Latest Florida Headlines
All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Approves Nearly 70K Citizens Policies for November Take-Outs
Sep 7 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the following companies to participate in the November Citizens Property Insurance Corp. take-out period. The total number of policies approved is...
Family of Tennessee Man Who Died While Scuba Diving in Florida Sues Dive Shop
Sep 7 2016 // The wife of a Tennessee man who died during a scuba dive in the Florida Panhandle is suing the dive shop. The News Herald reports the lawsuit filed Aug. 30 in Panama City claims negligence against Coast Adventures LLC,...
Zika Reveals Gaps in U.S. Mosquito Control Options
Sep 6 2016 // Over Wynwood, the Miami neighborhood where Zika gained a foothold in the continental United States, low flying planes have been spraying naled, a tightly controlled pesticide often used as a last resort. It appears to be...
SpaceX Keeps Insurance Terms Secret
Sep 6 2016 // Israel’s Space Communication Ltd. said on Sunday it could seek $50 million or a free flight from Elon Musk’s SpaceX after a Spacecom communications satellite was destroyed last week by an explosion at...
People – Midwest
Sep 6 2016 // Lansing, Mich.-based AF Group announced that Mike Britt, president of Accident Fund Insurance Co. of America, will retire in December. Al Gileczek, senior vice president of business development at Accident Fund, will...
Business Moves
Sep 6 2016 // World Insurance, AIV Group World Insurance Associates has acquired AIV Group. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. World Insurance is an independent insurance agency headquartered in Tinton Falls, N.J., that...
People – Southeast
Sep 6 2016 // Baldwin Krystyn Sherman Partners (BKS-Partners), an independent insurance brokerage firm, has appointed Steve Olson to advisor. Olson comes to BKS with over 25 years of industry experience in the Tampa Bay market. Most...
Brown & Brown in Florida Denies EEOC Allegations of Pregnancy Discrimination
Sep 6 2016 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed suit against national insurance brokerage firm Brown & Brown, based in Daytona Beach, Fla., over allegations it violated the Civil Rights Act by...
Florida Woman Caught Faking Injury in Attempt to Collect Workers’ Comp Payments
Sep 6 2016 // The Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services (DIFS) announced the arrest of a Fort Lauderdale woman after she attempted to fraudulently collect workers’ compensation...
Northeast Coast Spared Hermine’s Worst
Sep 5 2016 // Atlantic storm Hermine drifted north on Monday off the U.S. East Coast, still packing near-hurricane strength winds but far enough from land to spare the Middle Atlantic states. Forecasters warned swimmers and boaters...
Insurers Seen ‘Easily’ Handling Hermine Losses
Sep 2 2016 // Hurricane Hermine, which is poised to land in Florida Friday, may result in “manageable” losses for the insurance industry, according to Keefe Bruyette & Woods analyst Meyer Shields. The storm is forecast...
Hermine Weakens As It Hits Florida Panhandle; Some Flooding, Power Outages Expected
Sep 2 2016 // Hermine, the first hurricane to strike Florida since 2005, has weakened to a tropical storm as it moves inland, after threatening soy and cotton crops and leaving large swaths of the region at risk of...
Florida Finds First Local Mosquitoes With Zika Virus
Sep 2 2016 // Florida officials on Thursday said they have trapped the first mosquitoes that tested positive for the Zika virus in the Miami area, further confirming reports of local U.S. transmission of the illness that can cause...
Gulf Coast Prepares for Tropical Storm Hermine as Possibility of Hurricane Looms
Sep 1 2016 // Florida is being warned to prepare for arriving Tropical Storm Hermine, which is expected to dump heavy rain, bring strong winds and the possibility of isolated tornadoes across parts of the state, according to the Florida...
Commentary: It is a Catastrophe that No One Listens to the Experts on Florida
Sep 1 2016 // “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” Although the author is unknown, this comment is often attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas...
Tropical Weather System Approaches Southeast States
Aug 31 2016 // Crowds thinned Tuesday on the beaches of North Carolina’s Outer Banks ahead of a tropical weather system that threatened to bring strong winds and heavy rains that could flood low-lying areas. Elsewhere, a powerful...
How Florida Insurers Can Prepare for Claims from a Major Hurricane
Aug 31 2016 // After eight hurricanes in two years between 2004 and 2005, we haven’t seen a hurricane in Florida for over 10 years. Has the state learned from those storms? Are the insurance companies ready? What about the...
More Than 1K Bee Hives Stolen From Florida Bee Farmers
Aug 30 2016 // Southwest Florida bee farmers are having a difficult summer because thieves have been stealing their hives, lots of them, to the tune of $150,000 or more. So far, none of the hundreds of stolen hives have been recovered,...
A.M. Best Downgrades Ratings of Florida-Based American Capital Assurance
Aug 30 2016 // A.M. Best has downgraded the financial strength rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the issuer credit rating to “a-” from “a+” for American Capital Assurance Corp (ACAC) of St....
Florida Woman Caught Faking Injury in Attempt to Collect Workers’ Comp Payments
Aug 26 2016 // The Department of Financial Services’ Division of Investigative and Forensic Services (DIFS) announced the arrest of a Fort Lauderdale woman after she attempted to fraudulently collect workers’ compensation...
