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Florida Seeks Information on String of Jacksonville Arsons
Dec 28 2015 // The Florida State Fire Marshal’s Office is looking for information about a string of arsons that occurred early the morning of December 8th, 2015, in Jacksonville, Fla. Around 3:00 a.m., a porch surveillance camera...
Study: Florida’s Crackdown on ‘Pill Mills’ Linked to Fewer Painkiller Overdose Deaths
Dec 22 2015 // A crackdown on Florida’s “pill mills” – clinics dispensing large quantities of prescription painkillers often for cash-only and without proper medical examinations – appears to have dramatically...
Alliant Adds Behnke to South Florida Practice
Dec 22 2015 // Alliant Insurance Services, a nationwide specialty insurance brokerage firm, has announced that Jason Behnke has joined its Alliant Americas division as vice president. The Miami Beach-based Behnke will work closely with...
Flood, Fraud & the Florida Market: McCarty Talks Hot Insurance Topics in 2015
Dec 21 2015 // It was another busy year for the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). From conducting the annual property/casualty data call and subsequent stress test of Florida property insurers, to working on the depopulation...
Florida Supreme Court Approves Medical Marijuana Ballot Measure
Dec 21 2015 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a constitutional measure legalizing marijuana for medical purposes can be placed on the ballot for next November’s general election. The seven justices ruled Dec. 17 that the...
Citizens Board Clarifies Policy Language for Florida Water Losses
Dec 21 2015 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s Board of Governors approved a slate of policy changes Dec. 8 to bolster oversight of water loss claims while continuing to protect policyholders who need immediate emergency...
Best, Worst States for Insurance Regulation
Dec 21 2015 // Vermont, Utah, Iowa, Virginia and Kentucky get an “A” and North Carolina an “F” in one think tank’s annual grading of states on how they regulate the property/casualty insurance industry. The...
Willis Opens ‘Operational Center of Excellence’ in Florida
Dec 17 2015 // Willis Group Holdings plc, the global risk advisory, re/insurance broking, and human capital and benefits firm, has opened its Operational Center of Excellence in Tampa, Fla. Establishing the Center is part of...
McCarty Receives ‘Insurance Man of the Year’ Award from LAAIA
Dec 17 2015 // Kevin McCarty Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty was presented with the Latin American Association of Insurance Agencies (LAAIA) “Insurance Man of the Year” Award on Dec. 4. According to the...
13 Challenges Filed Over Medical Marijuana Licenses Awarded to Florida Nurseries
Dec 16 2015 // When Florida’s Office of Compassionate Care named five nurseries to grow and distribute medical marijuana in the state, many expected there would be a few challenges filed – but not the more than a dozen that had...
BB&T-Oswald Trippe and Co. Adds Associates to Florida Offices
Dec 16 2015 // BB&T- Oswald Trippe and Company has expanded with new associates hires to its Florida offices. . Lisa Feanny has been named a personal lines sales associate for Miami. Feanny has 25 years of experience in the insurance...
Uber Winning Support in States for Classifying Drivers as Contractors
Dec 11 2015 // State legislators in Ohio and Florida are moving ahead with regulations governing Uber and other ride services that would designate all drivers as independent contractors, bolstering a critical but much-disputed aspect of...
Florida-Based Main Street America Appoints Giordano-Ramos Head of Bonds
Dec 11 2015 // The Main Street America Group has appointed Nancy Giordano-Ramos as its vice president/head of bonds. Giordano-Ramos had been the super-regional property/casualty insurance company’s interim head of bonds since...
Florida Approves Removal of Up to 75,115 Policies from Citizens
Dec 11 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the removal of up to 72,534 personal residential policies and 2,581 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. The following...
Report: Southeast States Unprepared for Future Risks from Climate Change
Dec 11 2015 // Source: States at Risk Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme...
Florida’s Normandy Insurance Hires Primato as Senior Field Underwriter
Dec 10 2015 // Normandy Insurance has hired Frank Primato has been hired as senior field underwriter. In his new position, Primato will develop and service the agency distribution network in Central Florida. Primato has more than 14...
Florida High Court: Citizens Immune from First-Party Bad Faith Claims
Dec 9 2015 // In Citizens Property Ins. Corp. v. Perdido Sun Condominium Ass’n, Inc., 164 So.3d 663 (Fla. 2015), the Florida Supreme Court held that Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a state-created entity that provided...
Citizens Approves Policy Language Changes to Tackle Water Loss Issue
Dec 9 2015 // Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s Board of Governors on Wednesday approved a slate of policy changes to bolster oversight of water loss claims while continuing to protect policyholders who need immediate...
Florida Issues Final Order for NCCI to Decrease Workers’ Comp Rates by 4.7%
Dec 7 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved an overall decrease of 4.7 percent in workers’ compensation insurance rates in Florida. Following the disapproval of its original rate filing request, the...
Report: Southeast States Not Prepared for Future Risks from Climate Change
Dec 7 2015 // Many states across the country, particularly in the Southeast, are unprepared to face the risks posed from extreme heat, drought, wildfires, inland flooding, coastal flooding and other extreme weather events, according to...
