Best Read Florida Headlines
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#1 A Year Later, Mixed Reactions Over Florida’s $36M Citizens Clearinghouse System
Aug 14 2025 // It was supposed to simplify and speed the process for insurance agents trying to find private coverage for Citizens policyholders, a vital link in depopulating Florida’s oversized insurer of last resort. But a year...
#2 Florida’s Once-Pristine Springs Threatened by Pollution, Development, Climate
Sep 2 2025 // Seen from the air, a Florida freshwater spring is a bit of liquid heaven, luring humans and wildlife to enjoy its aquamarine cool. With at least 1,000 of them — more than any other state — the springs serve as beaches...
#3 Florida OIR Approves 31.5% ‘Catch-up’ Rate Increase for TRUE, Despite Missed Filings
Aug 1 2025 // Florida’s Office of Insurance Regulation this week approved an average 31.5% increase in homeowner rates for Trusted Resource Underwriters Exchange – one of the largest Florida rate hikes in two years – despite...
#4 DeSantis Unleashes ‘Florida DOGE’ in Quest to Kill Property Taxes
Aug 28 2025 // Ron DeSantis is seeking to complete his project of remaking Florida into a conservative paradise with perhaps his riskiest wager yet: a campaign to largely wipe out property taxes. In his nearly seven years in office, the...
#5 Florida Condo Collapse Probe Zeroes in on Pool Deck Flaws as Preliminary Cause
Sep 12 2025 // Federal investigators have zeroed in on flaws in the pool deck as the preliminary cause of the 2021 collapse of a 12-story Florida beachfront condominium that killed 98 people. The National Institute of Standards and...
#6 Florida Appeals Court Underscores That Limits on Attorney Fees Are Not Retroactive
Sep 2 2025 // A Florida appeals court has put another nail in the idea that the state’s limits on attorney fees can be applied retroactively to policies issued before the landmark legislative changes were enacted in 2022 and 2023,...
#7 Accusations Fly About Immigration Status of Truck Driver in Fatal Florida Accident
Aug 21 2025 // The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday that a truck driver accused of making an illegal U-turn that killed three people in Florida was in the country illegally, fueling a verbal tussle with California Gov....
#8 Insurance Agent Next After Florida Farm Manager Pleads in ‘Insurance Farming’ Scheme?
Sep 10 2025 // In a wide-ranging scheme that prosecutors are calling “insurance farming,” a former manager for one of the larger agricultural operations in Florida is now awaiting a sentencing hearing in December. Christopher...
#9 McCarty Critical of Consultant’s Report on MGAs, as Average Premiums Drop in Florida
Mar 25 2025 // Amid an uproar over reports that Florida property insurance companies had shifted profits to affiliated firms while rates rose and carriers slid into insolvency a half-decade ago, former Florida Insurance Commissioner...
#10 Immigration Crackdown Unnerves Once-Protected Cuban Exiles in Florida
May 28 2025 // Immigration officials said Tomás Hernández worked in high-level posts for Cuba’s foreign intelligence agency for decades before migrating to the United States to pursue the American dream. The 71-year-old was...
#11 Florida Plan to Drop School Vaccine Rule Is Limited, Won’t Start for 90 Days
Sep 9 2025 // Florida’s plan to drop school vaccine mandates likely won’t take effect for 90 days and would include only chickenpox and a few other illnesses unless lawmakers decide to extend it to other diseases, like polio...
#12 Florida OIR Fines Carriers for Adjuster Appointments, Lack of Disclosure Statements
Sep 3 2025 // Florida Insurance Comissioner Michael Yaworsky this year has levied more than $2 million in fines against eight property insurance companies over claims-handling practices flagged by recent market conduct...
#13 Florida Official Dismisses Need to Study Vaccine Mandate
Sep 8 2025 // Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo said there’s no need to do projections of the potential effects of ending vaccine mandates for children, as Governor Ron DeSantis pushes to make his state the first one to scrap...
#14 Florida Regulators Say They Need More Authority to Rein in Slide’s Exec Pay
Jul 28 2025 // Florida’s insurance regulators expressed concern about recent news that Slide Insurance executives took home millions in compensation last year, suggesting that state agencies need new authority to limit pay...
#15 Does Florida’s 15-Year Roof Age Rule Discourage More Wind-Resistant Products?
Jan 23 2025 // After Hurricane Milton swept through parts of southwestern Florida in October, aerial drone images showed condominium buildings with large sections of their roof membranes peeled back like blankets on a beach, exposing the...
#16 Florida Judge Blocks State Agency for Citizens Claims Disputes, But Insurer Appeals
Aug 5 2025 // A Florida judge temporarily halted Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. from sending claims disputes to a state arbitration agency, but a notice of appeal by Citizens automatically suspended the judge’s...
#17 Did Florida Appeals Court Put the Final Nail in the AOB Coffin? Maybe…
Jan 27 2025 // Almost five years after Florida lawmakers clamped restrictions on assignment-of-benefits agreements and two years after they effectively outlawed AOBs altogether, state appeals courts may have finally put an end to at...
#18 Police: Florida Man Firebombed Insurance Agency, Is Linked to Competing Agency
Jul 21 2025 // A central Florida man has been charged with shooting at and throwing Molotov cocktails into an insurance agency office in Lake Wales last spring. Lake Wales Police said Jason Roberts was tracked down last week in Jasper,...
#19 Florida Farm Identified as Source of Raw Milk That Sickened 21 People
Aug 11 2025 // TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida Department of Health has identified Keely Farms Dairy as the source of raw milk that has sickened 21 people with E. coli or campylobacter since January. A manager of the farm in New...
#20 Jury Awards $100M in Shooting Death of Former Florida State Senator’s Son
Jul 18 2025 // A Miami jury this week awarded a former Florida state senator $100 million in a wrongful death lawsuit brought against the condominium complex where her son was shot to death in 2021. Daphne Campbell, who served for eight...
