Latest Florida Headlines
All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Elvis Music Suits in Florida, England Claim Copyright Infringement
Feb 11 2011 // Elvis Presley Enterprises said it’s suing men in Florida and England on claims of copyright infringement and illegal sale of a DVD and CD box set of recordings and footage of the singer’s...
Florida CFO Atwater Seeks Claimants’ Feedback on BP Oil Claims
Feb 11 2011 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater is asking the state’s business community and BP oil spill claimants for their input regarding the claims handling process of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. Specifically,...
Gresham Announces Retirement of Sizer
Feb 10 2011 // Gresham and Associates Insurance Brokers has announced that Debbie Sizer, long-time branch manager of the firm’s West Palm Beach, Florida office has retired after 26 years with the firm. Jennifer Marx Klassen, a...
Florida Advances Workers’ Compensation, Commercial Deregulation Bills
Feb 10 2011 // The Florida House Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking has approved a bill that would codify the Florida Workers’ Compensation Joint Underwriting Associations’ current rating plan and create the position of...
Florida Senate Committee Postpones Vote on Property Legislation
Feb 8 2011 // For the second straight week, the Florida Banking and Insurance Committee failed to reach a final vote on its comprehensive property insurance bill. The delay comes as committee members remain bogged down over how to...
Florida Senate Looking to Expand Commercial Deregulation
Feb 8 2011 // The Florida Senate and Banking Insurance Committee has approved a bill that would deregulate a variety of commercial lines of insurance by allowing insurers to offer the coverage without first obtaining the Office of...
Mercury Insurance Suffers $23.6M Net Loss
Feb 8 2011 // Due in part to claims from California rainstorms and Florida sinkholes, Los Angeles-based Mercury Insurance reported a fourth quarter net loss of $23.6 million, compared with net income of $34.2 million for the same period...
Mercury General to Exit Florida Homeowners Market
Feb 7 2011 // Citing fourth quarter losses in Florida of $19 million, Mercury General said it would begin the process of withdrawing from the state’s homeowners insurance market. The company said it will send the mandatory 180-day...
Businesses, Charities Call for End to Florida’s ‘Hurricane Tax’
Feb 7 2011 // A coalition of Florida charitable and business groups is pressing the state to eliminate assessments charged all policyholders to subsidize the state-backed insurance provider and hurricane claims fund. In a letter to Gov....
Court Sides with Florida Regulator Over Texas Insurer
Feb 7 2011 // A Texas-based workers’ compensation insurer has lost its appeal of rulings by the Florida insurance commissioner that have blocked it from doing business in the state. On Jan 20, without explanation, a three-judge...
Brown & Brown Names 4 Regional Vice Presidents
Feb 7 2011 // Florida-based insurance agency Brown & Brown, Inc. has named regional vice presidents in Washington, Florida, Louisiana and Pennsylvania. Eric E. Anderson, Anthony M. Grippa, Thomas Keith Huval and Richard A. Knudson,...
The Mood On Main Street
Feb 7 2011 // Has the recession changed how small business feels about insurance? The recession has taken its toll on contractors, restaurants, retailers, small manufacturers and other Main Street business around the country and most of...
Virginia Move Could Speed Up Supreme Court Review of Healthcare Law
Feb 4 2011 // Virginia said Thursday it will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul, bypassing the appeals process in a rarely used move to try to speed up a definitive...
Florida Regulator Wants Dallas National Vendetta Lawsuit Dismissed
Feb 3 2011 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty is back in federal court looking to end a legal battle with the Texas-based Dallas National Insurance Co. and its owner Charles David Wood, who claims the commissioner denied...
Csiszar, Ex-Regulator, Named to Board of Florida’s Patriot National
Feb 3 2011 // Ernest N. Csiszar, former South Carolina insurance commissioner and head of a national insurers organization, has been named to the board of directors of Patriot National Insurance Group and Guarantee Insurance Co. Csiszar...
BB&T Promotes Owen to Director of Commercial Lines in Florida
Feb 3 2011 // BB&T Insurance Services has promoted David Owen to director of commercial lines and BB&T Insurance Services’ at its Fort Myers, Florida office. Owen will also continue as the branch manager of...
Florida Gov. Scott May Not Implement Healthcare Law
Feb 1 2011 // Florida’s Republican Governor Rick Scott signaled Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul may not be implemented in the state as a legal battle over the law appears headed to the...
State Farm Florida Seeks 28% Home Insurance Rate Hike
Feb 1 2011 // State Farm of Florida is requesting a statewide average 27.7 percent homeowners insurance rate increase citing the rising costs of sinkhole claims. The request comes as Florida lawmakers are trying to broker a deal over...
Federal Judge in Florida Rules Healthcare Law Must Be Voided
Jan 31 2011 // A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. U.S. District Judge...
Florida Businessman Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jan 31 2011 // Florida officials have charged a Duval County man with allegedly creating a fake company and fake name as part of a workers’ compensation fraud scheme. Florida CFO Jeff Atwater announced the arrest of David...
