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Fla. Searches for New Beginning Amid Continuing Insurance, Climate Woes
Apr 5 2007 // Canceled insurance policies and skyrocketing rates plaguing the state since the active hurricane seasons of 2004 and 2005 are a premonition of Florida’s future under a warming climate, an insurance expert told the...
Florida Climate Change Web Site Unveiled, “Conversations” Begin
Apr 3 2007 // In anticipation of this week’s “Conversations on Climate Change,” Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink and Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Charles Bronson unveiled an official Web...
Florida Officials: Education, Job in Rating ‘Unintentionally’ Harms Minorities
Apr 3 2007 // Results of a report on the factoring of occupation and education for underwriting and rating of auto insurance policies show that while the practices “unintentionally harm minorities and low-income individuals”...
Insurers Blast Florida Report on Education, Job Rating
Apr 3 2007 // Florida insurers are hammering a Florida Office of Insurance Regulation report on the use of occupation and education for rating of auto insurance policies, calling the report’s claims that the use of these factors...
Willis Re Premium Review Finds ‘Few Surprises’
Apr 3 2007 // Willis Group Holdings has released its reinsurance review of the marketplace for the April 1, 2007 renewal entitled “Few Surprises.” The report reaches the same conclusions as those contained in Aon Global...
Mitigation Grants Showing up in Florida Mailboxes
Apr 2 2007 // The My Safe Florida Home program mailed 10 mitigation grants totaling almost $30,000 to Florida homeowners from five counties who hardened their homes against hurricanes per the program stipulations, according to...
Aon Re Global Study Finds Reinsurance Rates ‘Flat to Lower’
Apr 2 2007 // Aon Re Global’s analysis of reinsurance rates found premiums for “personal lines, standard commercial lines and complex commercial lines,” are “likely to be flat to lower during mid-year renewals of...
Florida Weighs Whether to Continue Personal Injury Coverage
Mar 29 2007 // After her car accident, Sarah Capps suffered from a sore shoulder and back. What she thought were common pains turned out to be six herniated discs. Were it not for the protective medical coverage that every Florida car...
Fla. Bipartisan Spirit May be Cracking Over Property Taxes in House
Mar 28 2007 // The bipartisan spirit that took hold of the Florida Legislature earlier this year in the effort to lower homeowner insurance rates is showing signs of cracking in the House over property tax relief. A divide has developed...
Fla. Policyholders of Failed Vanguard Given Policy Options
Mar 28 2007 // Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry P. Lewis approved an order allowing Royal Palm Insurance Co. and Security First Insurance Co. to offer new coverage to the 57,000 homeowner policyholders currently with Maitland-based...
News Currents
Mar 26 2007 // Restoration work continues after Florida tornadoes With the final death toll standing at 20, the tornadoes that slammed central Florida on Feb. 2 have been dubbed “Ground-Hog Day Tornadoes” by The Florida State...
Washington warming to national disaster plan idea
Mar 26 2007 // Sen. Dodd says hurricane and flood disasters are not just a local issue, but a national one A proposal for a national disaster plan to backup private hurricane and flood insurance markets appears to be gaining momentum in...
Associated Industries of Fla. Cautions Against Citizens’ Expansion
Mar 26 2007 // Associated Industries of Florida is urging the state’s insurance officials and budget leaders to proceed with caution as they work toward the overhauling of Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Citizens plans to expand...
New insurer caters PUREly to Florida’s wealthiest residents
Mar 26 2007 // Florida’s wealthy residents have a new personal lines insurer promising to save them money on premiums. The company will sell property/casualty insurance for high value homes, cars, jewelry, art, and personal excess...
News Currents
Mar 26 2007 // Washington warming to national disaster plan idea Sen. Dodd says hurricane and flood disasters are not just a local issue, but a national one A proposal for a national disaster plan to backup private hurricane and flood...
U.S. Study Finds Majority of Medical Malpractice Claims Close Without Payment
Mar 26 2007 // The majority of medical malpractice claims in a study of seven states were closed without any compensation paid to those claiming a medical injury, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)...
Restoration work continues after Florida tornadoes
Mar 26 2007 // With the final death toll standing at 20, the tornadoes that slammed central Florida on Feb. 2 have been dubbed “Ground-Hog Day Tornadoes” by The Florida State Emergency Response Team. The groundhogs in Sumter,...
New Medical Malpractice Market Opens for Florida Nurses
Mar 23 2007 // Sophia Palmer Nurses Risk Retention Group, Inc. will offer malpractice insurance to Florida nurses in partnership with the Florida Nurses Association. The newly formed Risk Retention Group was capitalized by Ponce de Leon...
Fla. Catastrophe Fund Changes Prompt Citizens Refunds
Mar 19 2007 // Rate decreases and in some cases, refunds, are on the way for almost 1.2 million Florida policyholders insured by Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The reduced rates are the result of expanded access to coverage from the...
Washington Warming to National Disaster Plan Idea
Mar 16 2007 // A proposal for a national disaster plan to backup private hurricane and flood insurance markets appears to be gaining momentum in Washington. This week, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the House Financial Services...
