Florida authorities have arrested a well-known southwest Florida insurance agent, charging him with larceny and embezzlement of premiums. Reid McDaniel, 33, who was named the honorary mayor of North Fort Myers last year but who also was facing a negligence …
What’s in a name? Thousands of dollars, a lost job, denied insurance coverage and the possibility of a suspended law license for a Mississippi workers’ compensation attorney, apparently. It all has to do with injured workers – both named Dorothy …
Just as a Southeastern U.S. blood center tries to recover from another cyberattack on a health system, others who have lived through the pain offered some words of wisdom in a webinar Tuesday that could help providers minimize disruption as …
The South Carolina Court of Appeals has signaled that employers who offer on-site health clinics may not be immune from tort claims from injured or sickened workers. It’s the latest twist to a question that has bounced around courts and …
The number of Florida claims from Hurricane Debby, filed within five days of the storm, already is almost half of the number of claims filed from Hurricane Idalia in a three-month period. Debby claims by Friday had reached more than …
If a property insurer is going to object to an appraisal panel member’s fee arrangement, it must do so early in the process – not after the panel provides an unfavorable, multimillion-dollar appraisal award. That was the word this week …
Just as another hurricane hit Florida, the child of a central Florida woman is litigating a claim from a previous storm – Hurricane Ian in 2022. This time, though, the plaintiff claims not only breach of contract by a Florida …
Reinsurance in Florida’s long-stressed property insurance market was supposed to have stabilized this year – with only moderate rate increases and more availability. But those calmer waters apparently have not reached the mobile home market, and Florida insurance agents are …
A report from Moody’s Ratings service contends that one good hurricane this year could wipe out the Florida Cat Fund’s reserves, potentially forcing it to place a small surcharge on Florida insurance premiums to finance more debt. But that may …
International treaties preempt state-based legal actions, giving an air transport company an escape from claims on what a hemp producer said was botched paperwork for an overseas hemp shipment, a federal appeals court said. The ruling by the U.S. 4th …
