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Attorneys in Florida Condo Collapse Settlement Seek $100 Million in Fees
Jun 15 2022 // Attorneys who worked to secure settlements topping $1 billion in the collapse of a beachfront Florida condominium building in which 98 people died are requesting about $100 million in fees and costs, according to a new...
Florida’s Litigated Claims Dropped 14% from April to May for Largest Carriers
Jun 15 2022 // Florida’s 16 largest property insurers reported a 14% average decrease in litigated claims in May, the first drop in the numbers since February. CaseGlide, a litigation management software provider that tracks claims...
Three Nominees for Florida Supreme Court Appear to Lean the Insurer Way
Jun 15 2022 // Some Florida insurers may feel like they didn’t score a home run with the recent property insurance reform measures signed into law in May. But they could soon see a friendly umpire on the state Supreme Court, likely...
Florida Plaintiffs Claim Victory After Dropping Suit to Block SB 76’s Solicitation Ban
Jun 14 2022 // When the Florida Legislature approved Senate Bill 76 last year, with its restrictions on homeowner solicitation by roofing contractors, insurers saw it as a major blow against runaway fraudulent and exaggerated roof...
King Brokerage Acquires Wurzel Agency in Florida
Jun 13 2022 // King Insurance, a brokerage based in Gainesville, Florida, has continued its steady expansion with the acquistion of The Wurzel Agency in Oveido, Florida. Wurzel has specialized in property and casualty personal lines and...
Florida Must Pay $1.2 Million for Destroying Sickened Citrus Trees, Jury Finds
Jun 10 2022 // The owner of a commercial nursery has won a $1.2 million judgment against the Florida Department of Agriculture in the latest verdict against the state agency for destroying citrus trees in the 2000s during an attempt to...
Mother Charged After Florida Toddler Fatally Shoots Father
Jun 9 2022 // A 2-year old boy fatally shot his father in an accident after finding a gun, and the boy’s mother is now facing criminal charges, authorities in Florida said Monday. Reggie Mabry, 26, was fatally shot late last month...
Keystone Agency Partners Takes Majority Stake in Large Florida Agency
Jun 8 2022 // Keystone Agency Partners, a brokerage that continues to acquire agencies around the country, said it has taken a majority stake in Keyes Coverage, an insurance agency based in Tamarac, Florida. Keyes, one of the largest...
Audit Faults Florida’s COVID Data Tracking Efforts in 2020
Jun 8 2022 // A report from Florida’s auditor general appears to support what some officials said in 2020 – that the state’s COVID-19 data was inaccurate and incomplete during the first nine months of the pandemic, making...
Lydecker to Replace Dunbar at Florida’s Citizens’ Board; Murray Moves to Seaglass
Jun 7 2022 // A Florida insurance executive will soon join the board of governors for Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Charlie Lydecker was formerly president of the retail division of Brown & Brown Insurance, one of the largest...
Homeowners Can Record Insurance Company Adjusters’ Inspections, Florida Court Says
Jun 7 2022 // Homeowners and public adjusters may now feel a little more emboldened to record an insurance adjuster’s inspection of a home, after a Florida appeals court ruled in favor of the practice last week – the third such...
Pro Golfer Killed in Florida Car Accident
Jun 3 2022 // Professional golfer Bart Bryant, who once beat Tiger Woods by six shots to collect the biggest paycheck of his career, was killed when a truck slammed into his SUV while he was stopped in a line of vehicles on a central...
RoofClaim.com Fires Up Florida Insurers with Roof Financing Plan
Jun 3 2022 // RoofClaim.com, a name that has caused heartburn in the Florida insurance industry in recent years, announced that it is now offering no-money-down roof financing in the wake of insurance rate hikes, insurer insolvencies...
Parasailing Death in Florida Keys Raises Questions about Captain Cutting Line
Jun 2 2022 // A woman from Illinois was killed and two young children were injured when a sudden storm prompted a boat captain to cut loose their parasail, which then dragged them across the ocean and slammed them into a bridge in the...
Workpartners Expands Workers’ Comp Program to Florida
Jun 2 2022 // Workpartners, which describes itself as a data-informed, human capital-management firm, has expanded its workers’ compensation program into Florida, the company said this week. The firm, part of the University of...
Universal Completes $696M Reinsurance Program; Five Others in Florida May Not
Jun 1 2022 // As many as five Florida property insurers are unlikely to be able to secure adequate reinsurance by today’s deadline, but the state’s largest carrier is not one of them. Universal Insurance Holdings announced...
Florida Contractor Group Already Files Suit Challenging New AOB Fee Restrictions
Jun 1 2022 // A group of contractors wasted little time in challenging the constitutionality of a law approved at the Florida Legislature’s special session last week, one the restoration companies argue singles them out and...
People’s Trust, Southern Fidelity Stop Writing New Business in Florida
May 27 2022 // Two more property insurers, including two of Florida’s larger carriers, did not wait around to see what help the just-concluded special session of the Legislature may provide, and have stopped new business in the...
High-Speed Lawmaking: Florida Governor Quickly Signs Insurance, Condo Reform Bills
May 27 2022 // Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed property insurance and condominium maintenance reform legislation into law Thursday, putting an exclamation point on a whirlwind of lawmaking that began just a week ago when the bills were...
Florida Legislature Wraps Early with Insurance Fund, Roof and Condo Bills
May 26 2022 // By Wednesday morning, it was all over except for the speeches. The five-day special session on the insurance crisis turned into just three days, and without seeing adoption of a single significant modification to two bills...
