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Florida Restricts Eligibility for Citizens’ HO-8 Policies
Jan 14 2013 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer and state regulators have cleared the path for the insurer to begin issuing a new HO-8 policy by limiting it to low-value older homes, addressing concerns that the...
Confie Eyes More Expansion, Push Into Standard Lines
Jan 10 2013 // In the coming year Confie Seguros plans to up its buying spree and expand into standard personal and small commercial lines, while broadening its demographic from being primarily Hispanic focused, the president of the...
Florida Doctors Dispute Workers’ Compensation Drug Cost Claim
Jan 10 2013 // Florida doctors are disputing a state report saying drugs dispensed by physicians directly to patients are raising workers’ compensation rates. The Florida Medical Association said in a statement issued that doctors...
Atlantic Specialty Lines Announces New Office in South Florida
Jan 9 2013 // Miramar, FL, 01/08/13 – Atlantic Specialty Lines announces the opening of their newest office located in South Florida. The office in Miramar will be led by Nancy Riveron and Marianne Correa. ASL is looking to better...
Florida Hospital Group to Offer Health Insurance to Patients
Jan 8 2013 // The Florida Hospital group has announced it will begin offering patients health insurance starting in January 2014. The Daytona-based Florida Hospital, which has five hospitals in the state, is part of the Adventist Health...
Florida’s Citizens, Regulators Agree to Restrict Eligibility for New HO-8 Policies
Jan 4 2013 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer and state regulators have cleared the path for the insurer to begin issuing a new HO-8 policy by limiting it to low-value older homes, addressing concerns that the...
Confie Seguros Buys 3 More Florida Brokerages
Jan 3 2013 // Hispanic market-focused insurance agency network Confie Seguros said it has acquired three insurance brokerages in Florida that will strengthen the company’s operations in that state. Confie Seguros completed the...
Even Without Big Storms, Florida Property Insurance Costs Rise
Jan 3 2013 // Marco Tarafa was stunned to find that his homeowners’ policy is increasing by nearly $1,000 a year —all because inspectors couldn’t get into his attic, where there was no crawl space and about 24 inches of...
Florida Court Allows Drivers to Rebut Presumption of Fault in Rear-End Crashes
Dec 28 2012 // Florida’s high court has ruled that drivers that cause an automobile accident by striking another car from behind can still sue the other driver for damages depending on the circumstances of the accident and the...
Florida Court Bans Private Doctor-Lawyer Meetings in Malpractice Cases
Dec 27 2012 // Malpractice defendants must not try to circumvent a Florida law that bars them from obtaining confidential medical information about plaintiffs from other doctors or dentists who are treating them, the state Supreme Court...
Florida’s Citizens Balks at Issuing HO-8 Policy
Dec 19 2012 // Florida’s quasi-governmental property insurer is resisting a statutory requirement that it start issuing an HO-8 policy due to a disagreement with regulators over rates and concerns that the policy’s reduced...
Brown & Brown Acquires Behnke & Associates in South Florida
Dec 18 2012 // Florida-based national insurance brokerage Brown & Brown Inc. announced this month asset acquisitions of Behnke & Associates Inc., an independent insurance agency located in South Florida. Founded in 1995, Behnke...
Praetorian Offers to Lower Florida Forced-Placement Rates by 18.8%
Dec 18 2012 // A forced placement mortgage property insurer providing coverage in Florida has offered to lower its rates by an average of 18.8 percent, despite the fact that state regulators said the rate decrease should be double that...
Florida’s Citizens Cancels Surplus Loan Plan; CEO Questions Depopulation Methods
Dec 14 2012 // Officials of Florida’s policyholder-back insurer have decided not to pursue a plan to loan private insurers part of its surplus in exchange for removing policies citing the fact that as currently envisioned no...
Judge Denies Some Medical Providers’ Plea to Block Florida PIP Law
Dec 13 2012 // A federal court judge has denied a motion brought forward by some medical providers who claimed that Florida’s new no-fault auto law unfairly prevented them from making a living, on the basis it is unlikely they will...
Florida Cabinet Approves PIP Benefit Rule Sought by Insurers
Dec 13 2012 // Florida officials have approved an emergency rule that will allow auto insurers providing no-fault coverage to use a form informing accident victims of their benefits under the state’s revised personal injury...
Florida’s Ex-Republican Governor Crist Eyes Return as Democrat
Dec 10 2012 // Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who was elected the state’s chief executive as a Republican and then ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate as an independent, has announced that he’s switching to the...
Florida Regulator Conducting Review of Citizens Insurance
Dec 7 2012 // Florida regulators are working on a report that is expected to layout the financial status, claims handling and other administrative workings of the state’s 1.4 million policyholder-backed property insurer. Florida...
Florida Lawmakers Ponder More Pricing Freedom for Property Insurer Citizens
Dec 6 2012 // Some Florida legislators said this week they would consider giving the state’s largest property insurer more control over its rates, including allowing the company to raise rates to bolster its ability to pay...
Florida Extends ‘Fast Track’ Policy Form Approval
Dec 4 2012 // Florida insurance regulators are extending a process that fast tracks approval of insurance company forms. The Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) says the extension until June 2013 is necessary due to limited resources...
