Latest Florida Headlines
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Anchor P&C Is Newest Florida Homeowners Insurance Carrier
Oct 30 2014 // Anchor Property and Casualty Insurance Co. became licensed by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) on Oct. 28 to write homeowners insurance business in the state. At the same time, the company has been approved...
Florida Approves Up to 183K Takeouts from Citizens for 2015
Oct 30 2014 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation (OIR) has approved the removal of up to 180,040 personal residential policies and 2,527 commercial residential polices from Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The OIR said these...
Lawsuits Commence Against Takata, Auto Makers Over Air Bags
Oct 28 2014 // Takata Corp. and carmakers that install the company’s air bags were sued by U.S. drivers over claims they were duped into buying unsafe vehicles following the recall of almost 8 million cars from 10...
Republican Atwater Expected to Easily Retain Florida CFO Seat
Oct 28 2014 // The races for two of Florida’s most important offices, state agriculture commissioner and chief financial officer, both pit incumbent Republicans with big campaign coffers against little-known Democrats who...
Florida Gov. Scott Orders 21-Day Monitoring for Ebola
Oct 27 2014 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott is ordering twice daily monitoring for anyone returning from places the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designates as affected by Ebola. Scott signed the order Saturday, giving...
Carpenter Report Details Impact of 2004 & 2005 Hurricane Seasons
Oct 27 2014 // Guy Carpenter & Company released Part II of the two-part Ten-Year Retrospective of the 2004 and 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons. Part II focuses on the 2005 hurricane season and the cumulative effects of both the 2004...
Florida Is Hot Spot for Luxury Car Theft
Oct 23 2014 // Drivers of luxury vehicles in Florida should watch out. Their cars are the least likely in the U.S. to be returned if stolen. More than 25 percent of luxury cars taken from the beginning of 2010 through 2013 were never...
Florida’s AssuredPartners Acquires Alabama’s Turner & Hamrick
Oct 23 2014 // Agency acquirer AssuredPartners Inc. of St. Mary, Florida, has purchased the assets of Turner & Hamrick, LLC, headquartered in Troy, Alabama. The Alabama agency specializes in insurance for the trucking industry, in...
Florida Gov. Scott Seeks Insurance Agents’ Help to Get Out Vote
Oct 23 2014 // Florida Governor Rick Scott is urging insurance agents to do their part to get out the vote as the state’s gubernatorial campaign enters its final weeks. Former Republican Governor Charlie Crist is running as a...
Progressive Announces New Boat Coverages in Florida
Oct 22 2014 // The Progressive Group of Insurance Cos., which insures more than one million watercrafts nationwide, has launched a line of new boating coverage options targeting Florida’s large population of boating enthusiasts....
Maximum Adds E&S Sales Teams in Chicago, Florida
Oct 21 2014 // Maximum, an independent, Chicago, Ill.-based excess and surplus lines wholesale distributor, announced further expansion to its sales team. Chicago additions include Patrick O’Donoghue to the professional practice...
CPCU Society Elects Leadership Council Members
Oct 21 2014 // The CPCU Society elected Leadership Council members for 2014–15 at its annual meeting recently in Anaheim, California. The CPCU (Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter) Society provides resources, educational programs...
‘Fangate’ Stirs Florida Insurance Industry Fears Over Gubernatorial Election
Oct 21 2014 // If Florida’s insurance industry was looking for any certainty about the results of the looming governor’s race between Governor Rick Scott and former Governor Charlie Crist, they didn’t find it after last...
Air Bag Recalls Renew Doubts About Carmakers’ Responses to Defects
Oct 21 2014 // A deepening crisis involving deadly air bags is shaking confidence in the ability of automakers including Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. to ensure the safety of millions of U.S. drivers. Toyota is advising U.S....
Florida’s War On Workers’ Comp Fraud Targets Immigrants
Oct 20 2014 // Jeff Atwater, Florida CFOFlorida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater touted the arrests of more than 100 immigrant agriculture workers last July as an effort to crack down on the costly problem of workers’...
Florida County Not Liable for Boy’s Death on Beach
Oct 16 2014 // A judge has ruled in favor of Volusia County in a family’s lawsuit over the death of their 4-year-old son who was fatally struck by a pickup truck on Daytona Beach. Judge Robert Rouse wrote that Aiden Patrick’s...
Florida Regulators Consider NCCI Request for 3.3% Rate Decrease
Oct 15 2014 // Florida’s workers’ compensation insurers rating agency says its request for a 3.3 decrease in rates reflects a stable market, although it cautioned that pending court cases could severely impact the...
Florida’s Century Risk Advisors Adds Bogdanoff
Oct 14 2014 // Century Risk Advisors in Boca Raton, Fla., has hired Debra Bogdanoff as a commercial insurance advisor for its Professional Practice division. In this role, Bogdanoff will be working with law firms, accounting firms and...
Florida Public Universities’ Corporations Raise Immunity, Disclosure Questions
Oct 13 2014 // The business of Florida’s 12 public universities is supposed to be public like any other state agency. Salaries, contracts, policies and other university business records are supposed to be subject to Florida’s...
Labor Advocates Question Florida Immigrant Workers’ Comp Arrests
Oct 9 2014 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater touted the arrests of more than 100 immigrant agriculture workers last July as an effort to crack down on the costly problem of workers’ compensation fraud. But it quickly...
