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Florida Insurers American Traditions, Modern USA Merge
Jun 4 2018 // American Traditions Insurance Co. (ATIC) has merged with its affiliate Modern USA Insurance Co. The two companies were launched under similar ownership shortly after the 2005 hurricane season to provide additional...
Workers’ Comp : Healthy Underwriting Gain, Premium Growth Blockage
Jun 4 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurers are managing their premiums dollars better than they have in years, but those premium dollars are stagnating even as employment and wages are rising. In 2017, for the fourth consecutive...
Cities Still Owed Funds from Last Hurricane Season as New Season Gets Underway
Jun 1 2018 // Allen Owen, the mayor of Missouri City, Texas, wants to do more to protect his town from the next disaster. But the city hasn’t gotten any of the roughly $1 million in federal disaster funds he said it’s owed...
Crane Collapse on Homes in Florida Injures 2
Jun 1 2018 // Authorities say at least two people were injured when a crane collapsed on two homes in a Florida neighborhood. Lauderhill Fire Rescue Capt. Jerry Gonzalez says the crane was being used to put up Florida Power & Light...
What the Florida Industry Needs to Know for the 2018 Hurricane Season
Jun 1 2018 // The 2018 hurricane season is officially underway, even as the dust continues to settle on the 2017 hurricane season — one of the costliest hurricane years on record — that brought devastation to Florida from Hurricane...
CoreLogic: Texas, Louisiana Highly Vulnerable to Hurricane Storm Surge Losses
May 31 2018 // Texas and Louisiana are among the top three states for potential storm surge losses at the start of the 2018 hurricane season, which begins on June 1. That’s according to Irvine, California-based CoreLogic, a...
Cigarette Ignites Large Fire at Florida Condo Complex, 10 Units Destroyed
May 31 2018 // A large fire at a Florida condominium complex has destroyed at least 10 units. The Martin County sheriff’s office says a section of the Cedar Pointe Villages complex in Stuart was engulfed by flames on Monday night....
Florida Activates Anti-Fraud Teams in Wake of Tropical Storm Alberto
May 30 2018 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team (DFSAT) have been deployed across the state to protect Floridians from post-storm fraud that could occur in the aftermath of Tropical...
Alberto Weakens to Depression, Moving North Across Alabama
May 29 2018 // Storm Alberto weakened to a subtropical depression, moving across central Alabama after making landfall in the Florida Panhandle and bringing heavy rains that threaten the U.S. South with economic losses of $1...
Florida Judge Rules State’s Smokable Medical Marijuana Ban Unconstitutional
May 29 2018 // Florida’s ban that prevents medical marijuana patients from smoking their cannabis has gone up in smoke. Leon County Circuit Court Judge Karen Gievers on Friday ruled that a state’s ban on smokable cannabis is...
Weakening Alberto Brings Heavy Rains to Southeast for Memorial Day
May 28 2018 // Subtropical Storm Alberto lost strength as it came ashore near Laguna Beach in Florida Monday, bringing heavy rains that threaten the U.S. South with economic losses of $1 billion. Alberto was 15 miles (24 kilometers) from...
Alberto, 2018’s First Named Storm, Heading for Florida, Southeast Coast
May 25 2018 // Meet Alberto, the first named storm of 2018. The sub-tropical storm off Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula is expected to bring heavy rain to western Cuba and much of Florida early next week, the National Hurricane Center in...
Florida Hurricane Fund in Good Shape for Storm Season
May 25 2018 // The Florida fund that helps private insurers pay out claims after a hurricane remains in good shape heading into a storm season. Despite losses from Hurricane Irma, estimates show the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund...
4 New Sinkholes Open in Central Florida Retirement Community
May 24 2018 // Four sinkholes have opened up in a fast-growing retirement community in Florida, including one in front of a home that was abandoned months ago because of an earlier sinkhole. A spokeswoman for the Marion County...
Florida Man Killed by Exploding Vape Pen
May 22 2018 // An exploding vape pen hurled fragments into a Florida man’s head, killing him and starting a fire that burned most of his body, an autopsy report said. The Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner’s autopsy report...
Florida Makes 3 Arrests in ‘Operation Rent-to-Burn’ Arson Crime Ring
May 22 2018 // Three additional people have been arrested for their various roles in an arson-for-profit scheme that took place over 7 years in three Florida counties, according to a statement from Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and State...
Sinkhole at Florida Fertilizer Factory Sealed Nearly 2 Years After Opening
May 21 2018 // Crews have sealed a giant sinkhole that opened up beneath a fertilizer plant waste pond nearly two years ago sending millions of gallons of polluted water into Florida’s main drinking water aquifer. A spokeswoman for...
Court Approves Patriot National Bankruptcy, Reorganization
May 21 2018 // The bankruptcy and reorganization plan filed by insurance technology and outsourcing firm Patriot National has been approved and the transition of ownership of the Florida-based company can now move forward. According to a...
Florida: Federal Tax Cuts Spur 1.8% Decrease in Workers’ Comp Rates
May 21 2018 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved a 1.8 percent rate decrease for workers’ compensation insurance in Florida. The decrease was filed by the National Council on Compensation Insurance...
Brightway Insurance Opens New Stores in Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee
May 18 2018 // Brightway Insurance is continuing its expansion with the opening of five new stores, four of which are located in the Southeast. The new stores that opened in the region include in Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee:...
