Latest Florida Headlines
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Insurer Trade Group Urges Florida to Curb Auto Insurance ‘Fraud Tax’
Oct 28 2011 // Florida should allow more time for looking into suspicious claims, place a cap on attorneys’ fees and more closely regulate medical clinics to help reduce rampant fraud in the state’s personal injury protection...
What Should Florida Do to Fix Citizens, Property Insurance? Share Your Ideas
Oct 27 2011 // As Insurance Journal has reported, Florida lawmakers are considering the future of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. It’s supposed to be the insurer of last resort...
What Should Florida Do to Fix Citizens, Property Insurance? Share Your Ideas
Oct 26 2011 // As Insurance Journal has reported, Florida lawmakers are considering the future of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. It’s supposed to be the insurer of last resort...
Florida Approves 8.9% Workers’ Comp Rate Increase
Oct 25 2011 // Employers in Florida will be paying more for workers’ compensation coverage next year following the state insurance chief’s approval of an 8.9 percent statewide average rate hike. Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Florida Man Wins $1M Claim Against South Carolina Lawyer
Oct 25 2011 // A federal jury has awarded a Florida man $1 million in punitive damages against his former Charleston lawyer. The Post and Courier reported that a jury in Columbia ruled against attorney Robert Lowe Jr. in the legal...
More Unfit Floridians Have Driver’s Licenses Yanked
Oct 25 2011 // The number of Floridians who have had their driver’s licenses revoked because they are deemed physically or mentally unfit has more than doubled in the last decade. State figures show the main reasons many lose...
Carbone Joins Florida’s Kuykendall Gardner
Oct 21 2011 // Florida insurance broker Kuykendall Gardner has tapped Nicholas Carbone to serve as a vice president of transactional risk. In this role, he will assess, mitigate and transfer risk through insurance and other business...
Florida to Train More Troopers to Investigate Highway Accidents
Oct 20 2011 // Florida’s top highway safety official wants to put more troopers who specialize in investigating highway fatalities out on the road. Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Director Julie Jones told members of the Florida...
Florida Hurricane Fund Has $3.2 Billion Shortfall
Oct 20 2011 // Florida’s hurricane fund is confronting a potential $3.2 billion shortfall, financial experts said in a new estimate of the money available to the pool intended to help insurers make disaster payments. The fund was...
Florida Approves Insurer Targeting Foreign Nationals
Oct 18 2011 // Florida regulators have given the go-ahead for an insurer that wants to provide foreign nationals with access to the U.S. health insurance market. Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced that Best Doctors Limited...
Florida’s Ranew, Ranzino Agencies Merge
Oct 18 2011 // Two Florida insurance agencies have merged as part of a plan to increase their business in southeast Florida. Ranew Insurance President Barry Ranew and Ranzino Insurance President Marion Ranzino announced they are merging...
Fixin’ Citizens
Oct 17 2011 // As Michael Adams reports, Florida lawmakers are considering the future of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurer, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. It’s supposed to be the insurer of last resort but...
One Frustrated Florida County Decides to Tackle Auto Insurance Fraud On Its Own
Oct 17 2011 // One county in Florida has decided not to wait on state lawmakers’ promise to address the insurance fraud and fix the state’s automobile no-fault law. It has passed its own ordinance to crack down on fraudulent...
Florida Lawmakers Contemplate the Future of Citizens
Oct 17 2011 // With four months to go before Florida’s legislative session, lawmakers are already considering the future of the state’s largest homeowners’ insurer. However, there are few easy answers in sight. Citizens...
Florida Commercial Lines Deregulation Law Takes Effect
Oct 17 2011 // Commercial insurers in Florida no longer have to seek prior approval from state regulators before changing some of the rates they charge under a new law that took effect October 1. Earlier this year, Florida lawmakers...
Florida County Encounters Problems with Breath Test Machines
Oct 14 2011 // Prosecutors in Florida have decided not to use alcohol breath-test results in about 100 current driving under the influence (DUI) cases in Sarasota and Manatee counties after learning about problematic breath-test...
Florida’s Citizens Approves Rate Hikes Including for Sinkhole Coverage
Oct 14 2011 // Florida residents covered through the state’s largest homeowner insurer will soon pay more for coverage after the insurer ratified a number of rate hikes recently approved by regulators. The Citizens Property...
Florida Weighs Workers’ Comp Hike, Cost of Doctor-Dispensed Drugs
Oct 13 2011 // Florida employers could have to pay more in workers’ compensation premiums if regulators go along with a proposed statewide average 8.9 percent rate hike. The rate change may also trigger legislative action to clamp...
Confie Seguros Enters Florida Market, Buys Trustway Agencies
Oct 11 2011 // Confie Seguros, a group of insurance agencies targeting Hispanic customers, has acquired the Miami, Florida-based Trustway Insurance Agencies. Founded in 1998, Trustway has 28 locations in the state and additional offices...
Lloyd’s Enters Florida Reinsurance Market Under Reduced Capital Rule
Oct 7 2011 // Florida has added its first reinsurer from the United Kingdom to a list of reinsurers taking advantage of a state law that reduces reinsurers’ capital requirements. In an effort to attract more private capital to the...
