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Fla. Dept. of Consumer Services, Poe Discuss How to Reduce Consumer Complaints
Apr 21 2006 // Florida’s Consumer Services representatives held a meeting on Friday morning with officials of the Tampa, Fla.-based Poe Insurance Group to discuss how to reduce the number of consumer complaints about the firm and...
Gallagher Praises Legislators for Acting on Rate Relief
Apr 20 2006 // When the House and Senate appropriation committees set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to provide insurance rate relief for Florida homeowners, both the consumer and the insurance industry scored a victory, according...
Grippa to Head Brown & Brown’s Daytona Beach, Fla. Retail Operation
Apr 19 2006 // Anthony M. “Tony” Grippa has been named as the new profit center manager for the Daytona Beach, Fla. retail operation of Brown & Brown Inc. He will be responsible for overseeing the company’s...
Fla. House Proposal Would Use Full Surplus to Mitigate Citizens Deficit
Apr 19 2006 // Nearly $1 billion in state tax dollars would go to offset the deficit faced by Citizens Property Insurance under an amendment approved in Tallahassee, Fla. by a House panel that would help out Florida homeowners who are...
Fugitive N.Y. Insurance Fraud ‘Princess’ Arrested
Apr 19 2006 // A Manhattan woman who posed as a Saudi Arabian princess in an insurance scam plans to return to New York following her arrest at a Florida shopping mall on a fugitive from justice warrant, authorities said. Antoinette...
Fla. Encourages Agents to Use Translated Policy Forms
Apr 19 2006 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has issued a formal notice to all insurance companies licensed in Florida, reminding them that the use of approved translated policy forms is acceptable and...
$960M in Unanticipated Fla. Revenue Could Provide Rate Relief
Apr 17 2006 // The Florida General Revenue Estimating Conference has released new estimates stating Florida is expected to receive an additional $960 million in unanticipated revenue this year and the next. This estimate is in addition...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
Apr 17 2006 // Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to justify insurance...
Risk Management
Apr 17 2006 // Call for stepped-up regulation of third-parties providing hurricane rating and credit scoring data Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the...
By Charles J. Grimsley
Apr 17 2006 // The no-fault deadline decision In 2006, Florida legislators will make the biggest decision affecting automobile insurance that any legislature has had to make in 35 years, specifically, whether to re-enact or sunset the...
Coalition supports CAT Fund bill
Apr 17 2006 // A coalition of insurance organizations, bankers, realtors and home builders are petitioning state lawmakers to support SB 98/HB 279, an effort by Sen. J. D. Alexander and Rep. Kim Berfield to protect Florida’s...
FAIA briefs agents about Florida bills, holds meetings with legislators
Apr 17 2006 // More than 120 of Florida’s independent agents who attended the March 29 and 30 Florida Independent Insurance Agents Legislative “Fly-In” heard Skip Long, Scott Johnson, Laura Pearce and Kyle Ulrich...
Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO
Apr 17 2006 // Arrests, along with laws passed in 2003 that created tougher penalties for workers’ compensation fraud, have pushed workers’ compensation premiums down for three consecutive years. Florida Fraud Fla. pursues...
Kentucky psychiatrist sentenced
Apr 17 2006 // Fraud Roundup Imposter arrested ‘playing dentist’ A Miami-Dade County man was arrested for practicing dentistry without a license and submitting fraudulent Medicaid claims, according to Florida’s Attorney...
Cheers and applause rang out from morethan 120 FAIA members the Florida Senate’s action was announced. The bill elimi
Apr 17 2006 // News Currewnts Independent agents score a victory on SB 2006 Florida Legislature repeals joint and several liability for proportionate liability Independent insurance agents scored a victory in the Florida Legislature...
Critics allege wind modelers influenced by insurers
Apr 17 2006 // News Currents Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and are designed to justify...
Critics allege hurricane risk modelers influenced by insurers
Apr 17 2006 // News Currents Risk Management Solutions, Newark, Calif., has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific, and that they...
Fla. Group Applauds Spring Legislative Proposals
Apr 14 2006 // With Spring meetings of the Florida Legislature coming to an end in Tallahassee in May, the Florida Insurance Council has applauded House and Senate leaders for proposals supporters believe will help entice capital into...
Summation of Insurance-Related Bills Speeding Through Fla. Legislature
Apr 14 2006 // With Spring meetings of the Florida Legislature coming to an end in Tallahassee in May, the Florida Insurance Council has summarized insurance-related bills now being considered in the House and Senate. Sam Miller,...
L.A. Broker Arrested for Allegedly Pocketing $381,000 in Premiums
Apr 14 2006 // A former Los Angeles insurance broker has been arrested for allegedly pocketing $381,966 in liability insurance premiums from clients. The California Department of Insurance arrested Bernard Warschaw, 78, on an extradition...
