Latest Florida Headlines
All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Supreme Court Cancels Medical Marijuana Amendment Hearing
Nov 16 2015 // The Florida Supreme Court has canceled a Dec. 8 hearing it had scheduled to consider a measure to legalize medical marijuana. The court announced the decision on Friday. The move comes a few days after Attorney General Pam...
Newest Brightway Agency Opens in Florida
Nov 16 2015 // The newest Brightway Insurance Agency, The Patrick James Agency, has opened in Miami Lakes, Fla., by agency owner, Patrick James. Brightway is a national property/casualty insurance retailer selling through a network of...
Best Agency to Work For – Southeast
Nov 16 2015 // Celedinas Insurance Group – Providing a Personal Touch From the Top Ray Celedinas may be the “man at the top” and namesake of the successful Celedinas Insurance Group, but employees of the Florida-based...
Florida AG Won’t Fight Medical Marijuana Measure
Nov 13 2015 // Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who loudly opposed a medical marijuana measure that appeared on the 2014 ballot, is staying on the sidelines this time around. Bondi said she is still opposes the effort to legalize...
Florida Issues Final Order for NCCI to Decrease Workers’ Comp Rates by 4.7%
Nov 13 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...
Florida Joins International Information Exchange Agreement
Nov 12 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has joined as the 55th jurisdiction internationally to be admitted as a signatory to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) Multilateral Memorandum of...
NCCI Requests Review of Disapproved Florida Rate Filing
Nov 10 2015 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has submitted a request to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) to consider supplemental information in regards to its recent workers compensation rate...
Florida Issues Data Call for Water Claims, Assignment of Benefit Costs
Nov 10 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) ordered Florida’s largest property insurers on Oct. 23 to submit detailed information on water loss claims, mitigation services, litigation and assignment of benefits....
Florida Man Sues Trucking Company, Driver for $10M Over Crash That Killed Family
Nov 9 2015 // A northeast Florida man has filed a $10 million wrongful death lawsuit against a semi-truck driver and others related to a wreck that killed his wife and three stepchildren. The SUV Dexter Culclager’s family had been...
Florida Approves First Citizens Take-Out Offers for 2016
Nov 9 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the removal of up to 127,266 personal residential policies and 3,268 commercial residential/non-residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance...
A.M. Best Upgrades Issuer Credit Rating of Auto Club Insurance Company of Florida
Nov 5 2015 // A.M. Best has upgraded the issuer credit rating (ICR) to “bbb+” from “bbb” of Auto Club Insurance Company of Florida (ACICF) in Tampa. Concurrently, A.M. Best has affirmed ACICF’s financial...
McCarty Orders NCCI to Further Lower Florida’s Workers’ Comp Rates
Nov 4 2015 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin M. McCarty has ordered the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) to lower workers’ compensation rates for Florida employers by 5.1 percent. The Order signed Nov. 3 is...
Florida Drops Order for The Doctors Co. to Lower Rates
Nov 3 2015 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has dropped its Order for The Doctors Co. (TDC) to lower its filed rates by 15 percent. The rates proposed by the medical malpractice insurer back in Dec. 2014 will remain...
Florida City Officials Deny Allegations over Spring Break Ordinance
Nov 3 2015 // Officials in Florida’s Panhandle are disputing allegations in a lawsuit claiming that racial bias was behind new ordinances designed to curb spring break mayhem. Panama City Beach Mayor Gayle Oberst told The News...
Florida DMV Requests Dismissal of Taxi Companies’ Rideshare Complaint
Nov 2 2015 // In a move that is sure to further frustrate Florida taxicab companies, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FDHSMV) has asked a Leon County, Florida, judge to dismiss a complaint requiring the state...
Florida Beach City Businesses Say Spring Break Ban Violates Civil Rights
Nov 2 2015 // Several Panama City Beach, Fla., nightclub owners argue in a lawsuit filed Oct. 30 that local officials violated their rights and showed racial bias when they approved a series of new ordinances designed to curb spring...
People – Southeast
Nov 2 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has announced he plans to seek re-election in 2016. “I remain committed to protecting the people of North Carolina through fair and reasonable insurance regulation,...
Outlook for Homeowners Insurance Market Improves: Report
Nov 2 2015 // The outlook for the U.S. homeowners market has improved over last year thanks in part to rate increases and lower reinsurance costs, according to reinsurance intermediary Aon Benfield. A new report by Aon Benfield...
Florida Man Injured by Exploding E-Cigarette
Oct 30 2015 // Fire officials say a southwest Florida man was injured when an e-cigarette he was smoking exploded in his face. North Collier Deputy Fire Chief Eloy Ricardo says the man suffered burns to his face and also inhaled a piece...
Florida Regulators ‘Encouraged’ by Insurers’ Stress Test Results
Oct 29 2015 // Florida property insurers are well-capitalized and able to handle a 1-in-100 year storm event if and when it occurs in the state, according to the Florida Office of Insurance’s 2015 Data Call and subsequent stress...
