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Florida Workers’ Compensation Market Remains Healthy: State Report
Jan 6 2012 // The state’s annual report on workers’ compensation insurance says Florida’s market is “competitive,” and availability of coverage is not a significant problem. The Office of Insurance...
Florida Citrus Growers Batlling Sub-Freezing Temperatures
Jan 5 2012 // Florida citrus growers reported damage to some orange groves for the second consecutive day on Thursday, after overnight temperatures dropped dangerously low in parts of the state’s citrus belt. “For the second...
Traffic Deaths Continue to Decline in Florida
Jan 4 2012 // State officials say the number of traffic deaths in Florida has continued to drop. The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles reported that through Monday there were 2,312 traffic deaths in Florida, compared with...
Florida Commercial Health Plan Enrollment Continues Overall Slide
Dec 22 2011 // Enrollment in commercial health insurance in Florida was down 4.3 percent in 2010, the fifth straight year it has dropped. The annual report of the Florida Health Care Insurance Advisory Board shows that total enrollment...
For Florida Gov. Scott, Insurance Fixes Are Legislative Priority
Dec 21 2011 // Gov. Rick Scott wants lawmakers to fix a pair of auto and property insurance issues that are costing Floridians hundreds of millions of dollars but have eluded resolution for more than a decade. The issue facing the...
Digital Insurance Acquires South Florida’s Kellogg Smith
Dec 20 2011 // Digital Insurance has acquired Kellogg Smith as part of a plan to increase its presence in Florida. The addition of the Miami-based Kellogg markets the eleventh addition to the company this year. Established in 1993,...
Florida’s Citizens Pulls Back on Condominium Rate Hikes for Now
Dec 20 2011 // Florida condominium buildings that rent out 25 percent of their units will see no rate increase for now despite playing a key role in the state’s largest property insurer’s plan to reduce its policy...
Supreme Court Schedules Obama Healthcare Arguments
Dec 19 2011 // Oral arguments on President Barack Obama’s sweeping U.S. healthcare overhaul will last 5-1/2 hours spread over three days from March 26-28, the Supreme Court said on Monday. The Supreme Court last month agreed to...
Florida’s Citizens Insurance Board Approves Proposals for Depopulating
Dec 19 2011 // The board overseeing the Citizens Property Insurance Corp. is moving ahead with a half dozen recommendations for the Legislature it believes will help depopulate the state-backed insurer. The plan approved last week in...
Test Your Insurance News Knowledge
Dec 16 2011 // Are you an insurance news hound? Test your insurance news IQ and find out. The following questions and answers (see bottom of the page) were developed based on news stories published on InsuranceJournal.com and...
Florida Regulators Allow Bermuda Reinsurer to Operate with Reduced Capital
Dec 15 2011 // Florida has added one more name to the growing list of offshore reinsurers who can do business in the state under a new law allowing them to reduce their capital and collateral requirements. The Florida Office of Insurance...
Employers Offers 5% Workers’ Comp Discount for Florida Businesses
Dec 14 2011 // Some small businesses in Florida will see an automatic 5 percent discount on their workers’ compensation policies through a new program offered by Employers Holdings, Inc. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation...
Zurich, Patriot National in Deal to Offer Workers’ Comp Captive Program in Florida
Dec 14 2011 // A Florida workers’ compensation insurer has reached a deal with a California company to underwrite its workers’ compensation policies through its Florida agency-owned captive program. Zurich Financial Services...
Insurer Group PCI Names Brown Florida Regional Manager
Dec 13 2011 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) has named G. Donovan Brown its new counsel and regional manager for Florida. Brown takes on the government relations role at PCI after a decade in government and...
Florida Underwriter Magazine Shuts Down
Dec 13 2011 // The Florida Underwriter magazine has published its last issue. “Unfortunately, the double demons of our state’s falling economy and the dominance of the Internet over print products have brought us to this...
Florida Turns to Surplus Lines to Help Depopulate Citizens
Dec 9 2011 // Florida lawmakers are considering allowing surplus lines carriers to participate in the depopulation programs of the state’s largest homeowner insurer in an effort to reduce its policyholder rolls. Citizens Property...
Florida Gov. Scott Questions Citizens Insuring High-Risk Construction
Dec 8 2011 // Gov. Rick Scott said he is concerned about Florida’s state-backed property insurer providing discounted coverage on new construction projects in high-risk areas. Scott questioned Citizens Property Insurance Corp....
Florida Agents Concerned About Homeowners Choice Contract
Dec 7 2011 // Independent agents in Florida are concerned that an appointment contract offered by a Florida homeowners insurer that recently assumed thousands of policies from another company could result in a loss of those...
Florida’s Citizens Insurance Says Legislation Needed for Real Change
Dec 6 2011 // Florida’s largest homeowner insurer is offering a slate of coverage changes, but concedes that without legislative changes there will be little reduction in its exposure or policyholder count. Gov. Rick Scott last...
Drug Enforcer Anderson Named Florida’s Insurance Fraud Investigator
Dec 6 2011 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater has named Daniel Anderson to serve as the state’s lead insurance fraud investigator. Anderson will take over as the director of the state’s Division of Insurance...
