Latest Florida Headlines
All the headlines from our Florida Topic Page, ordered by recency.
It Figures
Nov 20 2006 // 36% The share of private companies, many of them uninsured, which experienced an employee theft averaging nearly $350,000 within the past five years, according to new research by the Chubb Group of Insurance...
Newcomer Sink, veteran Oxendine elected key insurance players
Nov 20 2006 // A veteran Republican Georgian commissioner and a Democratic novice Florida financial chief promise to play key roles in insurance issues in the Southeast in the years ahead as a result of the midterm elections. When the...
Florida Property & Casualty Insurance Reform Committee Recommendations
Nov 20 2006 // Hurricane Catastrophe Fund Keep the current retention level but consider offering coverage below the retention level/attachment point (first layer of coverage) on a voluntary basis to all admitted companies participating...
Florida Property & Casualty Insurance Reform Committee Recommendations
Nov 19 2006 // Hurricane Catastrophe Fund 1. Keep the current retention level but consider offering coverage below the retention level/attachment point (first layer of coverage) on a voluntary basis to all admitted companies...
Business Moves
Nov 19 2006 // Hiscox, Bermuda Holding Company London’s Hiscox plc outlined its corporate reorganization plan. A new Bermudan domiciled holding company for the Group, Hiscox Ltd., has been established. Shareholders of Hiscox will...
Figures
Nov 19 2006 // 36% The share of private companies, many of them uninsured, which experienced an employee theft averaging nearly $350,000 within the past five years, according to new research by the Chubb Group of Insurance...
News Currents
Nov 19 2006 // Newcomer Sink, veteran Oxendine elected key insurance players A veteran Republican Georgian commissioner and a Democratic novice Florida financial chief promise to play key roles in insurance issues in the Southeast in the...
Fla. Weighs Special Session to Take Up Property Insurance Ideas
Nov 15 2006 // Insurers would be able to buy more reinsurance from the state’s hurricane catastrophe fund and homeowners would be able to buy lower cost policies offering less than complete coverage if recommendations from a...
Gabor Unveils Program for Neighborhood Restaurants in Florida
Nov 9 2006 // Gabor Insurance Services Inc., the Miami based managing general agency, announced a new program, exclusively aimed at small restaurants. Coverage includes property on contents, improvements and betterments and business...
Agents’ Favorite Sink Sinks Lee in Florida CFO Contest
Nov 9 2006 // With a victory in the race for Florida’s Chief Financial Officer, banker and business leader Alex Sink, a Democrat, will take on multiple tasks within the Florida State Cabinet, not the least of which is oversight of...
It Figures
Nov 6 2006 // $20 million The amount about 400 people should receive from monies held by Lexington, Ky., lawyers who sued American Home Products in 2001 on behalf of users of the fen-phen diet drug. Special Judge William Wehr ordered...
Declarations
Nov 6 2006 // Time for changes “When your CEOs are making $26 billion a year, we need to make some changes.” Ginny Stevans, president of Homeowners Against Citizens, a group protesting Florida’s skyrocketing insurance...
Crist, Davis promise different insurance plans for Fla.
Nov 6 2006 // Florida gubernatorial hopefuls Charlie Crist and Jim Davis agree that three challenges facing the state are skyrocketing homeowners insurance rates, rising property taxes and public schools that some rank among the...
SOUTHEAST TOPS TOP 10 HURRICANE-PRONE AREAS
Nov 6 2006 // Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, director of the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University, in Miami released the Top 10 List that nobody wants to be on: the 10 Most Vulnerable U.S. Mainland...
Crist, Davis promise different insurance plans for Fla.
Nov 5 2006 // Florida gubernatorial hopefuls Charlie Crist and Jim Davis agree that three challenges facing the state are skyrocketing homeowners insurance rates, rising property taxes and public schools that some rank among the...
Declarations
Nov 5 2006 // Time for changes “When your CEOs are making $26 billion a year, we need to make some changes.” Ginny Stevans, president of Homeowners Against Citizens, a group protesting Florida’s skyrocketing insurance...
Figures
Nov 5 2006 // $20 million The amount about 400 people should receive from monies held by Lexington, Ky., lawyers who sued American Home Products in 2001 on behalf of users of the fen-phen diet drug. Special Judge William Wehr ordered...
Southeast tops top 10 hurricane-prone areas
Nov 5 2006 // Dr. Stephen P. Leatherman, director of the International Hurricane Research Center at Florida International University, in Miami released the Top 10 List that nobody wants to be on: the 10 Most Vulnerable U.S. Mainland...
Florida FEMA Trailer Park Residents Face Deadline to Move
Nov 2 2006 // Dozens of people left homeless by Hurricane Charley in 2004 faced a midnight Tuesday deadline to move out of a Federal Emergency Management Agency trailer park. Many have said they still don’t know where they would...
BB&T Insurance to Acquire Fla. Agency Wyman, Green & Blalcok
Nov 1 2006 // BB&T Insurance Services plans to expand its Florida operation with the acquisition of Wyman, Green & Blalock Inc. of Bradenton. Founded in 1908, Wyman, Green & Blalock specializes in personal and commercial...
