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Pa. Court Grants Doctors’ Class Action Over Blues’ Reimbursements
Dec 29 2006 // Thousands of Pennsylvania doctors may be eligible to join a lawsuit over a Blue Cross health plan’s reimbursement rates after a federal judge granted the plaintiffs class-action status. The suit charges that Keystone...
Florida’s Citizens Opens Emergency Operations Center in Deland
Dec 28 2006 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. opened an emergency operations center in Deland, Fla., to help policyholders whose homes were damaged by the Dec. 26 storms and tornadoes in the Volusia County area. The center is at the...
Florida Storm Hotline Ready to Assist Tornado Victims
Dec 27 2006 // Residents whose homes or businesses were damaged by tornados that struck several central Florida counties can call the Florida Department of Financial Services’ storm hotline at 1-800-22-STORM if they need help...
Florida’s Star Casualty Earns B++ Rating from A.M. Best
Dec 27 2006 // In addition to assigning a ‘stable’ outlook for 2007, A.M. Best Co. awarded Star Casualty Insurance Co. of Coral Gables an initial rating of B++. Star Casualty is a domestic property and casualty company that...
2006: a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes
Dec 25 2006 // JANUARY Hallmark Aquires Aerospace Holdings Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark...
People and Places
Dec 25 2006 // Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas Insurance...
It Figures
Dec 25 2006 // 55% The rate hike that Florida’s insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., decided to delay a vote on, following requests from lawmakers to wait until after the January special legislative...
Declarations
Dec 25 2006 // Tort reform impact “It’s difficult to say whether tort reform measures have impacted this slow down in tort costs growth. We have yet to see what, if any, impact the class action reform legislation that was...
Brown & Brown settlement with Florida: no charges, no guilt, no fines
Dec 25 2006 // After being the target of state investigations for more than two years, giant Florida insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. admitted no guilt and faced no charges but opted to pay $5.8 million to bring the probes to a...
Insurance issues have been key in Southeast’s ongoing recovery
Dec 25 2006 // While Mother Nature was nicer to the Southeast and the insurance industry in 2006 than she was in 2005, her potential for destruction was never far from the minds of those living and rebuilding in the Southeast. Insurance...
Dec 24 2006 // People Members of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners elected 2007 officers during the group’s winter meeting in San Antonio. Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter Bell was named president, Kansas...
Brown & Brown settlement with Florida: no charges, no guilt, no fines
Dec 24 2006 // News Currents After being the target of state investigations for more than two years, giant Florida insurance agency Brown & Brown Inc. admitted no guilt and faced no charges but opted to pay $5.8 million to bring the...
Figures
Dec 24 2006 // 55% The rate hike that Florida’s insurer of last resort, Citizens Property Insurance Corp., decided to delay a vote on, following requests from lawmakers to wait until after the January special legislative...
Top 10 Stories of the Year – Southeast
Dec 24 2006 // While Mother Nature was nicer to the Southeast and the insurance industry in 2006 than she was in 2005, her potential for destruction was never far from the minds of those living and rebuilding in the Southeast. Insurance...
Declarations
Dec 24 2006 // Tort reform impact “It’s difficult to say whether tort reform measures have impacted this slow down in tort costs growth. We have yet to see what, if any, impact the class action reform legislation that was...
2006:a big year for P&C buyers and sellers of all shapes and sizes
Dec 24 2006 // JANUARY Hallmark Acquires Fort Worth, Texas-based Hallmark Financial Services Inc. has completed its acquisition of Aerospace Holdings LLC, which markets general aviation insurance products. Hallmark underwrites...
Insurance Surcharges Add up for Florida Property Owners
Dec 22 2006 // Many Floridians already facing soaring insurance rates will be hit by additional surcharges that could tack another 9 percent to their premiums next year, according to the association that pays claims for defunct...
Skyrocketing Insurance Rates Part of Gov. Bush’s Legacy
Dec 19 2006 // Earlier this year, Ginny Stevans began compiling the “book of tears” – dozens of e-mails from Floridians who are suffering because of skyrocketing property insurance rates. Stevans, president of a Pasco...
Hurricanes Provide Florida with Practice for Handling Possible Pandemic
Dec 19 2006 // Hurricanes and flu outbreaks wouldn’t seem to have much in common. But Florida officials say that if a global outbreak of influenza emerges, sickening millions, many of the lessons learned responding to storms would...
Supreme Court: Florida Insurance Law Doesn’t Cover ‘Snowbirds’
Dec 18 2006 // “Snowbirds” and other part-time Florida residents who insure their cars back home cannot make claims under Florida laws that may be more favorable to them than those in their own states, the state Supreme Court...
