Latest Florida Headlines
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RMS: Direct Charley Hit Losses Could Top $10 Billion
Aug 12 2004 // Risk Management Solutions (RMS), a provider of products and services for the management of catastrophe risk, on Thursday warned that insured losses in the U.S. could exceed $10 billion if Hurricane Charley follows the...
Nationwide Preps for Bonnie, Charley
Aug 11 2004 // Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. reportedly has claim representatives and agents prepared to assist customers following landfall of Tropical Storm Bonnie or Hurricane Charley. “Claims specialists will be positioned in...
Fla. DFS Honored by Trade Group for Online Database
Aug 11 2004 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Workers’ Compensation received top honors from an international trade group that assists national, state and local governments in overseeing...
Florida Gov. Bush Participates in Pensacola Discussion on HSAs
Aug 9 2004 // Gov. Jeb Bush and Floridians for Health Care Choices hosted a town hall meeting recently to provide an opportunity for federal and state healthcare experts to educate employers and employees on the benefits of Health...
Fla. CFO Warns Against Bogus Insurance Offers
Aug 5 2004 // At least 150 pregnant women were reportedly lured into buying bogus health insurance by a man not even licensed to sell insurance, prompting Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher to issue a renewed warning...
Fitch Reports Fla. Hurricane CAT Fund Upgraded
Aug 4 2004 // The authorized bonding program of the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund (FHCF) has been upgraded to ‘AA’ from ‘A+’. The FHCF provides reinsurance coverage of up to $15 billion per hurricane season,...
Fla. CFO Appoints Burgess as Consumer Advocate
Aug 3 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that he has re-appointed Steve Burgess as the state’s insurance consumer advocate. Burgess, who served as the state’s first insurance consumer...
Fla. Employer of Killed, Injured Workers Ordered to Halt Work Actions
Aug 2 2004 // The employer of two workers killed and at least three who were injured last month in a construction accident on a Hobe Sound work site has been ordered to cease all business operations in Florida. The order was issued...
PCI Appoints McKay as Federal Affairs Director
Jul 29 2004 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) announced that Benjamin J. McKay III, former chief of staff for U.S. Representative Katherine Harris (R-FL), will serve as the new director of federal affairs in...
Florida Sen. Nelson Unveils Measure to Reduce Hurricane Losses
Jul 27 2004 // U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, who helped rebuild the state’s insurance market following Hurricane Andrew, has unveiled legislation aimed at reducing the loss of life and property caused by hurricanes, tornadoes...
Fla. Sen. Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions for Sunshine State
Jul 23 2004 // Bill Nelson Florida Senator As his bio notes growing up as a child, Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
Florida Senator Bill Nelson Continues to Fly New Missions
Jul 19 2004 // Flying New Missions Bill Nelson As his bio notes, as a child Florida Senator Bill Nelson never imagined that one day he would both catapult into space from a NASA launch site just miles from his grandfather’s...
FLORIDA RESPONDS TO PIA REQUEST TO PROTECT SOLDIERS:
Jul 19 2004 // Florida officials are responding to a call by the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida (PIA) making it clear that no insurance company should deny auto coverage to U.S. Armed Forces personnel, or raise their rates,...
FAIA 100th Conference Serves Up Banner Century, Honors Past Leaders
Jul 19 2004 // Orlando – From Capt. Scott O’Grady who survived six days in hostile territory after his F-16 was shot down enforcing the no-fly zone over Bosnia. To Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America’s...
Fla. Fire Marshal’s Office, Alliance Hand Out 300 Free Smoke Alarms to Lynn Haven
Jul 16 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer and State Fire Marshal Tom Gallagher joined the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes-FLASH Inc. on Friday in Lynn Haven to deliver 300 smoke alarms. The giveaway is part of an ongoing,...
Fla. Gov. Participates in Pensacola Meeting As Part of Discussion on HSA’s
Jul 16 2004 // Gov. Jeb Bush and Floridians for Health Care Choices hosted a town hall meeting on Thursday to provide an opportunity for federal and state healthcare experts to educate employers and employees on the benefits of Health...
WCRI: Fla. Workers’ Comp Medical Payments Per Claim Grow Due to Increasing Costs in Hospital Services
Jul 16 2004 // The average medical payment per workers’ compensation claim in Florida rose significantly in the most recent period studied, in large part due to the increasing costs of hospital services and treatments by physicians...
Fla. DFS Fines Workers’ Comp Carriers, Self-Insured Plans More than $875,000 for Violations
Jul 13 2004 // The Florida Department of Financial Services has fined 31 providers of workers’ compensation coverage a total of more than $875,000 for failing to fully comply with Florida law in administering workers’ comp...
Fla. Contractor Pleads Guilty to Grand Theft
Jul 12 2004 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist announced that White Construction Company, a major road builder headquartered in Chiefland, Fla., has pled guilty to six counts of Grand Theft. As a result of the plea agreement,...
QualSure Obtains Approval from Fla. OIR to Acquire Sunshine State Insurance Co.
Jul 8 2004 // John Lombardo, chairman of the Board of Directors of QualSure Holding Corp., the parent Company of QualSure Insurance Corp. and QualSure Underwriting Agencies Inc., announced that a firm agreement has been reached by...
