Latest Florida Headlines
All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Developer Pulls Out of Fla. Barrier Island Project
Aug 1 2007 // The Florida Coalition for Preservation was glad to hear that the developer of the Briny Breezes, Fla., redevelopment plan, Boca Raton-based Ocean Land Investments, has pulled out of the multimillion dollar deal to jam the...
Florida’s Self-Employed Reminded About Open Season
Aug 1 2007 // August is open enrollment month for single-group employers to get health insurance or switch plans on a guaranteed-issue basis, meaning insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations must offer coverage without regard to...
Florida Opens Giant Warehouse to Stockpile Disaster Supplies
Jul 31 2007 // Florida opened a 200,000 square-foot warehouse and joint command center last week for disaster response, which will hold millions worth of stockpiled commodities. The warehouse, located in an industrial park not far from...
Fla. Gov. Opens State Response Center for Disaster Preparedness
Jul 30 2007 // Florida Gov. Charlie Crist proclaimed July 26 “Get a Plan Day” by announcing the grand opening of Florida’s State Response Center in Orlando. Crist stressed the importance of disaster preparedness by...
Florida Sinkhole Policy Changes to Highlight Citizens’ Forum
Jul 26 2007 // Changes in sinkhole coverage made during Florida’s regular and special legislative sessions affect residents in Pasco and Hernando counties. Citizens policyholders in those counties will automatically be provided...
Still time to register for Private Sector Summit on Florida property insurance market
Jul 26 2007 // Property insurers in Florida are facing a crisis as they try to deal with the impact of drastic changes imposed on them with the recent enactment of the property insurance law (HB 1A) that contains new mandates. How to...
More Fla. Mobile Home Owners are Skipping Insurance
Jul 25 2007 // More than half of Florida’s 800,000 mobile homes are no longer covered by homeowner’s insurance – another sign of the state’s soaring insurance costs. The number of insured Florida mobile homes...
Associated Industries of Florida Forms Financial Security Council
Jul 25 2007 // Formation of a Financial Security Council will provide an opportunity for business leaders across Florida to focus on key financial service issues such as development of public policy recommendations on property insurance,...
Copart Expands in Florida
Jul 25 2007 // Copart Inc. announced the opening of its 12th salvage facility in the state of Florida. Located in Punta Gorda, the 20.6-acre greenfield facility will serve the Ft. Meyers area and all of southwest Florida. “This...
State Rejects Fla. Farm Bureau Home Insurance Rate Increase
Jul 23 2007 // The state will deny a planned home insurance rate increase by Florida Farm Bureau’s two property insurance companies, which have about 140,000 homeowners policies, the Office for Insurance Regulation said. Florida...
State Farm to Drop 50,000 Coastal Homeowners Policies in Fla.
Jul 23 2007 // State Farm Insurance, Florida’s largest private home insurer, said it will drop about 50,000 homeowners policies next year in what it considers risky areas along the coast. Most of the homes and condos that will lose...
Congress gets serious about surplus lines insurance reform
Jul 23 2007 // Legislation passes House, heads for the Senate; but not all in the industry think it’s the answer as now written Insurance regulatory reform efforts on Capitol Hill took a giant leap forward with the recent House...
Insurers refute Fla. Gov. Crist’s ‘broken promises’
Jul 23 2007 // Insurance companies have taken exception to a reported accusation by Florida Gov. Charlie Crist that the insurance industry has broken its promises to lower rates. In the July 3, 2007, edition of the South Florida...
Fla. CFO Sink halts department’s disposal of consumer complaint records
Jul 23 2007 // A Florida agency has stopped disposing of records related to consumer disputes with insurance companies after lawyers and open records advocates decried the loss of a wealth of information that could be used to hold the...
Florida’s workers’ comp trust fund coffers overflowing with cash
Jul 23 2007 // It’s almost unheard of for a state to try to stave off positive cash flow, but for its overstuffed workers’ compensation trust fund, that’s what Florida is doing. With more than three times the amount of...
The tale of two states
Jul 23 2007 // For years the insurance industry has fought desperately to reduce or eliminate burdensome governmental regulation, insisting that competitive market forces will adequately regulate the industry. Deregulation has dominated...
The tale of two states
Jul 23 2007 // For years the insurance industry has fought desperately to reduce or eliminate burdensome governmental regulation, insisting that competitive market forces will adequately regulate the industry. Deregulation has dominated...
Congress gets serious about surplus lines insurance reform
Jul 23 2007 // Insurance regulatory reform efforts on Capitol Hill took a giant leap forward with the recent House passage of HR 1065, the Non-Admitted and Reinsurance Reform Act of 2007. Sponsored by Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kan., and Rep....
Few Families Accept Florida Contaminated Land Buyout
Jul 20 2007 // Federal officials have offered to buy dozens of homes built near a Superfund site in Pensacola, Fla., but only a handful of families have taken offers. The six families that have agreed to sell their homes are among 55...
Tenn. Annuity Dealer in Receivership, Florida Follows Up
Jul 18 2007 // Following up on a warning she issued in April, Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink is now advising Florida consumers who made annuity transactions with the unauthorized Tennessee-based National Foundation of America...
