Latest Florida Headlines
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Board Members Named for Florida’s Citizens Corp.
Aug 17 2011 // Florida officials are filling out the board of governors for Citizens Property and Casualty Corp. Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the appointments of Nancy Baily and Rob Wallace to the board. Baily...
Florida Regulator Taking Citizens Sinkhole Rate Bid on the Road
Aug 16 2011 // South Florida residents will have their say over the state-backed insurer’s proposed triple-digit increase in sinkhole rates as regulators announced they will hold a public hearing on the issue in Tampa on September...
Hampton Joins Florida’s Stahl & Associates
Aug 16 2011 // Stahl & Associates Insurance in St. Petersburg, Fla. has named Hiram Hampton II as the new vice president of business development. Hampton, who previously served as president and chief operating officer of Lykes...
Buechler Joins Florida’s Normandy Harbor Workers’ Compensation Team
Aug 15 2011 // Jayson Buechler has joined Normandy Harbor Insurance Co., a workers’ compensation insurance carrier based in Miami Beach, Fla., as vice president of underwriting. Prior to joining NHIC, Buechler was the vice...
Florida’s Citizens Has Sweet Plan to Cover Hurricane Losses
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
Florida Windfields to Steer Hurricanes
Aug 15 2011 // Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Insurance Journal’s Satire Issue, August 15, 2011. The content in this issue is not real and is not to be taken seriously. It’s supposed to be humorous....
Florida Court Rules Illegal Workers Entitled to Workers’ Compensation
Aug 11 2011 // Florida employers may be under more pressure to document the status of their workers after a panel of state judges ruled that illegal residents who are injured on the job are eligible for workers’ compensation...
Florida Eases Surplus Lines ‘Due Diligence’ Rule for Agents
Aug 10 2011 // Florida insurance agents should have an easier time placing commercial policies with surplus lines carriers under a new law that allows them to offer the coverage without first scouring the admitted market for the...
Florida’s FPIC Insurance Settles Shareholder Litigation
Aug 10 2011 // FPIC Insurance Group has agreed to settle a class action shareholder lawsuit clearing the way for its merger with Fountain Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Doctors Co., of California. The Jacksonville,...
Judge Dismisses Dallas National Suit Vs. Florida Insurance Chief
Aug 8 2011 // A federal judge last week threw out a lawsuit against Florida’s insurance commissioner even though the official had opposed dismissing the case. Commissioner Kevin McCarty argued that keeping the litigation alive...
Florida Officials Weigh Next Step in Citizens’ Rate Hikes
Aug 8 2011 // While state officials are trying to digest Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s proposed triple-digit sinkhole rate increase, other elected officials are taking their case to the public. Senator Mike Fasano, R-New...
Florida Sen. Fasano Plans Rally Against Sinkhole Insurance Rates
Aug 5 2011 // State Sen. Mike Fasano is rallying Florida policyholders to join him in front of the Pasco County Government Center next Tuesday in a sign-waving protest of the proposed sinkhole rate increases sought by Citizens Property...
Acentria Acquires Florida’s Concord Commercial Insurance
Aug 4 2011 // Destin, Florida-based insurance agency Acentria has acquired Concord Commercial Insurance Agency in Punta Gorda, Florida. Bob and Tyler Wilson along with their employees are joining Acentria and continue to offer...
Florida to Investigate Role of Check Cashing Firms in Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Aug 4 2011 // Florida officials are calling for an investigation into the role of check cashing services in helping construction subcontractors avoid paying their fair share of workers’ compensation premiums. Florida Chief...
Florida Considers Phasing-In Big Sinkhole Insurance Rate Hikes
Aug 4 2011 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater has urged state insurance regulators to consider an affordable “glide path” for homeowners seeking to buy sinkhole insurance from Citizens Property Insurance...
Florida Governor Suggests Making PIP Coverage Optional for Drivers
Aug 2 2011 // Florida drivers should have the option to forgo purchasing what is now mandatory auto personal injury protection (PIP) coverage, says Gov. Rick Scott. Following the failure of lawmakers this year to reform the...
Florida Weighs Privatizing State’s Citizens Insurance
Aug 1 2011 // Florida Gov. Rick Scott quickly embraced a recent suggestion by the board chairman of the state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. to consider privatizing Florida’s largest insurer of business and...
Business Moves
Aug 1 2011 // FPIC, The Doctors Co. One of Florida’s major medical malpractice insurers is seeking state approval to be sold to an out-of-state insurance group with the initial price tag expected to total $365 million. The Florida...
Westcott Named Consumer Advocate
Aug 1 2011 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater is naming Robin Westcott, an attorney and longtime insurance watchdog, to the post of Insurance Consumer Advocate. Westcott began her career in 1993 with the Florida Department...
People
Aug 1 2011 // Wholesale insurance broker AmWINS Group Inc. is expanding its operations with a new office location in Morehead City, North Carolina. Karen G. Toler, formerly of Burns & Wilcox, has joined AmWINS to lead this new...
