Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida Food Truck Bust
Apr 16 2012 // Florida officials said they have busted an alleged $800,000 insurance claims scam in which food trucks were used to stage accidents. Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrests of 15 defendants for...
3 Florida Claims Bills Signed
Apr 14 2012 // A man and a boy who suffered brain damage due to government negligence and the parents of a slain police informant will be compensated through three bills signed by Gov. Rick Scott. One would require Lee County’s...
States’ Group Considers Model Workers’ Compensation Drug Bill
Apr 12 2012 // In the wake of the Florida Legislature’s failure to cut physician reimbursements for prescribing repackaged drugs to workers’ compensation patients, a national group of state legislators is looking to create a...
Severe Weather Has Home Insurers Rethinking Coverages
Apr 10 2012 // As weather disasters strike with more frequency, U.S. homeowners first get hit with the destruction or total loss of property. Many are then hit with the unexpected loss of homeowners insurance policies as insurance...
Florida Homeowners Association Could Be Sued in Martin Shooting Case
Apr 10 2012 // If Trayvon Martin’s family sues over his death, they might not target George Zimmerman but instead the homeowners association of the neighborhood where the shooting happened and Zimmerman lived. That’s because...
Kish Joins Florida’s AssuredPartners
Apr 6 2012 // Florida-based insurance brokerage network AssuredPartners Inc. has added Mike Kish as director of mergers and acquisitions. Kish will assist in acquisitions throughout the United States. Kish has been in the brokerage...
Tampa Medical Firm Accused of End Run Around Florida’s New PIP Law
Apr 6 2012 // A Tampa company has sent fliers to chiropractors suggesting ways to capitalize on potential loopholes in new legislation aimed at denting the runaway fraud plaguing Florida’s mandatory motor vehicle no-fault law. The...
Florida Governor Signs 3 Negligence Claims Bills
Apr 2 2012 // A man and a boy who suffered brain damage due to government negligence and the parents of a slain police informant will be compensated through legislation signed by Gov. Rick Scott. He signed the three high-profile bills...
Florida Supreme Court to Decide on Medical Malpractice Caps
Apr 2 2012 // The fate of Florida’s caps on damages in medical malpractice cases now rests with the state’s high court after attorneys on both sides of the issue debated whether the caps are constitutional. The Florida...
Florida Passes Workers’ Comp Changes
Apr 2 2012 // While debates over property insurance and no-fault auto insurance consumed the attention of state officials and the media, Florida lawmakers quietly dealt with several other insurance issues, including workers’...
Mom Sues Florida Hospital for Cutting Off Baby’s Finger
Mar 30 2012 // A young mother is suing a central Florida hospital after a nurse accidentally snipped off the end of her baby’s pinky finger. An attorney for Veronica Olguin said the nurse at the Heart of Florida Regional Medical...
Southeast Non-Standard Auto Insurer Peachtree Acquired by California Firm
Mar 29 2012 // A Florida domiciled auto insurer that provides coverage to 18,000 drivers in the state and Georgia has been acquired by California equity firm looking to enter the non-standard market. Peachtree Casualty Insurance Co. is...
Florida Arrests 15 in Alleged Food Truck Insurance Scam
Mar 27 2012 // Florida officials said they have busted an alleged $800,000 insurance claims scam in which food trucks were used to stage accidents. Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the outcome of a two-year...
Supreme Court Gets Florida Dispute Over Vessel vs. Floating Home
Mar 26 2012 // Court documents refer to it as “that certain unnamed gray, two-story vessel approximately 57 feet in length.” To Fane Lozman, it was a floating Florida home never intended to sail the seas. Now, a long-running...
Supreme Court Rejects Tobacco Firm Appeal of Florida Award
Mar 26 2012 // The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it will not hear an appeal by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in a Florida case in which it was ordered to pay $28.3 million to a woman whose husband died of lung cancer after decades of...
Florida Tax-Credit Plan to Shore Up Cat Fund Raises Questions
Mar 22 2012 // A Florida plan to sell insurers and financial institutions state premium tax credits to help fund the state’s homeowners’ reinsurance facility is raising concerns among some officials. The Florida Insurance Tax...
Florida Delays Employee Drug Testing Pending Legal Challenge
Mar 21 2012 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s top lawyer has advised state agency heads to hold off on testing their employees for drugs under a new Florida law pending resolution of an existing legal challenge. The Republican governor...
Florida Insurers Wary of PIP Rate Rollbacks Timed for October
Mar 21 2012 // While state officials are widely praising Florida’s new no-fault auto insurance law, insurers are wary of having to implement rate decreases before there is a corresponding drop in losses as the new law...
Court Allows Suspension of Cardinal Health’s Florida Shipping Center
Mar 19 2012 // A U.S. appeals court allowed the government to suspend Cardinal Health Inc.’s license to distribute potentially addictive drugs from a Florida facility, part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s battle...
Florida Battles Over Beach Erosion, Costs of Replenishment
Mar 19 2012 // The St. Joseph Peninsula is picture-perfect Florida: 17 miles of sugar sand beach interrupted by a few clusters of homes, each with a million-dollar view of the Gulf of Mexico. But according to state officials, the...
