Latest Florida Headlines
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LIG Marine Announces Three Commercial Marine Insurance Seminars
Mar 2 2005 // A series of three one-day seminars on commercial marine insurance have been scheduled in April, May and September by LIG Educational & Consulting Services, a sister-company of LIG Marine Managers in St. Petersburg,...
FSLSO Creates Digital Online Classroom, Stresses Online Education
Mar 2 2005 // The Florida Surplus Lines Service Office in Tallahassee has made a concerted effort to create a digital online classroom to improve educational resources to provide quick and quality service at its customers’...
Solving Citizens Problems ‘Tops’ on Fla. Legislators To-Do List
Feb 28 2005 // Solving numerous problems with Citizens Property Insurance Co., Florida’s insurer of last-resort, tops the to-do lists of many legislators, lobbyists and industry groups going into the March sessions of the Florida...
Online Fla. Insurance Agent Licensing Course Offered
Feb 25 2005 // The Florida Insurance Licensing Association has announced Florida’s first 100% online insurance agent licensing course. This 40-Hour course (2-15 Life, Health & Variable Annuity) is required to become an...
Fla. PIA Honors Tom Sanzenbacher as ‘2004 Company Rep of the Year’
Feb 21 2005 // Tom Sanzenbacher has received the Professional Insurance Agents of Florida’s award as the “2004 Company Representative of the Year.” Donnie McMahon, PIA of Florida’s immediate past president,...
Citizens Lost First Round; Stalling Payments Until After Another Court Decision
Feb 21 2005 // Citizens Property Insurance Co. is in the limelight again, this time because it is refusing to pay property losses, even after losing a South Florida appeals court decision. Hurricane Irene brought both wind and water when...
Nominations Open for Third Annual CHOICE Workers’ Compensation Awards
Feb 21 2005 // A call for nominations for the third annual Florida CHOICE Awards for Workers’ Compensation has been issued by CHOICE Medical Management Services LLC of Tampa, Fla. The program recognizes physicians who deliver...
Hurricane Victims to Submit Multiple Deductible Information
Feb 21 2005 // Homeowners eligible to receive compensation for multiple hurricane deducti-bles have been called on by Florida’s CFO Tom Gallagher to file their applications for relief so they are received in Tallahassee before...
People & Places
Feb 21 2005 // M. Lee Patkus M. Lee Patkus has been named regional vice president of the Florida region of Hanover Insurance Co. Effective Feb. 1 Patkus became responsible for commercial and personal lines distribution, marketing and...
PCI Urges Market-Oriented Solutions to Florida’s Hurricane Insurance Issues
Feb 18 2005 // The Florida Joint Select Committee on Hurricane Insurance, meeting in Tallahassee this week, approved a series of recommendations for the Legislature that broadly affect the state’s property insurance market and...
22 Insurance-Fraud Ring Members Apprehended; Fla. Warns Others About Tough Penalties
Feb 18 2005 // A campaign to point out the consequences of staging an auto accident or participating in auto insurance fraud has been launched by the Florida Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud. The...
Citizens Predicts $400 Million Deficit; Fla. Joint Selective Committee to Hear Recommendations Tomorrow
Feb 16 2005 // An estimated $400 million shortfall in Citizens Property Insurance Corp.’s high-risk account was confirmed yesterday by Citizens spokesman Justin Glover in meetings in Orlando with the company’s board of...
Rep. Cannon: Hurricanes Provided Valuable Lesson; Citizens Concerns PIA Members
Feb 15 2005 // The silver lining to last year’s hurricanes proved that without adequate compensation for agents, there will be trouble when claims need to be settled, freshman Rep. Dean Cannon (R-Winter Park) told Professional...
532,000 Fla. Mobile Home Owners Could Face Costly Premium Increases
Feb 14 2005 // Six months after four hurricanes tore through Florida, more than 532,000 mobile home owners in the state could soon face costly premium increases or lose coverage according to Sam Miller, executive vice president of the...
Brown & Brown Acquires Emerald Benefits Inc.
Feb 14 2005 // Brown & Brown Inc., with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Fla. has announced the acquisition of retail insurance agency Emerald Benefits Inc. of Weston, Fla. Emerald Benefits, with annualized revenues of approximately...
Prime Now Writing Surplus Lines in Florida
Feb 10 2005 // The Prime Insurance Syndicate Inc. (www.primeis.com) has received approval to write surplus lines insurance business in Florida effective as of Feb. 9. Prime, which offers solutions for hard-to-place risks, will offer...
Fla. CFO, Legislators to Address Feb. 15 PIAF Legislative Day
Feb 8 2005 // Important insurance issues will be addressed by prominent members of the Florida Legislature and Tom Gallagher, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Department of Financial Services during the Professional...
Fla. Schedules Public Hearings on Rate Increase
Feb 7 2005 // Four public hearings have been scheduled March 1 in Florida to discuss Nationwide Insurance’s proposed 28.3 percent statewide average rate increase for homeowner’s insurance policies. Two hearings are scheduled...
Foxes Watching the Hen-House
Feb 7 2005 // Four months before the hurricane season, storm clouds are forming due to insurance reform measures suggested by Sen. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton. Klein told South Florida television stations and newspapers it’s essential...
Fla. Arrests Unlicensed Adjusters
Feb 7 2005 // Florida insurance fraud investigators arrested two unlicensed public adjusters, one in Broward County and one in Orange County. These arrests bring the total to seven unlicensed public adjusters arrested in the aftermath...
