Latest Florida Headlines
All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NATIONWIDE CUTS BACK
Sep 19 2005 // The Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company has announced it is taking steps to reduce its property exposure in Florida. After these reductions, Nationwide said it will continue to serve more than 570,000 policies in Florida,...
Associations educate agents
Sep 19 2005 // As the Hispanic population surpasses 40 million with a combined purchasing power of more than $700 million, the insurance industry is keeping its eye on this ever-growing market segment. Hispanic agents and Latin agent...
Citizens COO Allegedly Took Kickback; Florida CFO Gallagher Launches Investigation
Sep 15 2005 // Florida’s CFO Tom Gallagher announced on Thursday afternoon he has launched a fraud investigation into allegations by Universal Risk Insurance Services of Houston, Texas, that R. Paul Hulsebusch, chief operating...
Industry Opens Hurricane Insurance Information Center
Sep 15 2005 // In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. insurance industry has established the Hurricane Insurance Information Center (HIIC) in Jackson, Mississippi. Additional centers will be opened in other Gulf Coast...
Ricker Tells CPCU: Citizens Provides A ‘Safety Net’ for Uninsurable Property Owners
Sep 14 2005 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. provides a safety net for the ever-increasing number of Florida’s uninsurable property owners who can not find insurance, Bob Ricker, Citizens president, told members of the Florida...
21st Century Holdings Sub Reports 2,100 Claims to Date from Katrina’s Visit to Florida
Sep 13 2005 // Florida-based 21st Century Holding Company announced that its subsidiary, Federated National Insurance Company, has received approximately 2,100 claims reported to date in Florida for damages caused by Hurricane Katrina....
Survey Says Panhandle Homeowners Want Wind-Borne Debris Protection
Sep 13 2005 // A large majority of homeowners in the Florida Panhandle, where a special exemption to the state’s building code allows homes to be built without wind-borne debris protection, say they want the same construction...
FAIA Dispatching CAT Team on Monday to Mississippi
Sep 9 2005 // A Florida Association of Independent Agents catastrophe team will be dispatched to Mississippi on Monday to assist the Mississippi Association of Independent Agents. FAIA offered assistance to the Mississippi association...
New Report Warns of Rising Threat to Industry from Climate Change
Sep 8 2005 // Hurricane Katrina is a reminder to the U.S. insurance industry, companies, governments and the general public that all are at risk from escalating losses from hurricanes and other weather-related events due to climate...
Ophelia Eyes Florida Coast; Pair of Directions Possible
Sep 8 2005 // Despite the loss of 11 lives, residents of Florida breathed a sigh of relief late last month when Hurricane Katrina moved away from the Sunshine State with less damage than last year’s Big Four. Folks in Florida...
NHC Watching Tropical Storm Ophelia
Sep 7 2005 // Miami’s National Hurricane Center is currently tracking three tropical storms in the Atlantic, Ophelia, Maria and Nate. Only the first one poses any potential threat to the U.S. mainland. At 5 a.m. EDT, The center of...
Fla. Insurance Commissioner Supports National CAT Fund
Sep 7 2005 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said with the specter of projected hurricane losses from Hurricane Katrina topping $25 billion, he is intensifying his support for creating a national catastrophe fund and a...
Sirius Settles With Fla. Office of Insurance Regulation
Sep 7 2005 // Sirius International Insurance Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, has been barred by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation from doing business in Florida until it meets all of the...
Citizens Stops Writing New Policies; Tropical Storm Orphelia Moving N.W. Toward Fla.
Sep 6 2005 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp., has stopped writing new policies or taking changes on exhisting policies in Florida due to the approach of Tropical Storm Orphelia. The tropical storm warning for Ophelia was issued at 11...
Fla. S.B. 1662 Provisions Now in Effect
Sep 5 2005 // Six new provisions in Senate Bill 1662 have gone into effect in Florida and provide the Office of Insurance Regulation and the Department of Financial Services with new powers to crack down on fraudulent insurance...
Another Round Begins
Sep 5 2005 // Well, if the old saying, “Time flies when you are having fun,” is true, I must have had a lot of fun! It’s hard to believe I joined Insurance Journal over a year ago–and am about to start attending...
People – Southeast
Sep 5 2005 // Bob Maeyama Ronald L. Alexander has been named president and managing partner of Willis Group Holdings Ltd.’s Tennessee operations in Knoxville, Tenn. Alexander was formerly executive vice president and chief...
Insurers Post Special Toll-Free Numbers to Help Katrina Victims
Sep 5 2005 // At press time, forecasters were predicting insured losses from Hurricane Katrina–which made landfall 45 miles west of Biloxi, Miss., and 35 miles east of New Orleans on Aug. 29–would be in the $10 billion to...
Fla. S.B. 1662 Provisions Now in Effect
Sep 5 2005 // Six new provisions in Senate Bill 1662 have gone into effect in Florida and provide the Office of Insurance regulation and the Department of Financial Services with new powers to crack down on fraudulent insurance...
People
Sep 5 2005 // Ronald L. Alexander has been named president and managing partner of Willis Group Holdings Ltd.’s Tennessee operations in Knoxville, Tenn. Alexander was formerly executive vice president and chief operating officer...
