Latest Florida Headlines
All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
IIABA Reports Now is the Time For National Agent-Broker Licensing Reform
Oct 7 2003 // A U.S. district court’s decision that two Florida laws denying equal treatment to nonresident Florida-licensed agents are unconstitutional will result in an additional breakdown of artificial barriers to licensing...
Orlando Businesswoman Named VP of PIA of Fla.
Oct 7 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Florida (PIA) announced that Lorene “Lori” Williams was elected vice president of the 600-member trade association. Williams, president and co-owner of J. Meyers Insurance...
MedPro to Issue Non-Renewal Notices to Fla. Physicians
Oct 6 2003 // GE Commercial Insurance’s Medical Protective (MedPro) announced it reportedly has been forced to issue non-renewal notices to physicians whose medical malpractice insurance policies expire in January 2004. MedPro had...
Fla. Announces New Strategy for Fighting Auto Fraud
Oct 6 2003 // Continuing efforts to put an end to reported spiraling auto insurance premiums by combating fraud, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher recently joined Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle...
PIA of Fla. Installs McMahon as President
Oct 2 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Florida (PIA) announced that Donald McMahon III has been elected president of the 600-member trade association. McMahon is the president and owner of McMahon-Hadder Insurance Inc. in...
Fla. JUA Agrees to Finance PIP Fraud Prosecutor
Sep 30 2003 // In a move that will reportedly help insurers fight auto fraud in the state, the Florida Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) board recently agreed to finance a prosecutor in the Dade County State’s Attorney’s...
Fla. Insurers Reportedly Should Expect Tough Enforcement of Credit Law
Sep 30 2003 // Insurance companies using credit-based insurance scores to underwrite and rate insurance coverage in Florida should reportedly be aware that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) will be taking a tough stance on...
Florida Businessman Charged with Theft
Sep 25 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that a former owner and director of Mobile Home Division of America Inc. was charged with felony grand theft in relation to allegations that he...
NAMIC, Progressive Join FIC
Sep 22 2003 // The Florida Insurance Council announced that Progressive and the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies have recently joined the Florida-based insurance trade association. “This is one of the most...
PIA of Florida Names Pappas Best Company Rep
Sep 18 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Florida (PIA) honored Andy Pappas, assistant vice president of Poe Financial Group Inc., with the association’s valued Company Representative of the Year Award. PIA announced the...
Director of Unlicensed Company Arrested in Florida
Sep 17 2003 // The Florida Department of Financial Services announced that the director of Hollywood-based Native Assurance Company has been charged with acting as an insurer without a certificate of authority. Native Assurance was...
Fla. Agents Charged with Selling Millions of Dollars in Unregistered Securities
Sep 9 2003 // Four southwest Florida insurance agents are facing several felony counts for their alleged sale of millions of dollars in unregistered securities to investors throughout Florida and several states. The charges are the...
Florida Launches WC Policy Tracking Database
Sep 8 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced a new online database designed to send automatic electronic notification to primary contractors who sign up for the service concerning changes to a...
Florida OIR Releases Final Order on State Farm Mold Filing
Sep 8 2003 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) issued its final order regarding three homeowner policy endorsements that sought to exclude mold damage resulting from a covered peril. State Farm Florida Insurance Company...
Playing Politics with the Industry
Sep 8 2003 // You are probably wondering just what in the world Florida Governor Jeb Bush is doing on the cover of the current issue of Insurance Journal. The editorial department has talked numerous times in recent months about...
Gov. Bush Sees Hope for Industry in Florida and Nationally
Sep 8 2003 // From medical malpractice to workers’ compensation, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush {R} has been working with insurance industry leaders to solve problems in the Sunshine State during his two terms in office. The issues in...
Gov. Bush Sees Hope for Industry in Florida and Nationally
Sep 8 2003 // From medical malpractice to workers’ compensation, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) has been working with insurance industry leaders to solve problems in the Sunshine State during his two terms in office. The issues in...
Pair Arrested for PIP Fraud Scheme in Florida
Aug 26 2003 // A Hialeah, Fla. clinic owner and another individual were arrested and charged with one count each of racketeering, organized scheme to defraud, insurance fraud and grand theft following a joint investigation conducted by...
Florida Agent May Have License Pulled
Aug 25 2003 // The Florida Department of Financial Services filed an administrative complaint against a Florida agent and is seeking to have his license revoked for allegedly selling bogus insurance policies to at least six businesses in...
Fla. OIR Approves Lower Workers’ Comp Rates
Aug 20 2003 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced it has approved the revised workers’ compensation rates filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance. The filing was in response to an order by OIR...
