Latest Florida Headlines
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Build Smart With Passive Protection Systems, Safety Institute CEO Says
Sep 26 2008 // To hear Julie Rochman tell it, she’d like every community in the United States to be resilient in the face of natural disasters. Rochman, president and CEO of the Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and...
Defending Properties Against Natural Catastrophes
Sep 22 2008 // Build Smart With Passive Protection Systems, Safety Institute CEO Says To hear Julie Rochman tell it, she’d like every community in the United States to be resilient in the face of natural disasters. Rochman,...
Study Finds Economic Costs of Federal Cat Legislation Significant
Sep 22 2008 // Taxpayers In At Least 20 States Could Face Multi-Billion Dollar Tax Burden Natural catastrophe legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives and pending in the U.S. Senate would create a multi-billion dollar...
How Agents Prepared and Fared as Gustav Hit Gulf States
Sep 22 2008 // On the morning of Sept. 1, Gustav’s eye made landfall on the Louisiana coast just shy of Category 3 status. Experts estimate Gustav caused about $8 billion to $10 billion in insured damage. On Aug. 29 as Hurricane...
People
Sep 22 2008 // Jacksonville, Florida-based Harden & Associates, an insurance brokerage company, promoted Dustin Theilacker to chief information officer. As CIO, Theilacker will continue to provide technology vision and leadership...
It Figures
Sep 22 2008 // 40,000 The number of tourists officials estimated on Alabama beaches on Labor Day weekend when Gov. Bob Riley issued a mandatory evacuation order for some coastal parts of Mobile and Baldwin counties in response to...
Business Moves
Sep 22 2008 // CRC Insurance, Southern Risk CRC Insurance Services Inc., the wholesale insurance subsidiary of BB&T Corp., has completed a purchase of Southern Risk Operations LLC. Sumter, S.C.-based Southern Risk is an excess and...
Blogs Can Get Insurance Clients ‘SLAPP’ed
Sep 22 2008 // A Dade County, Florida real estate developer in January 2008 filed a $25 million lawsuit against a real estate blogger alleging, among other charges, defamation of character based on the blogger’s opinion published...
Blogs Can Get Insurance Clients ‘SLAPP’ed
Sep 22 2008 // A Dade County, Florida real estate developer in January 2008 filed a $25 million lawsuit against a real estate blogger alleging, among other charges, defamation of character based on the blogger’s opinion published...
Defending Properties Against Natural Catastrophes
Sep 22 2008 // Build Smart With Passive Protection Systems, Safety Institute CEO Says To hear Julie Rochman tell it, she’d like every community in the United States to be resilient in the face of natural disasters. Rochman,...
Defending Properties Against Natural Catastrophes
Sep 22 2008 // Build Smart With Passive Protection Systems, Safety Institute CEO Says To hear Julie Rochman tell it, she’d like every community in the United States to be resilient in the face of natural disasters. Rochman,...
Florida Cabinet Approves Insurance Regulator’s New Reinsurance Rule
Sep 16 2008 // Financially sound unaccredited reinsurance companies can now conduct business in Florida without having to post 100 percent collateral. The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation announced that the Florida Cabinet, in its...
3 Arrested in Florida for Alleged Asbestos Dumping
Sep 15 2008 // Three men have been arrested for allegedly dumping asbestos tiles in the protected wetlands area known as Florida’s Green Swamp. Forty-three loads of debris containing asbestos from a demolition site at Florida...
September Is Florida Preparedness Month
Sep 11 2008 // Governor Charlie Crist has proclaimed September 2008 as ‘Florida Preparedness Month,’ in tandem with the annual federal outreach program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for ‘National...
Homeowners Choice Takes-out 59,500 Florida-backed Citizens Policies
Sep 11 2008 // Homeowners Choice Inc., a Florida-based provider of homeowners’ insurance, announced that its wholly-owned insurance subsidiary, Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Co. Inc., received the go-head to...
Florida Orders State Farm to Refund $120 Million for Mitigation Discounts
Sep 10 2008 // Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty ordered State Farm Florida to issue credits or refunds totaling $120 million to current and former policyholders who did not apply for or who did not receive the windstorm loss...
Associated Risk Managers Looks to Florida and the Southeast
Sep 10 2008 // Itasca, Illinois-based Associated Risk Managers is implementing expansion efforts across the Southeast, beginning with Florida. According to ARM Chairman, Larry McSpadden, ARM members Lewis Maddux and Danny Gleason teamed...
Florida Gov. Appoints 5 to Public Task Force on Workplace Safety
Sep 9 2008 // Florida Gov. Charlie Crist appointed five members to the state’s newly created Public Task Force on Workplace Safety. All of the following are appointed for terms beginning Sept. 4 and ending Jan. 1, 2009: •...
Florida-based McAuley Woods Hires New Chief Financial Officer
Sep 9 2008 // Katharina “Kathy” Houser joined West Palm Beach, Florida-based McAuley Woods and Associates, a national wholesale insurance brokerage, as its new chief financial officer and chief operating...
Florida-based Comegys Insurance Acquires Jakhotia Insurance Group
Sep 9 2008 // St. Petersburg, Florida-based Comegys Insurance recently acquired Tampa-based Jakhotia Insurance Group. The employees of both firms will combine all operations in Comegys’ offices in St. Petersburg effective...
