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Florida Enters Era of Workers’ Compensation Market Stability
Oct 21 2013 // Florida’s workers’ compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials. The agency, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, filed for a one percent...
Florida Highway Trooper Wants Name Cleared in Lawmaker Ticketing Case
Oct 18 2013 // A Florida Highway Patrol trooper who got in trouble over giving breaks to state legislators wants an appeals court to clear his name. An attorney for Trooper Charles Swindle said that Swindle was appealing to the 1st...
Florida Hurricane Fund Financial Condition As ‘Strong As Ever’
Oct 17 2013 // Florida is ending this year’s storm season with some good news. The state-created fund that backs up private insurers in Florida remains in the best financial shape it has been since it was created 20 years ago. New...
Florida Clinic Owner Could Get 75 Years in PIP Fraud Case
Oct 16 2013 // A Florida clinic owner is facing up to 75 years in prison for being involved in a scheme to fraudulently obtain medical payments under the state’s no-fault auto insurance law. State investigators said they found that...
Florida Supports Mississippi Suit Against Flood Insurance Hikes
Oct 16 2013 // Florida officials plan to file a brief in support of Mississippi’s lawsuit against the federal government in an attempt to block flood insurance rate hikes called for under recent reform legislation. Gov. Rick Scott...
With Rate Hikes Looming, Florida Weighs Private Flood Insurance Options
Oct 11 2013 // With thousands of Florida homeowners facing significant increases in their federal flood insurance premiums, state lawmakers are considering ways to open up the market to private insurers. Industry experts, however, say...
Florida Supreme Court to Review Wrongful Death Award
Oct 11 2013 // The Florida Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of the reduction of the monetary award in the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a University of Central Florida football player who died following...
Patriot National Appoints VP of Enterprise Data Architecture in Florida
Oct 10 2013 // Patriot National Insurance Group Inc., a workers’ compensation insurer based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., promoted Anat Veader to vice president of enterprise data architecture. Her previous title was data architect. In...
Howard Named President of Florida-Based National Retail Agency Brightway
Oct 10 2013 // Jacksonville, Florida-based national insurance agency franchise company Brightway Insurance has promoted Talman Howard to president of the company, with day-to-day management responsibilities for the organization. Howard...
Florida’s First Light Program Managers Acquires Frontline Underwriters of Mississippi
Oct 10 2013 // First Light Program Managers of Dania, Florida, said it has acquired substantially all of the assets of wholesale broker Frontline Underwriters Inc. of Madison, Mississippi. Details of the transaction were not...
Florida Fines Universal P&C Co. $1.26M
Oct 9 2013 // Florida’s second largest property insurer is paying a fine of $1.26 million. Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty announced Monday that Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. has agreed to pay the...
Florida to Hear State Farm Rental Dwelling Rate Hike Bid
Oct 8 2013 // Florida insurance officials will hold a public hearing tomorrow on State Farm Florida Insurance Co.’s proposed double-digit rate increase for its rental dwelling line of business in the state. State Farm Florida is...
Florida Welcomes Era of Workers’ Compensation Market Stability
Oct 8 2013 // Florida’s workers’ compensation system has reached a rare state of rate stability, according to insurers and officials. The agency, the National Council on Compensation Insurance, filed for a one percent...
Supreme Court Rejects Tobacco Companies’ Appeal of Florida Case
Oct 7 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the tobacco industry’s appeal of a Florida ruling that may help thousands of smokers sue cigarette makers over smoking-related illnesses. The nation’s highest court today turned...
Florida-Based SDII Global Names Howard as President
Oct 7 2013 // Tampa, Florida-based forensic engineering and insurance services firm SDII Global Corp. has named David M. Howard as chief executive officer. Howard brings 25 years of management and insurance experience to SDII, having...
Declarations
Oct 7 2013 // Unfair “This unfair consequence could devastate parts of Florida’s real estate market, stymie Florida’s economic recovery and diminish the state’s tax base.” —Florida Gov. Rick Scott urging...
Insurers Hope Court Decides Soon on Florida PIP Reforms
Oct 7 2013 // Florida automobile insurers are hoping a court will lift an injunction that has blocked portions of the state’s 2012 no-fault law from taking effect. Florida’s First District Court of Appeals recently heard...
Obamacare Day 3: High Demand, Enrollment Glitches Persist
Oct 4 2013 // Americans trying to find out how much health coverage will cost under Obamacare endured a third day of limited access to new online health insurance exchanges on Thursday, leading to a growing backlog of people waiting to...
Gulf Coast Braces for Flooding from Tropical Storm Karen
Oct 3 2013 // Tropical Storm Karen may bring more than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain, isolated tornadoes and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where it is expected to go ashore over the weekend, forecasters said. Karen, with top...
Bill Would Take the Florida Cat Fund in the Wrong Direction
Oct 3 2013 // Florida state Sen. Jeremy Ring, D-Margate, has filed Senate Bill 228 to maintain the current statutory requirement that the state-run Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, better known as the Cat Fund, sell $17 billion in...
