Latest Florida Headlines
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MarketScout Wholesale Expands with Florida Office Headed by Lyons
Jul 8 2010 // MarketScout Wholesale (MSW) has expanded operations opening a new location in Tampa, Florida. Greg Lyons joined MSW to lead Florida operations as a senior broker. Prior to joining MSW, Lyons was a property broker with...
Latin Insurance Agent Groups Growing, Going Mainstream
Jul 7 2010 // A group of New York insurance agents has launched a new trade group for Latin insurance producers as well as brokers who serve the Hispanic community in the Northeast. LABA is not the first group geared toward insurance...
Post Office Says System Worked; No Florida Citizens Insurance Mail Lost
Jul 7 2010 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance might not be missing any mail or checks from customers after all, although the insurer can’t be 100 percent certain. Insurance Journal and other media reported yesterday...
Florida’s Citizens Insurance Missing Week’s Worth of Mail, Checks
Jul 6 2010 // Citizens Property Insurance has learned that some of its mail has been fraudulently forwarded to another address, raising the possibility some customer payments may have been lost. Citizens said it was informed by the U.S....
Staged Accidents Soar 58% in Florida
Jul 5 2010 // The number of suspicious auto accidents that were staged or deliberately caused by criminals in Florida has increased dramatically in the past year. A study by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) of questionable...
Florida Jury Awards $2.4 Million in First Chinese Drywall Trial
Jul 5 2010 // A Florida couple who fled their dream home because of foul-smelling, ruinous Chinese drywall was awarded $2.4 million in damages in America’s first jury trial over the defective wallboard that could have legal...
Non-Resident Blogger Can Be Sued in Florida Over Defamation
Jul 5 2010 // The Florida Supreme Court has ruled that a non-resident blogger can be sued in the state for posting allegedly defamatory comments about a Florida company on her out-of-state Web site. In a unanimous opinion, the court...
Florida Court Says Fishermen Can Sue Polluter; Is BP Next?
Jul 5 2010 // With BP’s offshore oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico as a backdrop, the Florida Supreme Court recently ruled that commercial fishermen may sue a company that discharged pollutants into Tampa Bay for lost income and...
Business Moves
Jul 5 2010 // Keystone, Latta Latta Insurance Services Inc. of Henderson, Ky., has become Keystone Insurers Group’s seventeenth franchise partner in Kentucky.Latta Insurance Services President Williams S. Latta announced the new...
Jul 5 2010 // 77.2% In most hurricane-prone states, homeowners have few choices for insurance coverage, with just eight property and casualty insurers in each state controlling up to 77.2 percent of the market share, according to Weiss...
Florida Family’s Corrigan Receives Insurance Council Honor
Jul 2 2010 // Peter Corrigan, president of Florida Family Insurance Co., was recently presented with the Florida Insurance Council’s 2010 Wade E. Holland, Jr. Distinguished Service Award during the trade association’s annual...
Special Reuters Report: Oil Spill a Gusher for Lawyers; Litigation May Take Years
Jun 30 2010 // BP payout should far exceed what Exxon spent on Valdez The company’s $20 billion fund may not be enough Accountability may take years if not decades to assess Many federal laws allow civil, criminal liability From a...
Homeowners Offered Few Insurance Choices in Hurricane States
Jun 28 2010 // In most hurricane-prone states, homeowners have few choices of insurance coverage, with just eight property and casualty insurers in each state controlling up to 77.2 percent of the market share, according to Weiss...
Towers Watson Boosts Florida Operations with Betz, Stofko
Jun 24 2010 // Strengthening its presence in the Florida property/ casualty market, global professional services company Towers Watson has appointed two industry veterans with experience in the state. Robert Betz has been named practice...
Florida Jury Awards $2.4 Million in First Chinese Drywall Trial
Jun 23 2010 // A Florida couple who fled their dream home because of foul-smelling, ruinous Chinese drywall was awarded $2.4 million in damages last Friday in America’s first jury trial over the defective wallboard that could have...
Florida Court Says Fishermen Can Sue Polluter; Is BP Next?
Jun 23 2010 // With BP’s offshore oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico as a backdrop, the Florida Supreme Court has ruled that commercial fishermen can sue a company that discharged pollutants into Tampa Bay for lost income and profits...
Safety Concerns Rise As Golf Carts Take to the Streets
Jun 22 2010 // When Shannon Wiegert bought the new, bright red golf cart for scooting around car shows, he didn’t think to ask about safety features on the slow-moving vehicle. And when his little girl begged his older daughter for...
Florida Approves MedMal Direct for Sale of Malpractice Insurance
Jun 22 2010 // Jacksonville-based MedMal Direct Insurance Co. has officially launched operations as a medical malpractice insurance company in Florida. The company, which sells insurance directly to physicians community without the use...
Florida Orders Infinity Surety to Halt Operations in State
Jun 21 2010 // Florida insurance regulators have ordered a Texas surety insurance firm, Infinity Surety, to halt all business in Florida. Officials say the insurer was never authorized to sell in Florida. The Florida Office of Insurance...
