Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida Leads States in Ticketing Speeding Drivers: Study
Nov 29 2012 // Speeding drivers are more likely to get ticketed in the Sunshine State than in any other state, according to a new study from CarInsuranceQuotes.com, an auto insurance services provider. In 2011, Florida police handed out...
Florida Commission to Decide Nuclear Plant Insurance Rate Offset
Nov 28 2012 // The state Public Service Commission is considering annual rate adjustments sought by Progress Energy Florida including a charge for power purchased to replace output from a crippled nuclear reactor. The commission will...
Florida’s Citizens Under Scrutiny for Alleged Management Misconduct, Favoritism
Nov 23 2012 // Florida officials are seeking answers after an internal investigation into the conduct of some former and current executives of the state’s largest property insurer yielded evidence of incomplete investigations into...
Florida Gov. Scott Seeks Audit of Citizens Over Firings
Nov 21 2012 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott has asked Inspector General Melinda Miguel to investigate the recent firings of four Citizens Property Insurance Corp. employees responsible for keeping an eye on any internal wrongdoing at the...
Florida OKs Allstate’s Castle Key Rate Increases
Nov 21 2012 // Florida regulators have approved a statewide average rate increase of 14.9 percent for Allstate ‘s Florida unit, Castle Key Insurance Co. The change will apply to Castle Key’s existing homeowners, renters and...
Florida Supreme Court Rules in 2 Sovereign Immunity Cases
Nov 19 2012 // The Florida Supreme Court last week put off a decision on whether Citizens Property Insurance Corp. can use its status as a state-backed entity to avoid lawsuits accusing it of bad faith in responding to claims. The...
Florida Gov. Scott Seeks Meeting on Health Exchange
Nov 19 2012 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott told federal health officials in a letter Friday that he isn’t convinced a state health exchange will lower health care costs for Floridians, and that he’s worried the actual costs could...
Five Republican Governors Reject State-Run Health Exchanges
Nov 19 2012 // Five Republican governors rejected on Friday a major provision of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law that calls on states to set up online health insurance markets where consumers can purchase private...
Declarations – Southeast
Nov 19 2012 // Florida Foundation “The very foundation of Florida’s independent judicial system was threatened in this election. I am grateful that Florida voters once again demonstrated their faith in our fair and impartial...
Florida Advocate Scrutinizes Insurer Use of Credit History to Deny Claims
Nov 19 2012 // Florida’s consumer advocate has called for an investigation into insurers using homeowners’ past credit history to deny claims and cancel policies even though the homeowners have paid premiums for...
Florida High Court Delays Ruling on Citizens’ Immunity
Nov 16 2012 // The Florida Supreme Court has put off a decision on whether Citizens Property Insurance Corp. can use its status as a state-backed entity to avoid lawsuits. The high court ruled in a 5-2 opinion on Thursday that Citizens...
Florida Citizens’ Murphy Named VP by Main Street America
Nov 14 2012 // Debbie Murphy has joined The Main Street America Group as the property/casualty insurance carrier’s vice president and head of personal lines product. Murphy will be based at the company’s home office in...
How Voters Voted on State Court Justices
Nov 8 2012 // Voters around the country for the most part stood by incumbent state Supreme Court justices, including where Republicans, business groups and others targeted the judges for defeat. However, two incumbents on Ohio’s...
3 ‘Liberal’ Florida Justices Win Retention Bids
Nov 8 2012 // Three Florida Supreme Court justices easily won a retention bid Tuesday despite an unprecedented push by the Republican Party of Florida to oust them after several rulings the party disliked. Justices R. Fred Lewis,...
Florida Industry Presses Progress Energy on Nuclear Reactor Insurance Claim
Nov 7 2012 // Lawyers for industrial consumers are questioning Progress Energy Florida’s approach to calculating how much insurance money the utility can expect in 2013 to help pay for power to replace output from a crippled...
F.I.D.O. Brings Dog Bite Liability Coverage to Florida
Nov 5 2012 // When commercial lines agent and dog owner Debbie Turner began to look into help for her difficult dog back in 2000, she had no idea that her journey would end up leading to a new personal lines insurance option. She...
Florida’s Citizens President Gilway: Staff Firings Premature
Nov 5 2012 // In the face of criticism, the top executive of Florida’s state-backed property insurer acknowledged that his decision to close the insurer’s office in charge of corporate oversight before having its replacement...
Florida Approves More Takeouts at Citizens; OKs Commercial Hikes
Nov 5 2012 // Florida regulators announced that two property insurance companies have been approved to take out up to 100,000 policies from the state-backed insurer in December, adding to the 210,000 policies already slated for removal...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rates Going Up
Nov 5 2012 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said he will approve a 6.1 percent rate increase to become effective January 1, 2013 for workers’ compensation. The decision was based on a filing submitted for insurers...
Florida Consumer Advocate Hits Use of Past Credit History to Deny Claims
Nov 2 2012 // Florida’s consumer advocate is calling for an investigation into insurers using homeowners’ past credit history to deny claims and cancel policies even though the homeowners have paid premiums for...
