Latest Florida Headlines
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Excess flood insurance — when the federal plan isn’t sufficient
Aug 7 2006 // The lessons learned from Katrina and Rita and predictions of a future with bigger and stronger storms highlight more than ever the importance of flood insurance, even in locations where it was previously thought...
Florida offers grants to encourage hurricane damage mitigation
Aug 7 2006 // Florida’s Department of Financial Services is working out the details of a program offering grants of up to $5,000 to homeowners who take steps to mitigate hurricane damages. Individual matching grants of up to...
Over-prescribing doctor tops Florida list of 10 ‘costliest, boldest’ scammers
Aug 7 2006 // The Florida Department of Financial Services has released its “Top-10 Fraud List,” summarizing the 10 costliest or boldest scams investigated resulting in convictions from July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006:...
Florida moving ahead with commercial lines reinsurance pool
Aug 7 2006 // Florida is moving to reactivate a state-run reinsurance pool for commercial lines insurance to help businesses obtain insurance. The Commercial Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) is intended to provide property insurance...
Citizens agrees to renew, write new builder’s risk coverage in Florida
Aug 7 2006 // Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has reversed a June decision to cancel its builder’s risk program and agreed to renew existing builder’s risk policies and write new policies in Florida until the end of the...
Vesta liquidation by Texas felt from Florida to Mass.
Aug 7 2006 // Some 70,000 Florida, 150,000 Texas, 5,200 Massachusetts and 11,000 New Jersey policyholders are among those affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its subsidiaries. Texas regulators placed the company...
Hawaii obtains reinsurance to take control of Vesta subsidiary
Aug 7 2006 // Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as previously...
Wagging the dog
Aug 7 2006 // Reinsurance woes send primary carriers scrambling Until recently the reinsurance world was a galaxy far, far away. That changed after the 2000 stock market crash, the Sept. 11 attacks and, more recently, the hurricanes...
Get your motor runnin’ – not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Texas had the dubious honor of coming in third place, with Florida falling in between the two as the state...
News Currents
Aug 7 2006 // Companies step up to take Texas Select policyholders Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the...
Hawaii obtains reinsurance to take control of Vesta subsidiary
Aug 7 2006 // News Currents Some 150,000 Texas homeowners will be affected by the liquidation of Vesta Fire Insurance Co. and its Texas subsidiaries by the Texas Department of Insurance, but the situation seems to be not as dire as...
Wagging the dog
Aug 7 2006 // Until recently the reinsurance world was a galaxy far, far away. That changed after the 2000 stock market crash, the Sept. 11 attacks and, more recently, the hurricanes that struck Florida, New Orleans, Texas and other...
Growth in retail shopping centers a boon for insurance brokers
Aug 7 2006 // When the going gets tough, the tough go … shopping! Judging by the 18 percent increase in the development of retail shopping centers in the United States in 2005 over 2004, that tongue-in-cheek adage has more than a...
Florida to Restart Commercial Reinsurance Pool
Aug 1 2006 // Florida officials authorized a reactivation of a reinsurance pool for commercial lines insurance to help businesses obtain insurance. The Commercial Joint Underwriting Association (JUA is intended to provide property...
Fla. Gov. Bush Eyes State Pool for Commercial Lines
Jul 30 2006 // Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is considering a state-run reinsurance pool or joint underwriting pool to help businesses that can’t get policies from private insurers, saying that if companies can’t get coverage, it...
Ethics Panel Hits Fla.’s Gallagher Over Insurer Stock Holdings
Jul 30 2006 // The ethics commission determined last Friday that Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Gallagher may have violated ethics laws because he owned stock in two insurance companies while regulating the industry. The...
Hazard Mitigation Grant Money Bolstering Fla. Improvement Projects
Jul 27 2006 // Manatee County, Fla. is installing state-of-the-art hurricane shutters on facilities responsible for treating and testing the county’s water supply; while Leesburg, Fla. in Lake County, is placing windproof hurricane...
Editor’s Note: To be, or not be Florida’s governor
Jul 24 2006 // Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rod Smith, of Alachua, Fla., has suggested a four-point plan he believes will fix Florida’s insurance woes. He has to be applauded for publicly acknowledging the...
Former FEMA director promotes government-industry disaster mediation
Jul 24 2006 // Federal and state governments should work with private insurance companies to sponsor disaster mediation programs, according to a former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. James Lee Witt, president of James...
To be, or not be Florida’s governor
Jul 24 2006 // Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rod Smith, of Alachua, Fla., has suggested a four-point plan he believes will fix Florida’s insurance woes. He has to be applauded for publicly acknowledging the...
