Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida Regulator Calls for Further Workers’ Comp Rate Decrease
Nov 10 2020 // Florida’s insurance regulator has called for a further decrease to proposed workers’ compensation insurance rates in response to a filing by the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). In an order...
Update: Tropical Storm Eta Strikes Florida Keys, Could Still Strengthen
Nov 8 2020 // Updated on Nov 9, 2020, 9:36 AM – After coming ashore in the Florida Keys overnight, Tropical Storm Eta will wander the eastern Gulf of Mexico, dumping heavy rain on the Sunshine State and raking it with gusty...
Weakened Storm Eta Moves over Honduras with Heavy Rains. Next Stop Cuba, Florida?
Nov 6 2020 // TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Eta is moving over Honduras as a weakened tropical depression but still bringing the heavy rains that have caused deadly landslides while drenching the country’s east and the north of...
Florida Voters Approve Raising Minimum Wage to $15 Over 6 Years
Nov 6 2020 // Florida voters on Tuesday approved raising the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years, which advocates say will lift the pay for hundreds of thousands of workers in the state’s...
Voters OK’d Local Measures to Fight Climate Change
Nov 5 2020 // Local governments are increasingly taking it upon themselves to address climate change. Denver voters on election day passed Measure 2A, which would raise city sales tax by 0.25% starting in January with the goal of...
McGowan Allied Specialty Insurance Hires Boyd as Underwriting Manager in Florida
Nov 4 2020 // McGowan Allied Specialty Insurance (MASI), a provider of commercial insurance products to the amusement industry, has announced the hiring of Joe K. Boyd as an Underwriting manager. In his new role with MASI, Boyd will be...
Florida-Based Seeman Holtz Private Client Group Adds Sgammato, Sisk
Nov 3 2020 // Seeman Holtz Property & Casualty has expanded its management team for the Seeman Holtz Private Client Group, its high net worth personal lines insurance division. Joining Somtip Brunner, vice president of Sales for...
Business Moves
Nov 2 2020 // National AmWINS, CRC, Heffernan Wholesaler insurance brokers AmWINS and CRC, along with independent agency Heffernan Insurance Brokers, are the charter members of a new alliance to accelerate technology improvements in the...
Florida Property Insurance Market Inches Closer to Crisis – Part 2
Oct 30 2020 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation is monitoring the state’s property insurance situation that is seen as in a crisis by those in the industry. The regulator said the insurance market has been buffeted by...
Florida Driving School Suspended for Providing Answers to License Test
Oct 29 2020 // A Florida driving school was suspended after investigators said it was providing correct answers to people taking a written driver license test, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced last...
Florida Property Insurance Market Inches Closer to Crisis – Part 1
Oct 29 2020 // After years of warnings that the Florida property insurance market was heading towards an availability crisis, many in the industry say the moment of reckoning has arrived. They blame unchecked claims litigation from...
Tower Hill, Safeco to Offer Policy Multi-Policy Discount in Florida
Oct 28 2020 // Florida-based Tower Hill Insurance and national carrier Safeco, two non-affiliated carriers, have formed a marketing partnership in the state of Florida to offer a multi-policy discount to customers. Beginning in November,...
Risk Strategies Acquires LaRocca & Associates of Florida
Oct 28 2020 // Risk Strategies, a privately held national insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has acquired LaRocca & Associates, Inc., a specialty brokerage with expertise in health and welfare benefits across several...
6 Homes Evacuated as Sinkhole in Florida Neighborhood Grows to 50 Feet Wide
Oct 27 2020 // A sinkhole that opened earlier this month in a north Florida neighborhood expanded on Thursday, leading officials to urge residents from six nearby homes to evacuate. Johnnie Candiano, 22, his brother Beau Candiano, 20,...
SageSure Expands with Product for Coastal Businesses in South Carolina, Florida
Oct 19 2020 // SageSure, a homeowners insurtech, has launched a new line of commercial insurance products in traditionally underserved coastal markets. Launching in South Carolina followed by Florida, SageSure’s commercial product...
Olympus Insurance of Florida Names Milliman’s Rollins as CFO
Oct 16 2020 // Gemini Financial Holdings Corporation (GFHC), the parent company of Olympus Insurance Co., has hired John W. Rollins to the role of chief financial officer, effective Oct. 19, 2020. Rollins has 30 years of experience as a...
Study: Hurricane Irma Led to 400 Senior Deaths in Florida Nursing Homes
Oct 16 2020 // The aftereffects of 2017’s Hurricane Irma appear to have killed more than 400 senior residents of Florida nursing homes, a new university study shows. Researchers at the University of South Florida and Brown...
Florida’s Ensurem Hires Needham as Chief Marketing Officer
Oct 14 2020 // Clearwater, Fla.-based technology and product distribution company, Ensurem, recently hired Jamie Needham as chief marketing officer (CMO). As CMO, Needham is responsible for the vision, strategic direction and performance...
Lockton Global Marine Adds Lochridge, Byrne in Florida
Oct 12 2020 // Lockton Global Marine has added Kyle Lochridge and Jake Byrne as vice presidents and account executives. They are based in South Florida. Kyle Lochridge Lochridge has over 13 years of experience in marine insurance with a...
Parents in Florida School Shooting Lawsuit Asked to Prove Mental Anguish
Oct 9 2020 // Parents who sued a school district after their children died in a mass shooting at a Florida high school are being asked to turn over their psychiatric records to prove they have suffered mental anguish. The Broward County...
