Southeast News for January 2024
- Move to End Georgia’s Direct-Action Lawsuits vs. Trucking Insurers Gaining Steam
- Murdaugh Denied New Trial After Judge Hears Jury-Tampering Claims
- Expanding Bus Fleets Could Improve Risk, Safety for Schools, Kentucky Lawmakers Say
- Kentucky House Endorses Paid Family Leave Insurance Bill
- Florida Bills Would Let Surplus Lines Do Takeouts and Require More Data Reporting
- Latin American Agents Offer Membership to USF Insurance Students
- Mississippi Lawmakers Approve Incentives for 2 Large Amazon Data Centers
- Former Prominent Georgia Labor Lawyer Who Shot Wife Sentenced to 8 Years
- Three in Miami Charged with Workers’ Comp Payroll Fraud
- COVID Liability Immunity Includes Slips and Falls at Hospital – Alabama High Court
- Residents Fight Planned Monkey-Breeding Farm in South Georgia
- Family of Florida Woman Killed by Alligator Sues Housing Complex for Negligence
- Are Some Florida Workers’ Comp Judges Bending to the Political Winds on Fees?
- Georgia Bill Would Require Wind-Mit Premium Discounts for Commercial Properties
- WV Supreme Court Denies Insurers’ Appeal in Chlorine Leak that Damaged Plant
- Small Plane Crash in Florida Everglades Kills 2
- Mississippi Businesses, Cities Sue to Protect Dolphins From Louisiana Spillway
- West Virginia Bill Would Allow Teachers to Carry Guns at School
- Witness Affidavit Not Needed Before ‘John Doe’ Auto Suit Filed – SC Supreme Court
- Mississippi Investment Firm Launches Insurance Agency
- 911 Call Shows What Happened When Young Man Entered Wrong House in SC
- Elderly Man Fatally Shoots Wife, Self at Florida Assisted Living Facility
- Disney Asks for Delay in Board’s Lawsuit Due to ‘Distracted District’
- Tennessee Chalks Another Drop in Workers’ Comp Loss Costs
- 3M Begins Payments to Service Members in $6B Earplug Settlement
- Alliant, BRP Announce People Moves in Southeast
- Florida Condos Say They Can’t Get Coverage. House Bill Would Let Citizens Step In
- Carolina Homeowners Give an Earful on Proposed 42% Average HO Rate Increase
- Broken Pipes in Memphis Cause Water Pressure, Supply Problems
- Florida to Borrow Billions to Backstop Insurers After Hurricanes
- Florida Senate Committee Adopts Litigation Funding Rules; Expands Wrongful Death
- Georgia Woman Wanted on Charges She Filed $45,000 in Faked Pet Insurance Claims
- Cold Weather Grips Lower US, Causing Dozens of Deaths
- Are Florida Insurance Premiums Hurting the Real Estate Market? Sales Down, Prices Up
- SC Roads Chief Retires, Praised for Disaster Response, Highway Improvements
- Online Rumors Partly to Blame for Water Pressure Drop in Jackson, Manager Says
- Class Actions Filed Over Builders Mutual, Progressive’s Own Data Breaches
- Medical Experts May be Needed, Even in Negligence Claims – Kentucky Supreme Court
- People Moves: Castle, Gray Named to Senior Posts at American Coastal
- 19 Dead, Hundreds of Auto Accidents from Ice Storm in Tennessee, Mississippi
- Alera Group Buys Med Mal Insurer CLS Healthcare Liability
- Georgia Saw Most Frozen-Pipe Claims in 2022-2023, State Farm Says
- Hedge Fund Fermat Has Best Year Ever as Catastrophe Bonds Deliver Record Results
- Tangram Enters Reinsurance Brokerage Market with SC-based Preferred Re
- State Farm Owes $2.6M to Florida, Court Says in Reading of ‘Dense’ Tax Code
- OSHA Fines Mississippi Poultry Plant $212,646 in Death of 16-year-old Worker
- Fla. Senate Panel Votes to Raise Citizens’ Policy Cap to $1M, End Glidepath for Some
- Allstate Doesn’t Owe for Diminished Value; Farm Bureau Barred from Subro, Courts Say
- Alabama’s Starke Agency Acquires University Insurance in Auburn
- US Supreme Court to Hear Case on Starbucks Firing Pro-Union Workers in Tennessee
- NTSB Investigating After High-Speed Rail Crashes Killed 3 People in Florida
- Former Finance Manager of WV Disaster Assistance Sentenced to 3 Years for Theft
- Alabama City Councilman Charged With Insurance Fraud
- Florida OIR Report Shows Indemnity Paid Was Much Higher for Litigated Claims
- Aging Population Could Be Left on the Coast as Sea Levels Rise, Study Shows
- People Moves: Alliant Names Hutchinson VP, One Call Appoints Burgess to Board
- Suspect Interviewed in Shooting of Bills Fan Outside Miami Stadium
- Judge Says Lawsuit vs. Parkland School Deputy Can Go to Trial
- Tennessee Launches Effort to Protect Songwriters and Singers from AI Mimickry
- Rokstone Launches Kentucky-based TPA for U.S. Agricultural Claims
- Carolina City Remorseful in $25M Settlement with Wrongfully Convicted Man
- Orion180 Expands Homeowners Insurance to Georgia and Indiana
- South Carolina Liquor Liability Market ‘Extremely Unprofitable,’ DOI Report Finds
- Progressive Files for 19.78% Auto Insurance Rate Increase in West Virginia
- At Least 4 Dead; Marina, Homes Destroyed as Storms Slash Through Southeast
- P&C People: XS Brokers Expands with Geiss, Kentucky Agents Name New EVP
- King Insurance Partners with Partners Insurance in Florida
- Tornadoes Rip Homes, Businesses in Florida Panhandle
- Update: How Loggerhead Moved to Snap Up 110,000+ Progressive Policies in Florida
- Customer Sues Dunkin Donuts Over ‘Exploding’ Toilet in Florida
- Affinity Hires Revenue Chief, NC DOI Elevates Counsel to Chief Operating Officer
- North Carolina Rate Bureau Wants 42% Hike in Residential Property Insurance Rates
- Florida Bills Would Provide Millions in Flood Mitigation, Elevation Grants
- FDA Allows Florida to Import Cheaper Drugs From Canada
- Georgia Awards $189M Bridge-Raising Contract to Allow Bigger Cargo Ships
- Florida Bad-Faith Suit Survives Even Though Policy Limits Paid and Sinkhole Excluded
- Gallatin Point Buys Majority Stake in American Family’s Florida Unit, Has National Plans
- NFL Star Receiver’s House Catches Fire in Miami
- Florida Labor Supplier Sentenced to 12 Months for Tax, WC Insurance Fraud
- Florida Bill Would Require Option of Policies That Cover Only Unpaid Mortgage Amount
- Alabama Wind Mitigation Grant Application Process Opens for Q1
- Judge Blocks Alabama Cannabis Licenses Amid Dispute Over Selection Process
- Army Corps Approves Massive Beach Renourishment for Jacksonville Area
- Man Charged After 2 Killed in Alabama Police Chase
- Georgia Man Charged with Depriving Liberty Mutual of $9M in Workers’ Comp Premiums
- Real Estate Firm Bids $4.9M for Campus of Bankrupt West Virginia College
- Brown & Brown Adds Caton-Hosey Agency in Florida
- Top Insurance Journal Florida Stories of 2023
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