Villages Health System Sees $350 Million in Medicare Overcharges July 9, 2025 A health-care system serving the largest retirement community in the US has filed for bankruptcy after disclosing it potentially overbilled...
Florida Taps Contractors With No Detention Experience for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ July 3, 2025 By Michael Smith, Sophie Alexander and Rachel Adams-Heard On June 20, nearly three weeks into the Atlantic hurricane season, Florida disaster-management officials assembled a group of emergency relief...
Founder of Florida Special Needs Trust and Accountant Indicted in $100M Theft June 25, 2025 By Jeff Martin Two Florida men, one a former life insurance broker, have been indicted in what prosecutors describe as a scheme to...
DeSantis Signs Law Making Florida 2nd State to Ban Fluoride From Water Systems May 16, 2025 By Stephany Matat and Kate Payne Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a measure Thursday prohibiting local governments from adding fluoride to their water systems, making...
Florida Store Owner Who Faked Death for Insurance Gets Sentence Commuted January 14, 2025 Floridians may remember the strange case of Jacksonville businessman Jose Lantigua, who faked his own death in 2013 in an...
Claims from Hurricane Milton Continue to Rise in Florida October 22, 2024 Almost two weeks after Hurricane Milton made landfall near Sarasota, Florida, as a Category 3 storm, claims and loss totals...
Asheville’s Dirty Water Warns of Climate Risk to Aging US Infrastructure October 18, 2024 By Kendra Pierre-Louis, Zahra Hirji and Michael Smith Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated swaths of the southeastern US by bringing too much water. Now, communities are struggling with...
Four More Charged in Staged Auto Accident Scheme in Miami May 29, 2024 Florida authorities have nailed another alleged accident-staging group, one that collected more than $50,000 in personal injury protection benefits from...
Four in Florida Charged with Faking Auto Accident Injuries to Gain PIP Payouts May 15, 2024 Florida authorities this week charged four people with falsifying injuries from an auto accident and attempting to defraud three insurance...
South Florida ‘Butt Lift’ Surgery Clinic Linked to 15 Drug-Resistant Bacteria Infections May 1, 2024 Florida and federal health officials have determined that 15 infections from drug-resistant bacteria have been linked to a south Florida...