Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida Pool Company Charged with Swindling Homeowners, Insurance Fraud
Oct 7 2021 // The South Florida owners of a swimming pool company have been charged with swindling homeowners out of almost $2 million, as well as failing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance and insurance application...
Eyebrows Raised After Universal Drops Complaint About Florida Adjusters
Oct 7 2021 // The Florida property insurance community was abuzz this week after word got out that a closely watched complaint about some public adjusters’ apparent conflicts of interest had been withdrawn. The head of...
Florida Regulators to Hold Hearing on Comp Rate Decrease
Oct 5 2021 // Florida insurance regulators are set to hold two hearings in the next three weeks to examine workers’ compensation rates and worker notification issues. On Oct. 14, the Office of Insurance Regulation will host a...
10 Years On, Florida AOB Case Goes Back to Trial Court
Oct 5 2021 // It started out as a relatively minor automobile accident a decade ago. Now, after multiple appeals and more than a million dollars spent on expert witnesses, a Florida appeals court has again remanded a State Farm...
Fungus Endorsement Outweighs Resulting Loss in Florida State Farm Case
Oct 5 2021 // A Florida appeals court has reversed a trial judge, finding that a homeowner’s State Farm policy did not cover damages from a septic tank leak because of a fungus endorsement on the policy. In State Farm Florida...
Insurers Expanding Franchises, Options in Florida
Oct 4 2021 // Two insurance companies announced expansions in Florida last week. Jacksonville-based We Insure Inc., an independent insurance franchise company, said it had opened the We Insure John Douglas Insurance agency in Panama...
Florida Policies in Limbo Over Proposed Insolvency Surcharge
Oct 4 2021 // The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association is urging insurers to hold off on sending homeowners’ policy renewals until state regulators decide if they will approve a surcharge on premiums to help cover more than $168...
Florida’s Citizens Warns of Exposure Risk as Policy Count Grows
Oct 4 2021 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. president Barry Gilway said at a board of governors meeting that the organization is considering “all ideas to reduce exposure” as policies mount by the thousands. Gilway said...
JZZ Tech Acquires Florida-Based Beacon Insurance Solutions
Oct 1 2021 // JZZ Technologies Inc. has acquired Florida-based Beacon Insurance Solutions, part of its continuing effort to reach the senior adult market with insurance and other services, the companies announced. “Following this...
Florida’s Citizens Insurance Affirmed in Three of Four Claims Appeals
Oct 1 2021 // As Citizens Property Insurance, Florida’s state-created insurer of last resort, works to reduce its exposure, officials there may take heart from three court rulings handed down this week. A fourth decision, however,...
Patriot Growth Grows with Acquisition of Another Florida Agency
Sep 30 2021 // Patriot Growth Insurance Services, less than three years old, has added a Florida firm to its army of insurance agencies around the country. The company, which calls itself one of the fastest growing national insurance...
Florida Appeals Court Finds Workers’ Comp Judge Used Flawed Logic
Sep 30 2021 // If doctors offer differing opinions on a work injury, a judge must appoint a third physician to help settle the matter, according to Florida’s workers’ compensation rules. And an administrative law judge must...
Amid Uncertainty Over Flood Insurance, Florida County Declares Emergency After Unprecedented Rainfall
Sep 29 2021 // In what may be a sign of the climate times, a Florida county has declared a local state of emergency after a weather event — even without hope of much assistance from the state or federal government. The declaration...
Florida’s Citizens Warns of Exposure Risk as Policy Count Grows
Sep 23 2021 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. president Barry Gilway said at a Wednesday board of governors meeting that the organization is considering “all ideas to reduce exposure” as policies mount by the...
National Transportation Safety Board Probes Deadly Tesla Crash in Florida
Sep 21 2021 // The National Transportation Safety Board has opened an investigation into a crash of a Tesla Inc. vehicle, the second probe by the agency of a fatal accident involving the electric carmaker’s models in less than six...
Florida New Litigated Claims Fell 35% in August
Sep 17 2021 // New litigated claims for Florida’s largest property and casualty insurers dropped to 4,313 in August, a 35% decrease from July, according to data compiled by litigation management software provider CaseGlide. The...
Florida’s Event Planners Navigate New Insurance Market Reality
Sep 14 2021 // COVID-19 has inflicted significant damage on Florida’s events industry, costing revenue, forcing changes in how the state’s venues operate and limiting options for how conventions, trade shows and concerts are...
Florida-Based Tower Hill Adds Insurance Exchange Program
Sep 13 2021 // Tower Hill Insurance Group, based in Gainesville, Florida, has announced the formation of its newest risk-bearing entity, Tower Hill Insurance Exchange (THIE). THIE will be a reciprocal insurer whereby the policyholders,...
Tropical Storm Mindy Expected to Bring Heavy Rainfall to Florida Panhandle
Sep 9 2021 // Tropical Storm Mindy is expected to produce two to four inches of rainfall across the Florida Panhandle into southern Georgia and South Carolina through Tuesday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. Mindy...
Florida Workers’ Comp Rates Set to Decrease, Again
Sep 3 2021 // Florida workers’ compensation rates are set to decline again as the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) has proposed a statewide rate decrease of 4.9% in the voluntary market. The rates would take...
