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Dec 18 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced four individuals, including two Miami physicians, have been arrested for allegedly participating in an organization that illegally...
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Dec 18 2005 // FLORIDA State Farm of Florida 8.6 Percent Rate Request Approved The Florida Department of Insurance approved an average statewide premium rate hike of 8.6 percent for State Farm of Florida, the largest insurer of homes in...
Fla. Removes Internet-based ‘Pill Mills’
Dec 16 2005 // The arrests of three South Floridians on charges they operated unlicensed Internet-based “pill mills” have been announced by Attorney General Charlie Crist and Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner...
Florida Authorities ‘Draw a Line in the Sand,’ Tighten Workers’ Comp Enforcement
Dec 16 2005 // In October, 2003, when the Florida Legislature approved an updated workers’ compensation program, legislators “drew a line in the sand,” according to Andrew Sabolic, chief of the Florida Bureau of...
Citizens Approves 45 Percent Coastal Rate Increase, 21 Percent Inland
Dec 15 2005 // The Citizens Property Insurance Corp. board of governors has decided to approve higher premium increases that average 45 percent on Florida’s coast and 21 percent inland. The state’s insurer of last resort had...
Hurricane Experts Mayfield, Bailey, Key Speakers at Feb. 8 Windstorm Insurance Conference
Dec 14 2005 // Two leading hurricane experts, Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, and Bill Bailey, director of the Hurricane Insurance Information Center will summarize the conclusion of the 2005 hurricane season and...
‘Certificates of Insurance, The Second Most Dangerous Piece of Paper,’ Jan. 9 CPCU Topic
Dec 12 2005 // Bill Perkins, a Florida Association of Insurance Agents instructor will present, “Certificates of Insurance, The Second Most Dangerous Piece of Paper,” a three-hour continuing education course, during the Jan....
Hurricane Wilma Reduced Fla. Orange Growers Production
Dec 9 2005 // Hurricane Wilma darkened the outlook for Florida orange growers, reducing production estimates by 15 percent, the Agriculture Department said. Still, this year’s crop will outdo last year’s by about 8 percent...
Florida Proposes Strict Insurance Fraud Reporting Requirements
Dec 8 2005 // Strict insurance fraud reporting requirements will soon be initiated by the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud, according to Tom Gallagher, Department of Financial Services CFO. In the wake of multiple hurricanes DFS has...
Md.’s Johns Hopkins Leads Effort on Disaster, Terror Response
Dec 8 2005 // How governments can best prevent, prepare and respond to mass casualties, whether from natural events such as Hurricane Katrina or a terror attack, is the mission of a new center led by Johns Hopkins University. A $15...
Zelman Receives PIA of Florida’s ‘Leadership Award’
Dec 8 2005 // Phil Zelman, vice president and co-owner of NCF Insurance Associates in Coral Gables, was awarded the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida’s “Leadership Award” at the PIA of Florida board of directors...
FEMA Urges Floridians to Buy Flood Insurance; Floods #1 on List of U.S. Natural Disasters
Dec 6 2005 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a plea urging all Florida residents that own property designated by the National Flood Insurance Program as being in a high-risk flood area they need to obtain flood...
States Claim National Catastrophe Plan Would Save Taxpayers
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York, on the heels of last month’s National Catastrophe Insurance Summit, are peddling a national catastrophe insurance program that they say would aid...
States Claim National Catastrophe Plan Would Save Taxpayers
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York, on the heels of last month’s National Catastrophe Insurance Summit, are peddling a national catastrophe insurance program that they say would aid...
EMA DIRECTOR ADDRESSES WEAKNESSES
Dec 5 2005 // The failures that left thousands of Florida residents unprepared for Hurricane Wilma should be addressed by launching a new election-style marketing campaign, expanding the tax-free shopping week and beefing up...
FAIA YOUNG AGENTS COUNCIL FORMED
Dec 5 2005 // A new Young Agents Council has been formed by the Florida Association of Insurance Agents in Tallahassee, Fla., to perpetuate the future of the independent insurance agency system by serving as a unified voice of young...
Insurance Commissioners Announce Framework for National Cat Program
Dec 5 2005 // Insurance regulators from California, Florida, Illinois and New York, on the heels of the National Catastrophe Insurance Summit held in November, are peddling the framework for a national catastrophe insurance program that...
FAIA: Employment Crisis Threatens Agencies
Dec 5 2005 // An impending employment crisis is threatening independent insurance agents and will become disastrous by 2010 unless employers act now, Lisa Harrington, Florida Association of Insurance Agents vice president of education...
Statewide Code to Guide Rebuilding in Louisiana
Dec 5 2005 // The Louisiana Legislature passed a measure creating a mandatory, uniform statewide building code that proponents believe will not only help build a more structurally stable Loui-siana but will help keep insurance rates...
SAFECO SEES AFTER-TAX LOSSES FROM WILMA AT $29 MILLION
Dec 5 2005 // Seattle-based Safeco has announced estimated after-tax catastrophe losses from Hurricane Wilma of $29 million, or $0.23 per diluted share. Pretax catastrophe losses from the storm are estimated at $45 million. Those...
