Latest Florida Headlines
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Gallatin Point Buys Majority Stake in American Family’s Florida Unit, Has National Plans
Jan 4 2024 // If you can make it in Florida, you can make it anywhere—especially if you have a billion dollars in capital. That may be the thinking behind a plan by Gallatin Point Capital to purchase a majority stake in Trusted...
Florida Labor Supplier Sentenced to 12 Months for Tax, WC Insurance Fraud
Jan 4 2024 // The head of a Tampa-area labor supplier has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to defrauding the IRS and workers’ compensation insurers out of millions of dollars. A federal judge in Tampa...
Florida Bill Would Require Option of Policies That Cover Only Unpaid Mortgage Amount
Jan 4 2024 // Ahead of Florida’s 2024 legislative session that begins Jan. 9, at least a dozen bills have been filed that could have an impact on the state’s insureds and insurers. It’s a sign that lawmakers are under...
Army Corps Approves Massive Beach Renourishment for Jacksonville Area
Jan 3 2024 // The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has given approval to a $32 million plan to renourish much of the critically eroded beaches near Jacksonville, a project that could throw a lifeline to tourism and insured properties in the...
Brown & Brown Adds Caton-Hosey Agency in Florida
Jan 2 2024 // Florida-based Brown & Brown Insurance, ranked as the sixth-largest independent brokerage in the country, has acquired Caton-Hosey Insurance, a personal and business-lines agency in Port Orange, Florida. The agency was...
Top Insurance Journal Florida Stories of 2023
Jan 2 2024 // Weather, windshields and reform were the most-read Insurance Journal stories for Florida readers in 2023, continuing a trend seen in recent years as insureds, insurers and lawmakers continued to manage the property...
Florida Countertop Firm Owner Killed in Helicopter Crash
Dec 29 2023 // MIAMI (AP) — Emergency workers in south Florida this week tried to rescue a 71-year-old pilot of a helicopter that crashed into a canal. The man’s daughter swam to safety but the pilot could not be saved,...
Top Southeast Insurance Journal Stories of 2023
Dec 29 2023 // Outside of the turbulent state of Florida, the Southeastern U.S. saw its share of insurance issues, from carriers pulling out of Georgia to roof-matching requirements in Kentucky to liquor liability problems in South...
En Route to Grandma’s House, 6-year-old Put on Wrong Flight to Florida
Dec 28 2023 // FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A 6-year-old boy who left on a flight to visit his grandmother in southwest Florida instead was put on the wrong plane and ended up 160 miles away in Orlando, Florida. When the grandmother,...
Florida Suit Over Charged Lemonade Death Puts New Focus on Energy Drink Safety
Dec 28 2023 // Panera Bread Co. must face a lawsuit over a death allegedly linked to its new line of “charged” lemonades, which have thrust the company into the spotlight and brought a renewed focus on the safety of...
NC Appeals Court Says Injured Off-Duty Law Officers are Joint Employees
Dec 27 2023 // The question has arisen many times around the country: Is an injured, off-duty law officer, moonlighting on security or traffic control, considered an employee of the law enforcement division or a private company? The...
Police Searching for Suspect in Deadly Florida Mall Shooting
Dec 26 2023 // OCALA, Fla. (AP) — Authorities in central Florida issued an arrest warrant Sunday for a 39-year-old man accused of fatally shooting another man at a shopping mall two days before Christmas in which police say the...
Viewpoint: Florida High Court Tapped Brakes On Dangerous Instrumentality Liability
Dec 26 2023 // Floridians concerned about liability when sharing their automobiles with children or friends can relax a bit after the Florida Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the state’s long-standing dangerous...
Risk Strategies Buys Florida-based Setnor Byer Brokerage
Dec 22 2023 // Risk Strategies, a specialty insurance brokerage, has acquired Setnor, Byer, Boganoff Inc., which does business as Setnor Byer Insurance & Risk, a Fort Lauderdale-area brokerage and risk management firm. Terms of the...
What is ‘Incurred Cost’ in Insurance Policy? Florida Appeals Court Weighs in
Dec 22 2023 // Property insurance contracts often contain provisions requiring insureds to “incur” costs before insurance companies issue payments. For example, “ordinance or law” provisions provide “you may...
Novo Nordisk Sues Florida Pharmacies After Finding Impurity in Compounded Wegovy
Dec 21 2023 // (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk has sued one compounding pharmacy and refiled a lawsuit against another after finding their products claiming to contain the active ingredient for its in-demand weight-loss drug Wegovy were...
30 Florida Counties Join Suit Against Tax-Bill-Based Home Hardening Program
Dec 21 2023 // Tax collectors in more than 30 Florida counties have joined a lawsuit against a home-hardening and energy efficiency program, arguing that it misleads homeowners and saddles them with huge property tax bills. The Florida...
Gas Eyed as Source of South Florida House Explosion That Injured 4
Dec 20 2023 // WEST PARK, Fla. (AP) — Four people were injured in an explosion early Tuesday that severely damaged a Florida house, authorities said. Investigators were focused on gas as the possible cause. The Broward Sheriff`s...
Bird Global, Which Started the Scooter Craze, Files for Bankruptcy in Florida
Dec 20 2023 // (Bloomberg) — Bird Global Inc., the company that put electric scooters onto the sidewalks of major cities, filed for bankruptcy with a plan to sell itself two years after raising $414 million from shareholders. The...
Parkland Deputy’s Legal Team Says He had No Duty to Confront Gunman
Dec 20 2023 // FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida sheriff`s deputy is claiming he had no legal duty to confront the gunman who murdered 17 people and wounded 17 others at Parkland`s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School...
