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Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. Successfully Resolved Trucking Case in Florida Jury Verdict of Just Under $412M
Nov 17 2020 // Chicago, IL, November 13, 2020 – Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (“PPCI”) successfully resolved a trucking case that went to jury trial in Florida resulting in a jury verdict of just under...
Citizens People Moves: Thomas Joins Board, Beruff Becomes Chair, Dunbar to Rep FIGA
Nov 17 2020 // Several changes came to Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. Board of Governors this month with two new appointments and the approval of one board member to serve as a representative for the Florida Insurance...
Parts of Florida, Carolinas Take Beating from Tropical Storm Eta
Nov 16 2020 // After hanging over Florida for several days, the former Tropical Storm Eta became a post-tropical cyclone early Friday, racing off the Southeast Atlantic coast and bringing heavy rains and gusty winds to the Carolinas...
King Tides Could Bring Flooding to South Florida
Nov 16 2020 // The National Weather Service in Miami is issuing a coastal flood statement as the new moon’s proximity to Earth brings on another round of king tides. The Palm Beach Post reports that because the new moon is Sunday,...
Orchid Insurance, Homesite Launch Homeowners Insurer TRUE in Florida
Nov 16 2020 // Orchid Underwriters Agency, LLC (Orchid), a specialty underwriter of catastrophe-exposed property insurance, and Homesite Group, a national property insurer, have created TRUE, a reciprocal insurance company to protect...
Declarations
Nov 16 2020 // Kansas Crop Risk “Kansas is having a relatively larger increase in crop risk as a response to a one-degree Celsius warming, compared to the other parts of the country.” — Jisang Yu, assistant professor of...
Erratic Tropical Storm Eta Makes Landfall on Florida’s West Coast
Nov 12 2020 // Tropical Storm Eta made landfall on Florida’s west coast Thursday, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds to northern parts of the peninsula. Eta came ashore near Cedar Key at 4 a.m. New York time, with maximum...
HUB Acquires Assets Of Florida-Based Leading Edge Benefit Advisors & Affiliates
Nov 12 2020 // HUB International Limited (Hub), a leading global insurance brokerage, has acquired the assets of Leading Edge Benefit Advisors, LLC, Raimey, Corp., Leading Edge Human Resource Services, LLC, Leading Edge Companies, LLC,...
Tropical Storm Eta’s Rains Threaten Floods for South Florida, Cuba, Bahamas
Nov 10 2020 // Nov 10, 2020, 4:33 AM— After coming ashore in the Florida Keys overnight, Tropical Storm Eta is now hovering just north of the Yucatan Channel and is set to re-strengthen as it meanders over the south-eastern Gulf of...
Flood Waters Keep Rising in South Florida from Tropical Storm Eta
Nov 10 2020 // Beaches and coronavirus testing sites were closed, public transportation shut down and some evacuations in place early Monday after Tropical Storm Eta made landfall in the Florida Keys, bringing heavy rains to already...
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...
