Latest Florida Headlines
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People and Places
May 8 2006 // Carol Sipe has been named vice president and general manager of operations; Francis “Fran” Graham has been named Southeast director of sales; and Chris Neyrey has been named Southwest director of sales and...
Judge orders Southern Family rehabilitation
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation. To ensure the...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 2006 // News Currents Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to...
People
May 8 2006 // Carol Sipe has been named vice president and general manager of operations; Francis “Fran” Graham has been named Southeast director of sales; and Chris Neyrey has been named Southwest director of sales and...
Judge orders Southern Family rehabilitation
May 8 2006 // Leon County, Fla. Circuit Court Judge Thomas Bateman has ordered Southern Family Insurance Co., one of three financially-troubled property insurers of the Tampa-based Poe Financial Group into rehabilitation. To ensure the...
Gallagher praises legislators’ action on rate relief
May 8 2006 // When the Flordia House and Senate appropriation committees set aside hundreds of millions of dollars to provide insurance rate relief for the state’s homeowners, both the consumer and the insurance industry scored a...
Critics allege wind modelers following politics over science
May 8 2006 // News Currents Risk Management Solutions has defended its hurricane risk models in the face of consumer groups’ criticisms that the models are more political than they are scientific and that they are designed to...
Fla. property bill advances
May 8 2006 // A rapid 25 percent cash buildup for the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund and the establishment of a hurricane mitigation endowment fund to allow homeowners to obtain no-interest loans to implement hurricane mitigation...
Fla. SB 1596, HB 561 Tighten Grip on Insurance Fraud
May 5 2006 // Passage by Florida’s Legislature of Senate Bill 1596 and House Bill 561, sponsored by Sen J.D. Alexander and Rep. David Rivera, Florida’s Legislature has tightened the grip on insurance fraud artists who steal...
Agents’ Group Answers Nine Questions About Poe Financial, Its Subsidiaries
May 5 2006 // Nine questions and answers about the receivership and status of Poe Financial Corp.’s subsidiaries Southern Family and Atlantic Preferred have been provided to Professional Insurance Agents of Florida members who...
Insurers Assoc. Pushes Fla. Legislators for Property Market Reforms
May 5 2006 // On the final day of the Florida legislative session, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America is encouraging legislators to make a commitment to create a healthy and competitive insurance marketplace, which is...
Research Center to Unveil New Hurricane Loss Prediction Model
May 5 2006 // The first public model to project hurricane losses for the State of Florida has been completed by the International Hurricane Research Center in Miami, Fla. The new model already has produced excellent figures on Hurricane...
Fla. Calls for Federal Insurance Subsidy
May 4 2006 // The insurance crisis is not a Florida problem, it is a national problem that demands national solutions, Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO, said after applauding the Florida Legislature for calling on Congress to create a...
21%, 91%, 51% Rate Hikes Requested; S. Fla. Hearings Scheduled
May 3 2006 // The Florida Office of Insurance Regulation has scheduled rate hearings in May for three carriers, Hartford Insurance Co. of the Midwest, Florida Peninsula Insurance Company, and United Property and Casualty. Hartford...
Fla. House Passes Bill Intended to Fix Property Insurance Problems
May 3 2006 // With hurricane season looming just one month away, the Florida House has passed a bill aimed at making sure that if Florida has another bad run of storms there will be insurance companies there to cover people’s...
Gallagher Begins Ground Game in GOP Gubernatorial Primary
May 1 2006 // Tom Gallagher approached Robb Mercado in Valrico, Fla. as he sat outside his house reading the newspaper Saturday and soon was involved in a long discussion about problems with the homeowners insurance market, education...
Gallagher Calls On Lawmakers to Make Insurance Reforms
May 1 2006 // As state lawmakers enter the home stretch of the 2006 legislative session, Tom Gallagher, Florida’s CFO, renewed his call for immediate rate-relief, improved access to property coverage and reforms to help strengthen...
Florida Group Alerts Members About Poe Financial’s Status
Apr 28 2006 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Florida has issued a member alert about Southern Family Insurance, a subsidiary of Poe Financial Group and its subsidiaries, Atlantic Preferred and Florida Preferred. “It’s...
Exotic Warranty Co. Put Into Receivership
Apr 28 2006 // Exotic Warranty Company has been ordered into receivership for purposes of liquidation by Judge Thomas H. Bateman III of the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Leon County and the Florida Department of Financial Services...
Poe Financial Group’s 2005 Statements Go Online
Apr 28 2006 // The 2005 annual statements of Southern Family Insurance Co., Atlantic Preferred Insurance Co. and Florida Preferred Insurance Co. have been posted on the Internet by Kevin McCarty, Florida Insurance Commissioner. “I...
