Latest Florida Headlines
All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fla. Apprehends 28 in Fake Insurance Card Scheme
May 15 2006 // Twenty-eight individuals have been arrested in Florida for manufacturing, selling or buying fraudulent insurance binders and insurance identification cards according to Tom Gallagher, Florida’s chief financial...
Court Petitioned to Liquidate Poe Insurance Subsidiaries
May 10 2006 // The Leon County Circuit Court has been petitioned by Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CFO, to order the Poe Financial Group’s subsidiaries, Southern Family, Atlantic Preferred and Florida Preferred, into liquidation....
American Insurance Assoc. Calls Fla. Measure ‘Balanced’
May 9 2006 // As expected, the state’s troubled property insurance market dominated the just-concluded session of the Florida Legislature, according to the American Insurance Association in Atlanta. The session concluded Friday...
Fla. Passed More Staged Accident Reforms This Year Than Any State
May 9 2006 // Florida’s Legislature responded to a pandemic of staged accidents by passing the most-sweeping fraud reforms of any state this year, according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. “The legislature realizes...
FLA. PROPERTY BILL ADVANCES
May 8 2006 // A rapid 25 percent cash buildup for the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and the establishment of a hurricane mitigation endowment fund to allow homeowners to obtain no-interest loans to implement hurricane mitigation...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 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...
Gallagher praises legislators’ action on rate relief
May 8 2006 // When the Flordia House and Senate appropriation committees set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to provide insurance rate relief for the state’s homeowners, both the consumer and the insurance industry scored a...
People and Places
May 8 2006 // Carol Sipe has been named vice president and general manager of operations; Francis “Fran” Graham has been named Southeast director of sales; and Chris Neyrey has been named Southwest director of sales and...
Judge orders Southern Family rehabilitation
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation. To ensure the...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 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 that they are designed to...
People
May 8 2006 // Carol Sipe has been named vice president and general manager of operations; Francis “Fran” Graham has been named Southeast director of sales; and Chris Neyrey has been named Southwest director of sales and...
Judge orders Southern Family rehabilitation
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation. To ensure the...
Gallagher praises legislators’ action on rate relief
May 8 2006 // When the Flordia House and Senate appropriation committees set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to provide insurance rate relief for the state’s homeowners, both the consumer and the insurance industry scored a...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 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 that they are designed to...
Fla. property bill advances
May 8 2006 // A rapid 25 percent cash buildup for the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and the establishment of a hurricane mitigation endowment fund to allow homeowners to obtain no-interest loans to implement hurricane mitigation...
Fla. SB 1596, HB 561 Tighten Grip on Insurance Fraud
May 5 2006 // Passage by Florida’s Legislature of Senate Bill 1596 and House Bill 561, sponsored by Sen J.D. Alexander and Rep. David Rivera, Florida’s Legislature has tightened the grip on insurance fraud artists who steal...
Agents’ Group Answers Nine Questions About Poe Financial, Its Subsidiaries
May 5 2006 // Nine questions and answers about the receivership and status of Poe Financial Corp.’s subsidiaries Southern Family and Atlantic Preferred have been provided to Professional Insurance Agents of Florida members who...
Insurers Assoc. Pushes Fla. Legislators for Property Market Reforms
May 5 2006 // On the final day of the Florida legislative session, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is encouraging legislators to make a commitment to create a healthy and competitive insurance marketplace, which is...
Research Center to Unveil New Hurricane Loss Prediction Model
May 5 2006 // The first public model to project hurricane losses for the State of Florida has been completed by the International Hurricane Research Center in Miami, Fla. The new model already has produced excellent figures on Hurricane...
Fla. Calls for Federal Insurance Subsidy
May 4 2006 // The insurance crisis is not a Florida problem, it is a national problem that demands national solutions, Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO, said after applauding the Florida Legislature for calling on Congress to create a...
