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Employers Holdings Amends Merger Deal with AmCOMP over Florida Refunds
Aug 29 2008 // Reno, Nev.-based Employers Holdings Inc. has agreed to an amendment to the terms of its pending acquisition of AmCOMP Inc. that accounts for a regulatory ruling requiring policyholder refunds in Florida. In connection with...
Florida-based IBSL Hires Page as Marketing Underwriter
Aug 28 2008 // Steven A. Page joined Lakeland, Florida-based IBSL (formerly known as International Brokerage & Surplus Lines) as a marketing underwriter for non-trucking lines. Page comes to IBSL from Brown & Brown, where he...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rates to Drop For 6th Consecutive Year
Aug 27 2008 // The latest workers’ compensation filing in Florida calls for an overall average rate decrease of 14.1 percent statewide, which would produce a savings of more than $465 million for Florida employers, according to...
Update: Florida Claims Continue to Mount in Fay’s Wake
Aug 27 2008 // With Tropical Storm Gustav on deck in the Caribbean, insurance claims from Tropical Storm Fay continue to mount while the storm’s rain producing potential manifests throughout Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. The...
Florida Officials Say Fay’s Toll up to 10 People
Aug 24 2008 // Florida authorities say two more people have been killed by Tropical Storm Fay, raising the storm’s death toll to 10. Florida Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey and Gov. Charlie Crist updated the...
Update: Largest Florida Insurers Report Homeowners, Auto and Flood Claims
Aug 24 2008 // Insurers continue to tally claims from Tropical Storm Fay after its fourth landfall occurred on the Panhandle. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation compiled and released the latest numbers from some of the...
Florida Homeowners and Auto Owners File Fay Claims
Aug 23 2008 // The claims are piling up in Florida as Tropical Storm Fay is knocking on the Panhandle’s door. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation compiled and released the latest numbers from some of the state’s...
Florida Insurance Regulator: Hurricane Deductible Does Not Apply
Aug 22 2008 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty issued an advisory to remind Florida consumers and authorized insurers that the hurricane deductible of their homeowner’s policy does not apply at this time —...
Update: Tropical Storm Fay Hangs on to Status, Stays in Florida
Aug 22 2008 // Tropical Storm Fay continues slowly westward across the northern Florida peninsula while tropical storm warnings remain in effect throughout the region, into the panhandle and north through Georgia to the South Carolina...
Study Finds Economic Costs of Federal Cat Legislation Burdensome
Aug 22 2008 // Natural catastrophe legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and pending in the U.S. Senate would create a multi-billion dollar burden on taxpayers in at least 20 states, according to a new study released...
Florida Gov. Requests Federal State of Emergency as Fay Pours Down
Aug 21 2008 // As Tropical Storm Fay remains relatively static over northeast Florida, a tropical storm warning remains in effect from Fort pierce, Florida to the border between Georgia and South Carolina. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist...
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Aug 21 2008 // The Chubb Corp. has made four executives appointments: John J. Degnan has been named vice chairman and chief operating officer. Degnan, a former attorney general of New Jersey who joined Chubb nearly 18 years ago, was...
Liability Coverage Demand Seen Rising with Florida Elderly Services Crunch
Aug 21 2008 // Dramatic growth in assisted living and home care may increase professional and general liability risks.. Florida faces a crisis in meeting the demand for aging services over the next 22 years as the population aged 85 and...
5 Florida Regions Among Top 10 Tornado-Prone
Aug 21 2008 // The rural area to the northeast of Denver, Colo., tops the nation when it comes to regions most prone to tornados, according to Boston-based CDS Business Mapping LLC, an online hazard mapping firm. The top 10 most tornado...
Colorado Ranks High on Tornado Charts
Aug 21 2008 // Tornadoes are usually classified using the Fujita Tornado Scale, or FScale developed by Dr. T. Theodore Fujita at the University of Chicago in 1971, CDS said. Using FScale classifications, the study looked at whether there...
Florida Insurance Salesman’s Shoe Found in Stomach of Slain Bear
Aug 20 2008 // Tennessee authorities cut open a slain bear and found a Florida man’s shoe lost while fighting off a bear that attacked his 8-year-old son in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The footwear was discovered in...
Fay Sits on Florida, Brings Heavy Rainfall
Aug 20 2008 // As of 8 a.m. the National Weather Service said Tropical Storm Fay was centered near Cape Canaveral and headed slowly in a northerly direction. A tropical storm warning remains in effect from north of Jupiter Inlet,...
Florida’s Citizens Closes Emergency Operations Center in Naples
Aug 20 2008 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s emergency operations center located in Naples, Florida will close at 6 p.m. today (Aug. 20). Policyholders who may have sustained damage from Tropical Storm Fay are advised to make...
Tropical Storm Fay Reaches Florida, Fails to Reach Hurricane Status
Aug 19 2008 // Tropical Storm Fay remained at tropical storm status when it arrived on Florida’s mainland. As of 8 a.m. EDT (Aug. 19), Fay’s center was north of Immokalee and about 20 miles south of LaBelle and moving toward...
Risk Modeler: Tropical Storm Fay Turned East Sooner than Expected
Aug 19 2008 // According to catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, Tropical Storm Fay took an eastward turn sooner than expected and made landfall at Cape Romano, Florida, on Aug. 19 at around 5 a.m. EDT. “Landfall was along...
