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If it Looks Like an AOB, it Is One, Florida Appeals Court Decides in Kidwell Case
Sep 21 2022 // A Florida insurance company has landed another blow against one of the industry’s most active opponents, after an appeals court upheld the dismissal of a breach-of-contract lawsuit brought by an assigned...
Trial Lawyers Back Republican in Florida House Race, Insurers Favor Democrat
Sep 20 2022 // In a twist of fate and a sign of the times, some Florida business groups are backing the Democrat in a state House race in the Tampa area, while trial lawyers are putting their weight behind the Republican challenger. The...
Debate Deepens After Florida OIR Seeks to Raise Citizens’ Coverage Limit on Homes
Sep 19 2022 // Recent developments have sparked new debate about the role that Citizens Property Insurance Corp. should play in Florida’s rapidly shifting property insurance market, with potential changes that could affect agents,...
Tropical Storm to Brush Puerto Rico Before Turning North, East of Florida
Sep 16 2022 // Tropical Storm Fiona, the season’s sixth named storm, was expected to graze Puerto Rico before turning north and staying east of Florida, and forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center issued tropical storm...
AMBest Report Shows Florida Insurers Far Out of Line on Reinsurance Dependency
Sep 15 2022 // Mango Questions State-Run Ratings Agency Idea Florida-domiciled property carriers are extremely reliant on the reinsurance market, making them vulnerable to coming price hikes, a just-released report from the AM Best...
Misrepresentation by Insured? It’s Complicated, Florida Appeals Court Rules
Sep 14 2022 // Proving that an insured misrepresented the extent of damage from a storm may have just become a little more complicated for Florida insurance companies. Florida’s 5th District Court of Appeals last week reversed a...
How Fraud Probe for Florida’s Guarantee Insurance Led to Payroll, Tax Convictions
Sep 14 2022 // The name Guarantee Insurance is not one that is likely to be recalled with fondness by many Floridians. The workers’ compensation carrier in 2017 was declared insolvent, a rarity in what is one of the most profitable...
Florida Butt-Lift Doctor Banned from Surgery After Second Patient Dies at Clinic
Sep 12 2022 // A second patient has died after surgery at a Brazilian butt-lift clinic in south Florida, and the state medical board has banned a surgeon there from performing the procedures. The Miami Herald reported that Dr. John...
Biz Moves: King Insurance Acquires Two More Agencies in Florida
Sep 12 2022 // King Insurance, a rapidly expanding brokerage based in Gainesville, Florida, has announced the acquisitions of two more Florida agencies. King officials said that it bought Tallahassee-based Brad Burns Insurance, which...
Former Florida Commissioner Warns Officials Not to Shoot the Demotech Messenger
Sep 9 2022 // Former Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty is criticizing current state regulators over their recent digs at the Demotech financial rating firm, after Demotech warned it would downgrade more than a dozen property...
Crist Again Slams DeSantis’ Handling of Florida Insurance Debacle
Sep 8 2022 // U.S. Rep. Charlie Crist, a Democratic candidate for governor of Florida, has continued to needle incumbent Gov. Ron DeSantis for his handling of the property insurance crisis in the state. At a press conference Wednesday,...
Teen Dies After Florida Keys Boating Accident that Injured 11
Sep 6 2022 // A boating accident in the Florida Keys left a teenager dead and 10 other people injured, according to local media. The Miami Herald reported that Lucy Fernandez, a 17-year-old high school senior from Miami, was among 14...
Debate Deepens After Florida OIR Seeks to Raise Citizens’ Coverage Limit on Homes
Sep 6 2022 // Recent developments have sparked new debate about the role that Citizens Property Insurance Corp. should play in Florida’s rapidly shifting property insurance market, with potential changes that could affect agents,...
Lawyers to Share $70M in Surfside, Florida Condo Collapse Settlement
Sep 1 2022 // Lawyers who secured a $1.1 billion settlement in the deadly collapse last year of a beachfront Florida condominium building were awarded more than $70 million in fees Monday by a judge. The total was less than the...
Attorney for a Top Florida Insurance Law Firm Disbarred After Forgeries, Misconduct
Sep 1 2022 // A former attorney with one of Florida’s top insurance defense firms has been disbarred after the Bar said she engaged in repeated acts of neglect, deception and forgery. Erika Lynn Muller, until recently a partner...
Crossing the Rubicon (Again): New Arrests in Florida Insurance Schemes
Sep 1 2022 // Those familiar with insurance fraud schemes in Florida will remember Operation Rubicon. That was the year-long investigation by Miami-Dade and Florida authorities into an alleged property insurance fraud scheme that...
Florida Judge Dismisses Contractors’ Challenge to SB 2D’s Attorney Fee Limits
Aug 31 2022 // A Florida judge has thrown out a constitutional challenge to an insurance litigation reform law, noting that the state officials named in the lawsuit were not the correct defendants. Plaintiffs Restoration Association of...
Comp Insurers Object to Florida Hospital Payments Set at 2x U.S. Average
Aug 31 2022 // The Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation appears to be intent on pushing the ball across the goal line on a long-awaited revision to hospital reimbursement rules, despite concern from insurers that some rates...
Florida Staffing Firm Head Sentenced to 24 Years for Off-Book Labor Scheme
Aug 30 2022 // From 2007 to 2021, federal prosecutors said, Mykhaylo Chugay and associates operated a number of shady staffing companies in south Florida that avoided paying more than $25 million in federal taxes. Last week, a federal...
Biz Moves: PCF Acquires Apple Insurance in Florida
Aug 30 2022 // PCF Insurance Services (PCF), a brokerage headquartered in Lehi, Utah, has acquired Florida-based insurance broker Apple Insurance and Financial Services. Apple Insurance is an individual health and Medicare insurance...
