Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida Supreme Court to Review Wrongful Death Award
Oct 11 2013 // The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of the reduction of the monetary award in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a University of Central Florida football player who died following...
Patriot National Appoints VP of Enterprise Data Architecture in Florida
Oct 10 2013 // Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., a workers’ compensation insurer based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., promoted Anat Veader to vice president of enterprise data architecture. Her previous title was data architect. In...
Howard Named President of Florida-Based National Retail Agency Brightway
Oct 10 2013 // Jacksonville, Florida-based national insurance agency franchise company Brightway Insurance has promoted Talman Howard to president of the company, with day-to-day management responsibilities for the organization. Howard...
Florida’s First Light Program Managers Acquires Frontline Underwriters of Mississippi
Oct 10 2013 // First Light Program Managers of Dania, Florida, said it has acquired substantially all of the assets of wholesale broker Frontline Underwriters Inc. of Madison, Mississippi. Details of the transaction were not...
Florida Fines Universal P&C Co. $1.26M
Oct 9 2013 // Florida’s second largest property insurer is paying a fine of $1.26 million. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced Monday that Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. has agreed to pay the...
Florida to Hear State Farm Rental Dwelling Rate Hike Bid
Oct 8 2013 // Florida insurance officials will hold a public hearing tomorrow on State Farm Florida Insurance Co.’s proposed double-digit rate increase for its rental dwelling line of business in the state. State Farm Florida is...
Florida Welcomes Era of Workers’ Compensation Market Stability
Oct 8 2013 // Florida’s workers’ compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials. The agency, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, filed for a one percent...
Supreme Court Rejects Tobacco Companies’ Appeal of Florida Case
Oct 7 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the tobacco industry’s appeal of a Florida ruling that may help thousands of smokers sue cigarette makers over smoking-related illnesses. The nation’s highest court today turned...
Florida-Based SDII Global Names Howard as President
Oct 7 2013 // Tampa, Florida-based forensic engineering and insurance services firm SDII Global Corp. has named David M. Howard as chief executive officer. Howard brings 25 years of management and insurance experience to SDII, having...
Declarations
Oct 7 2013 // Unfair “This unfair consequence could devastate parts of Florida’s real estate market, stymie Florida’s economic recovery and diminish the state’s tax base.” —Florida Gov. Rick Scott urging...
Insurers Hope Court Decides Soon on Florida PIP Reforms
Oct 7 2013 // Florida automobile insurers are hoping a court will lift an injunction that has blocked portions of the state’s 2012 no-fault law from taking effect. Florida’s First District Court of Appeals recently heard...
Obamacare Day 3: High Demand, Enrollment Glitches Persist
Oct 4 2013 // Americans trying to find out how much health coverage will cost under Obamacare endured a third day of limited access to new online health insurance exchanges on Thursday, leading to a growing backlog of people waiting to...
Gulf Coast Braces for Flooding from Tropical Storm Karen
Oct 3 2013 // Tropical Storm Karen may bring more than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain, isolated tornadoes and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where it is expected to go ashore over the weekend, forecasters said. Karen, with top...
Bill Would Take the Florida Cat Fund in the Wrong Direction
Oct 3 2013 // Florida state Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Margate, has filed Senate Bill 228 to maintain the current statutory requirement that the state-run Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, better known as the Cat Fund, sell $17 billion in...
Florida Medical Malpractice Consent Rule Preempted By Federal Law, Says Judge
Oct 2 2013 // A federal judge has struck down a key Florida medical malpractice law that required a patient to allow a defending physician’s attorney to informally discuss the case with the patient’s other health care...
Bill to Delay Flood Insurance Rate Hikes Stymied by Shutdown Politics
Oct 2 2013 // A bipartisan proposal to delay federal flood insurance rate hikes that took effect Tuesday is being stymied by a bitter congressional dispute over President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, Sen. Bill Nelson...
Florida Ban on Texting While Driving Now in Effect
Oct 2 2013 // Florida is joining 40 other states in the U.S. where it is illegal to text and drive. The ban is one of more than two dozen laws passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature scheduled that kicked in on Tuesday, Oct....
Florida’s Heritage Insurance Names Russell Chief of Underwriting, Sales
Oct 1 2013 // Florida homeowner insurer Heritage Property & Casualty Insurance has named Mel Russell as its new chief underwriting officer, executive vice president and director of Sales and Marketing. Russell has 36 years of...
Hub Acquires Florida’s Connelly, Carlisle, Fields & Nichols
Oct 1 2013 // Global insurance broker Hub International Limited has acquired the assets of Connelly, Carlisle, Fields & Nichols (CCFN), a Clearwater, Florida-based insurance brokerage firm. Terms of the acquisition were not...
Mississippi Insurance Chief Sues to Halt Flood Insurance Rate Hikes
Sep 29 2013 // The Mississippi Department of Insurance has filed a lawsuit against the federal government to try to block rates from increasing Oct. 1 in the National Flood Insurance Program. State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said...
