Would Letting Roofers Do More Wind-Mitigation Work Help Reduce Florida’s Insured Losses in Storms? November 18, 2024 By William Rabb A recent photograph of destruction left by Hurricane Milton’s wind tells the story: An entire roof section on a residential...
Florida Commission Accepts Three New Flood Models as Storm Impacts Rise November 14, 2024 By William Rabb As with computer models that help predict risk from hurricane winds, insurers now have more than one model to use...
‘Board Certified’ Could Soon Be an Advertising Thing for Florida Insurance Lawyers November 7, 2024 By William Rabb By this time next year, plaintiffs lawyers, who have frequently been held up as thorns in the side of the...
Would Letting Roofers Do More Wind-Mit Work Help Cut Florida’s Insured Losses? November 4, 2024 By William Rabb A recent photograph of destruction left by Hurricane Milton’s wind tells the story: An entire roof section on a residential...
Florida Rule Bars Altering Adjusters’ Reports Without Explanation November 4, 2024 By William Rabb Almost two years after a group of independent claims adjusters alleged that insurers had deceptively altered their damage estimates and...
Employees Enjoy Many Paths for Growth, Advancement at Brightway November 4, 2024 By William Rabb The people at Brightway Insurance, based in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, near Jacksonville, seem to have taken employee satisfaction and...
KBRA Says Florida Insurers Will Weather the Storms; Cat Fund Can Handle Payouts November 1, 2024 By William Rabb Florida’s Hurricane Catastrophe Fund, a state-created layer of reinsurance, expects to pay out about $4.6 billion to help cover insurers’...
Insurer Not Liable if Bank Improperly Cashes Insurance Check, Appeals Court Finds November 1, 2024 By William Rabb Insurance carriers are not responsible if a bank improperly cashes a check made out to two insureds and gives the...
Fla. DFS Offers to Check Contracts With Roofers, Adjusters; Tenn. Eyes Claims Denials October 30, 2024 By William Rabb Officials in two Southeastern states have taken steps to hold insurers or recipients of insurance funds accountable after Hurricanes Helene...
Judge Cans North Carolina Captive’s Claims That Managers Stole Software October 29, 2024 By William Rabb Six months after a North Carolina captive insurance firm for nursing homes around the country accused its managers of poaching...