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#1 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...
#2 How One Florida Engineer Charged Others With Fraudulent Insurance Reports, Testimony
Sep 3 2024 // He’s been called a “do-gooder,” a “troublemaker” and a whistleblower. And he may be the best friend the Florida property insurance industry has. A mechanical engineer based in Edgewater,...
#3 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...
#4 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...
#5 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...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 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...
#9 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,...
#10 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...
#11 In Florida’s Weed Wars, Griffin and DeSantis Clash With Trump and ‘Pot Daddy’
Nov 5 2024 // In Florida’s weed wars, the big money is going against Governor Ron DeSantis and the financier of his anti-cannabis crusade, billionaire Ken Griffin. The Citadel founder has funded about half of the campaign against...
#12 Milton Ravaged One of the Most Popular Areas for Snowbirds on Florida’s Gulf Coast
Oct 24 2024 // BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The start of “snowbird” season in Florida is only weeks away, but many Florida Gulf Coast beaches, regularly voted some of the best in the United States, are closed to the public...
#13 Tesla Goes to Trial Over Fatal Autopilot Crash in Florida
Jul 14 2025 // Tesla Inc. will stand trial over claims that the company is partly to blame for a fatal 2019 crash in Florida that occurred when the Autopilot system in a Model S allegedly failed to detect a parked SUV. Family members of...
#14 Investigation Into Florida Condo Collapse Is Expected to Finish in 2026
Jun 30 2025 // More than four years after a Florida condominium collapse killed 98 people, federal investigators have yet to make a final determination of the cause — but they do have some leading theories. The National Institute of...
#15 Explaining Deductibles After Multiple Florida Hurricanes
Oct 16 2024 // Deductibles serve several purposes. They provide some premium relief for the insured. They make insureds less likely to file smaller claims because either damage falls within the deductible, or is so close to it that the...
#16 Florida Appeals Court Says Plaintiff Can’t Harp on Adjusting Delays in Claims Dispute
Jun 11 2025 // Some Florida policyholders and their attorneys have long complained about real or perceived delays in the claims-handling process after a loss. A Florida appeals court ruled last week that telling a jury about those delays...
#17 Slide’s Exec Pay Leads to Questions About Florida Citizens’ Rate Model
Jun 26 2025 // At Wednesday’s Board of Governors meetings, a Citizens Property Insurance Corp. committee voted to move ahead with the full, 15% average rate increase for personal lines in 2026 – the largest increase allowed under...
#18 Homeowners Have Post-Loss Duties Too, Florida Appeals Court Says in HCI Win
Mar 20 2025 // Florida insurers, often on the receiving end of insureds’ complaints – in the courts and in the news media – may take heart from a new ruling by a Florida appeals court, which draws a bold line under...
#19 Rebuild or What? Florida Towns Hit Three Times by Hurricanes Face Tough Choice
Oct 4 2024 // HORSESHOE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It was just a month ago that Brooke Hiers left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived since Hurricane Idalia slammed into her Gulf Coast fishing village of Horseshoe...
#20 Orlando Joins Florida’s Stadium Boom With $420 Million Bond Sale
Jul 31 2025 // Orlando plans to borrow more than $420 million to renovate Camping World Stadium, joining a wave of Florida cities pouring public funds into stadium projects. The city plans to sell about $420 million of tax-exempt bonds...
