Florida Man Charged With $159,000 in Fraudulent Insurance Claims July 17, 2026 By William Rabb A central Florida man who has been cited for numerous traffic violations and who was once sued by State Farm...
Florida Contractor Charged With Avoiding $1M in Workers’ Comp Premiums March 18, 2026 Florida authorities have charged a contractor with underreporting payroll and avoiding more than $1 million in workers’ compensation insurance premiums....
How One Fla. Insurance Agent Allegedly Used Another’s License to Swipe Commissions February 12, 2026 By William Rabb Imagine the surprise of being told by the Internal Revenue Service that you owe $116,000 in taxes on more than...
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...