2017 // Former Florida State Senator John M. McKay has been appointed to the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation Board of Governors by Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis, according to an announcement from the Florida...
