Latest Florida Headlines
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Florida Senate Panel OKs Gilway as Citizens President
Apr 3 2013 // A Florida Senate committee unanimously confirmed Barry Gilway’s appointment as president of the state-backed insurer Citizens Property Insurance Corp. The rare legislative oversight of the Citizens leadership...
AIR Worldwide Announces New Public Risk Services Group
Apr 3 2013 // Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has announced the availability of Public Risk Services, which it describes as a “new consulting service to support the needs of public sector institutions and stakeholders...
Gallogly Joins Florida’s Lighthouse Property Insurance
Apr 2 2013 // Lighthouse Property Insurance Corp. has named Loren Gallogly as a new manager of sales and marketing charged with expanding the insurer’s sales in South Carolina and Louisiana. Gallogly has 30 years of experience in...
More Than 300K Homes Are Foreclosed ‘Zombies’
Apr 2 2013 // A national survey found 301,874 “zombie” properties dotting the U.S. landscape in which homeowners in foreclosure have moved out, leaving vacant property susceptible to vandalism and degradation. Florida tops...
Florida May End Insurers’ Tax Credit
Apr 1 2013 // Florida lawmakers are moving forward with a proposal to eliminate a 15 percent premium tax credit for insurance companies in order to reduce automobile license fees despite strong objections from insurance industry. The...
Astonish’s One-Day Modern Consumer Training Hosted by QQ Solutions on Thursday, April 11
Apr 1 2013 // Warwick, RI, 04/01/13 – Astonish, a leading digital marketing solutions and sales training provider for insurance agencies, encourages local insurance agency principals, CEOs, and presidents in Florida and surrounding...
Florida Regulators Allege Fraud by Allianz in Case of Failed Insurer
Mar 27 2013 // Florida regulators are alleging that insurer Allianz and its companies contributed to the collapse of a Florida domestic property insurer by taking out more than $20 million in assets and rendering it unable to meet its...
Florida’s Citizens Reduces Risk of Emergency Assessments
Mar 27 2013 // Florida’s state-backed property insurer announced that it has reduced the size of any possible emergency assessments on policyholders due to its depopulation efforts and by transferring part of its risk to private...
Florida Skydivers’ Deaths Under Investigation
Mar 26 2013 // Two skydivers from Iceland who died during weekend jumps at a popular southwest Florida camp did not deploy their main parachutes, the co-owner of the facility said. Deputies found the bodies of a skydiving instructor and...
FIGA Reforms Should Increase Flexibility, Not Eliminate It
Mar 25 2013 // When it comes to property insurance reform in Florida, everyone is basically focused on proposals that deal with the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, Citizens Property Insurance Corp. and the (over) regulation of...
Florida Debates Wage Theft Legislation
Mar 25 2013 // Businesses and workers-rights advocates are fighting over a bill that would set uniform state standards for employees who say they haven’t been paid their full wages to seek compensation. The bill would require...
Florida Lawmaker Wants to End Insurance Company Tax Credit
Mar 25 2013 // A top Senate Republican wants to roll back fees now charged to Floridians to renew their driver’s license and car tags. Sen. Joe Negron, R-Stuart and Senate budget chief, said he will unveil a bill this week that...
Florida Sinkhole Loss Rule Upheld
Mar 25 2013 // A Florida court has upheld a decision by state insurance regulators that property insurers must offer sinkhole loss coverage in an amount equal to the dwelling coverage limit. Farm Bureau asked the Office of Insurance...
Florida Insurers, Employers Scrambling After Court Ruling on Workers’ Compensation Benefit
Mar 25 2013 // A Florida district court judge’s ruling that declared unconstitutional a 104-week limitation on injured workers’ temporary benefits left insurers and employers scrambling to come up with a legislative...
Business Moves – Southeast
Mar 25 2013 // Bankers Insurance, AIX Group Florida ankers Insurance Group has reached an agreement with AIX Group to acquire its Florida policies as part of a strategy to increase Bankers’ presence in the state’s Latino...
Florida Gov. Scott, Insurers Vow Fight to Save PIP Law After Injunction
Mar 22 2013 // A Florida circuit court judge has issued a temporary injunction against certain provisions of the state’s no-fault personal injury protection (PIP) law, ruling that it is no longer a “reasonable...
Crist Leads Scott in 2014 Governor’s Race Poll
Mar 21 2013 // Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist holds a big edge over Republican Gov. Rick Scott among registered Florida voters in a hypothetical gubernatorial match-up in 2014, a new poll shows. Crist was favored by 50 percent while...
Feds Would Set Florida Health Insurance Rates Under Senate Bill
Mar 21 2013 // A state Senate health committee recommended this week that the state suspend the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation’s power to set rates for insurers under the Affordable Care Act and instead let the federal...
Childers Named President of Florida’s LassiterWare Insurance
Mar 20 2013 // Doug Childers Jr. has been appointed president of LassiterWare Insurance in Leesburg, Florida. Childers will report to Ted Ostrander Jr., the company’s CEO. Childers has a decade of experience providing commercial...
Threats Posted on Facebook Are Crimes, Florida Court Rules
Mar 20 2013 // In an apparent first in Florida law, a state appeals court ruled this week that posting threats on one’s personal Facebook page can be prosecuted under state law. The 1st District Court of Appeal decided in a...
