Latest Florida Headlines
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Hub Florida Hires Boyd as Senior VP of Marketing
Mar 4 2016 // Hub International Florida, part of Hub International Limited, has hired Teresa Boyd as senior vice president of Marketing, responsible for overseeing the marketing operations for the production teams in the Hub Florida...
NSM Insurance Acquires Florida-Based Heacock Classic
Mar 4 2016 // NSM Insurance Group, has acquired Heacock Classic, a division of Florida-based Heacock Insurance Group that provides collector car insurance. This marks NSM Insurance Group’s third acquisition in the collector car...
Florida Approves 81,500 Citizens Policies for May 2016 Take-Out
Mar 3 2016 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the removal of up to 80,000 personal residential policies and 1,500 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation (Citizens). The...
Marsh & McLennan Agency Acquires Celedinas Insurance Group in Florida
Mar 3 2016 // Ray Celedinas Marsh & McLennan Agency LLC (MMA), the middle market agency subsidiary of Marsh, has acquired Celedinas Insurance Group, one of Florida’s largest independent agencies. Terms of the transaction were...
Report: Florida Water Loss Claims up 46 Percent in 5-Year Period
Mar 2 2016 // The frequency and severity of water loss claims in Florida have increased every year since 2010, according to data call results from the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR). During the same period, there has been...
Hub International Acquires Assets of Florida-Based Green-Hazel & Associates
Mar 2 2016 // Global insurance brokerage Hub International Limited (Hub) has acquired the assets of Greene-Hazel & Associates, Inc., based in Jacksonville, Fla. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Greene-Hazel specializes...
Florida State Appoints MarketScout’s Kerr to College of Business Insurance Council
Mar 1 2016 // Richard Kerr, founder and chief executive officer of MarketScout, the national electronic insurance exchange and specialty MGA, has been elected to the Risk Management and Insurance Executive Council of the Florida State...
E-Cigarette Explosion Injures Florida Woman, Destroys Car
Feb 28 2016 // A Florida woman says an e-cigarette exploded as she took a puff, knocking her teeth loose and catching her rental car on fire. Cassandra Koziol told the Naples Daily News she had parked her car outside a friend’s...
Citizens: $4.2M in Florida Customer Premiums Recovered in 2015
Feb 28 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. reports that it recovered more than $4.2 million in customer premiums in 2015 by aggressively pursuing third parties responsible for losses and salvaging property involved in a claim, the...
Florida Lawmakers Reintroduce Bill Limiting Citizens’ Take-Out Letters
Feb 28 2016 // Florida legislators may try once again give additional protections to customers of Citizens Property Insurance. A Senate panel on Feb. 25 approved a bill that would put a limit on how many times a year a homeowner could be...
Florida Reports 3 Pregnant Women Test Positive for Zika
Feb 26 2016 // Health officials say three pregnant women have tested positive for the Zika virus in Florida. Secretary of Health Dr. John Armstrong announced the cases Wednesday in his daily Zika update. A news release says all three...
A.M. Best Upgrades Issuer Credit Rating of Florida-Based Seven Seas Insurance Co.
Feb 24 2016 // A.M. Best has upgraded the issuer credit rating (ICR) to “a+” from “a” and affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A (Excellent) of Seven Seas Insurance Company, Inc. (Riviera Beach, Fla)....
$50M Suit Challenges Florida’s Suspension of Driver’s Licenses in DUI Cases
Feb 24 2016 // A federal lawsuit is challenging the way driver’s licenses are automatically taken away from drunken-driving suspects in Florida. The class-action lawsuit filed Feb. 17 in federal court in Orlando says the current...
Florida’s Citizens Rolls Out New Website for Agents, Insureds
Feb 23 2016 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has launched a new website for customers, agents and other stakeholders that, according to the company, offers a more comprehensive gateway into the state’s insurer of last...
USI Insurance Services Acquires Florida-Based Best Insurance
Feb 22 2016 // USI Insurance Services has acquired Best Insurance, located in Tamarac, Fla. Best Insurance offers a range of personal insurance products, including homeowners, automobile, motorcycle, boat and watercraft, to customers in...
Oklahoma Gun Range Sued for Refusing Muslim Man Service
Feb 19 2016 // A U.S. Army reservist from Tulsa asked to leave a gun range in eastern Oklahoma after identifying himself as a Muslim sued the owners Wednesday, the latest in a series of cases across the nation alleging anti-Islamic...
Unlicensed Georgia Agent Arrested for Stealing Premiums From Florida Seniors
Feb 19 2016 // The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF), which operates under the direction of Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, announced the arrest of William David Rodeffer III of Folkston, Ga. Rodeffer allegedly accepted...
Florida State Troopers Report 186 Deaths from Hit-and-Run Crashes in 2015
Feb 19 2016 // State troopers say 186 people died in hit-and-run crashes in Florida last year. According to statistics released Monday by the Florida Highway Patrol, more than half the fatalities last year were pedestrians. Officials say...
Ex-Freedom President Gets 1 Month in Prison for West Virginia Chemical Spill
Feb 18 2016 // An executive who appeared unsympathetic when he spoke to the public after a chemical spill sullied tap water for 300,000 people in West Virginia was sentenced to one month in federal prison Wednesday. Ex-Freedom Industries...
Tornadoes Batter Multiple Southeast States
Feb 18 2016 // Weather service experts are assessing damage from storms that caused problems in several Southeast states. At least six south Alabama counties suffered damage from storms on Monday. The Johnsonville Volunteer Fire...
